Haleigh DalkeChanging Careers During COVID-19In a matter of 6 months, I went from a professional dancer to having my first full-time job offer as a software engineer. I’m here to tell…Oct 9, 20201Oct 9, 20201
Haleigh Dalke“JokeBox” — a Ruby CLI AppCreating a simple Command Line Interface CRUD application using Ruby and ActiveRecord.Sep 2, 2020Sep 2, 2020
Haleigh DalkeSolving Programmatic Algorithms: “Counting Valleys”This post is intended to help prepare you for upcoming whiteboard interviews for your future employer, or (if you’re a nerd like me) for…Jul 29, 20201Jul 29, 20201
Haleigh DalkeRuby on Rails — “Poetry Mode”One of the great advantages of programming in Ruby is its resemblance to the English language. Ruby was designed to be intuitively read…Jul 14, 2020Jul 14, 2020
Haleigh DalkeActive Record ValidationsWhen I was first learning Ruby, I used a variety of if/else statements to “validate” user input and prevent breakage in my CLI…Jul 6, 2020Jul 6, 2020
Haleigh DalkeRuby Select vs. CollectWelcome to my first technical blog post! I’m going to discuss the Ruby Enumerable “select” and “collect.” I had a lot of trouble…Jun 18, 2020Jun 18, 2020