Alisa Cookie McCormick


Becoming a Full Stack Developer

Milk Memo - Sinatra Project

For this project I had to think of something that is important to me, that I would enjoy making an app for. I had a few ideas in mind, I love food, but my previous CLI project was about food so what else…


What's up Docker?

Last week I went to my very first coding meetup with the Tampa Ruby Brigade. The topic of discussion was Docker for Ruby and Rails development. I have not reached the Rails portion of my lessons yet, but just wanted to attend to meet other people with the same interests and just to learn something new. You could say I was a little lost.


You Down with ORM (yeah you know me).

Now that I’ve got your attention, lets talk about ORM (Object-Relational Mapping). ORM is a technique that lets you query and operate on data in a relational database using object-oriented programming. ORM associates classes with database tables and instances of those classes with table rows. ORM is useful in that it cuts repetitious code and allows conventional patterns for constructing complex systems in an organized manner.


Santa's SQL Join Tables

Happy Holidays everyone! I thought it would be fun to explain SQL Join Tables in a jolly, merry way. This year, Santa is putting down his parchment list and checking it only once. He’s asked one of his elves to create a SQL (structured query language for managing data) database to keep track of the naughty and nice kids and their wishes. Santa will be able to see which kids should get presents, which presents they wished for and and also be able to see the most popular toys.


Serious Eats Recipes CLI

For my CLI Project I wanted to do something food related. I LOVE FOOD! My go-to site for any recipe is Serious Eats. They have the most amazing tasting foods. Seriously!