Jason Jackson

Austin, TX

JasonJackson.com

Age: 39

I am a software developer by trade but like many programmers it is also a hobby. My first program was written on a Commodore 64. In college I wrote C++, Fortran and a touch of Pascal.

I started my professional career doing web development before the bubble using ASP, PERL, Java and SQL. Over the years I have spent a lot of time programming for the web and the desktop.

Today I specialize in the Microsoft development stack. I currently utilize C#, SQL Server, ASP.Net, ASP.Net MVC, Silverlight, Javascript/CSS/HTML/jQuery. I also have recent experience with WPF/XAML, WCF, Silverlight, NUnit and WinForms.

Besides my Microsoft work life I use Mac at home and play with Cocoa, Ruby on Rails and MySQL. I enjoy travel and baseball. My wife and I have added the two hobbies together, and have seen games at 8 MLB parks, 1 spring training park and 3 minor league parks.

Apr
24
reviewed Reject suggested edit on managed C++ ref class
Apr
24
reviewed Approve suggested edit on Project Euler assignment 17
Apr
24
reviewed Approve suggested edit on Image upload and manipulation with codeigniter
Apr
24
reviewed Approve suggested edit on Getting data between values and greater than
Apr
24
reviewed Approve suggested edit on Irrlicht collision with an invisible mesh
Apr
19
reviewed Close Detaching all attached screens at once in linux
Apr
19
reviewed Leave Open Make shape pure with CSS with little cut off
Apr
19
reviewed Leave Open PHP Function to build a tree starting from specific node
Apr
19
awarded Custodian
Apr
19
reviewed Approve suggested edit on Where is the job support in Play 2.0?
Apr
19
revised Can Silverlight be linked with a C++ static library?
added 57 characters in body
Apr
3
awarded Guru
Mar
28
awarded Popular Question
Mar
28
awarded Popular Question
Mar
14
awarded Guru
Jan
15
comment Silverlight - how do I get the text of the selected item in a combobox
My answer is 3 years old. I haven't been in Silverlight for a while so it is plausible that Calanus's answer might work in the current version of Silverlight; I cannot comment on that. I don't think it did for rich combo box items like the one described here when I replied.
Dec
17
comment Check for column name in a SqlDataReader object
To anyone else confused, THIS DOES NOT WORK. See The answer below about retrieving the ColumnName row from the schema table and using it.
Oct
25
revised Mocking non-virtual methods in C#
to -> too
Oct
24
comment Find unit of AutoCAD attribute in C#
That is exactly what I needed. Thanks!
Oct
24
accepted Find unit of AutoCAD attribute in C#
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