Jason Olson

As I’ve been writing more F# code and learning more about the F# language, I have found myself intrigued by how some surprisingly simple language features…

In this first stage of our Tour de BCL, we will be passing through the new Barrier class. So what is a Barrier? Let’s take a look at the ~boring~…

In this post I want to discuss with you the importance of realizing how lambdas work (and why you should care). Let's dive right in with some code.

\Crosspost from [ManagedWorld\] Rob Atkinson some screenshots from a new tool from NeoSmart called EasyBCD. What is EasyBCD? Directly from the horse's…

\Crosspost from [Managed World\] As I've mentioned in a previous article, I was annoyed with Visual Studio.NET 2002/2003 and the fact that you can't…

\[Update: Adam Ulrich (the hiring manager I actually interviewed with) actually posted another good piece of advice. I have now included it below.\]

The Professional Life of a Game Developer? A friend pointed me to this link, which is a letter posted by a spouse of an Electronic Arts employee. Seeing…

I don't know how this one escaped my attention. In Whidbey, there is a new window that you can dock in your IDE. It is called “System Window” and you can…

30.96647% - Total Geek Yeah, I'm a Total Geek. I think the Geek Test (link via Rai) is flawed though. First of all, it asks many questions that pertain…

The One With The Game Loop When building any game, you always start out writing the “Game Loop”. If all the game data was the blood of our game, the game…

Well, VSStyler is now ready for download. It is an add-in into Visual Studio.NET 2003 that allows you to save font and color settings into “styles”. This…

I ran across a nice little Com Interop “gotcha” when I was working with Excel automation from C# today. I'm sure that a lot of you with more COM Interop…