Dax Murray

Dax Murray

Washington, DC

I've been coding professionally for 4 years & love using treehouse to explore new technologies, level up in languages, and learn frameworks as I encounter bigger challenges. I am owned by 2 cats, love reading spec fiction, & playing my flute.

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Skills & Experience

  • Company

    [Private]

  • Job Title

    Software Engineer

  • Spoken Languages

    • Conversational Spanish

117 Achievements

  • Getting to Know Your Data
  • Introducing Data Analysis
  • AJAX Concepts
  • Shopping List App
  • Logic in Python
  • Python Data Types
  • Password Resets and Testing
  • Adding User Support to Our Application
  • Password Hashing and Sign-In
  • AR Extensions
  • Callbacks
  • Query Interface
  • Python For Beginners
  • Validation
  • Migrations and Relationships
  • Introduction to ActiveRecord
  • Securing and Maintaining a MySQL Database
  • SQL Calculating, Aggregating and Other Functions
  • Joining Relational Data Between Tables in SQL
  • Manipulating Schema with SQL
  • Installing Sass and Setting up the Project
  • Creating Tables and Manipulating Data with SQL
  • Understanding CSS Transitions and Transforms
  • Creating an SVG
  • Introduction to SVG
  • PHP Inheritance & Interfaces
  • PHP Properties & Methods
  • PHP Objects and Classes
  • PHP Internal Functions
  • PHP Returns & Closures
  • PHP Functions Basics
  • PHP Loops
  • PHP Conditionals
  • WordPress Plugin Best Practices
  • Widgets and Custom Menus
  • PHP Datatypes
  • PHP Data & Structure
  • PHP Getting Started
  • The Internet
  • WWW
  • Reading Data from Databases with SQL
  • Installing MySQL Server and MySQL Workbench
  • Introduction to Data, Databases and SQL
  • Build a Todo List Application with Rails 4
  • API Authentication
  • Coding the API
  • Route Connections
  • Introduction to REST
  • Custom Post Types and Fields
  • Customizing WordPress Themes
  • Installing Wordpress
  • Computer Languages
  • Computer Basics
  • WordPress Themes
  • Finding Good WordPress Plugins and Themes
  • Managing Comments on a WordPress Blog
  • Working with Media in WordPress Blogs
  • Posts and Pages in WordPress
  • Blogging with WordPress Overview
  • Getting Started with WordPress
  • Ruby Testing
  • Standard Library
  • Ruby Core
  • Ruby Modules
  • Building a Command Line Application
  • Introduction to Node.js
  • Traversing and Manipulating the DOM with JavaScript
  • Selecting Elements and Adding Events with JavaScript
  • JavaScript and the DOM
  • Introducing JavaScript
  • Ruby Procs & Lambdas
  • Ruby Blocks
  • Ruby Loops
  • Ruby Methods
  • Ruby Hashes
  • Ruby Arrays
  • Ruby Numbers
  • Ruby Strings
  • Objects, Classes, and Variables
  • Ruby Basics
  • Installing a Ruby Development Environment
  • Workflows
  • Working With Remote Repositories
  • Merging
  • Branches
  • Getting Started With Git
  • Why Version Control Matters
  • Installing Programs
  • Environment and Redirection
  • Console Processes
  • Console Users and Permission
  • Moving Around in the Console
  • JavaScript Objects
  • JavaScript Functions
  • JavaScript Arrays
  • JavaScript Numbers
  • JavaScript Strings
  • Introduction Variables
  • Ruby Methods
  • Ruby Numbers (Ruby Basics)
  • Ruby Strings (Ruby Basics)
  • How Ruby Works
  • Functions
  • Objects and Arrays
  • Control Structures
  • Basics
  • Debugging HTML and CSS Problems
  • Sharing a Website
  • Responsive Web Design and Testing
  • Adding Pages to a Website
  • Styling Web Pages and Navigation
  • Customizing Colors and Fonts
  • CSS: Cascading Style Sheets
  • Creating HTML Content
  • HTML First
  • Beginning HTML and CSS
  • Newbie