By the work one knows the workmen.
Jean De La Fontaine
Colin Jones
Colin comes to 8th Light from Athens, Georgia, where he built web applications with Ruby on Rails and semantic XHTML/CSS. During his apprenticeship at 8th Light, he worked in Ruby, Java, Scheme, and Scala, and he learned test-driven development, along with numerous design patterns and techniques for improving code. He has blogged extensively about his software apprenticeship experience.
In August 2009, Colin will mentor software developers on a Rails project for non-profit group Mano a Mano at the Live Aid stage of the Agile 2009 conference in downtown Chicago.
Open Source
- tictactoe-scala: the classic game in Scala
- tictactoe-java: the classic game in Java
- keypressr: a typing game for programmers (web application using Merb)
Colin has also made small contributions to JRuby, Limelight, Rails Engines, and Wikimedia's Mobile Site (m.wikipedia.org)
Education
Colin received a Bachelor's Degree in Musical Arts and Mathematics from Vanderbilt University in 2002, and a Master's Degree in Trumpet Performance in 2004.