Frequently Asked Questions

What languages do you program in?

In school I did projects with lots of languages: Java, C++, XML, Javascript, LISP, R, MatLab, Python, PHP, Assembly Language, HTML, CSS, SQL, and many of the accompanying frameworks.

I graduated from university in 2016 and have been working for a consulting company working with integration and data services for our clients (which means I work with whatever technologies our clients need us to)

Through these projects I've spent a lot of time with Javascript frameworks AngularJs, Angular 4, Typescript, Scala (a lot of Scala), Java, SQL, and integrating with third party APIs (like AWS, Fortigate, Veeam, etc.)

What kind of a developer are you?

Can you help me with my development project?

I want to be a programmer, do you have any advice for me?

Would you be willing to write something up for my blog?

Your @JonesDoesLife Instagram is about being a developer, why don’t you blog about development more?

To be totally candid: I do development for 40+ hours a week and the last thing I want to do is go home and write blogs about it (also, there are a million other people doing that and technology changes so fast it'd be a lot of work to keep up with it).

You'll notice that my Instagram handle is @JonesDoesLife (not @JonesCodes or @DeveloperGirl) and that is 100% intentional. People are more than their jobs, and I am more than just a developer, even if most of what I share is related to development.

My blog focuses on social gamification: figuring out how to "win" at platforms that have ranking systems and the psychology behind getting there. It focuses on that because that's the kind of stuff I enjoy doing in my free time (much like I enjoy gardening and reading); it was a complete accident that my Instagram ended up being about what I do for work.

Software developer and coffee enthusiast. Raised in Alaska, working in Dallas.

I graduated from Southern Methodist University in 2016 with a B.S. in Computer Science and a B.A. in Psychology. I work for a pretty cool consulting company that hired me out of college to be a part of their Integration and Data Services team (aka I'm a Software Developer), and I couldn't imagine being anywhere else.

Since the stress of work pales compared to the stress of taking 19-24 hours of classes a semester, I've taken it upon myself to create mini-projects for myself that involve data mining, photography, and social gamification (and cute animals). If you're interested in any of those things you can read about the strategies here, or you can follow me on Instagram and watch the experiments in action (@jonesdoeslife or @zoraflorasays).