Sinatra Project

Keep It Simple Stupid, and “Kiss Me Again.” — Sinatra is a free and open source software web application library and domain-specific language (DSL) written in Ruby. My introduction to it was my first opportunity to take a need within my immediate community and channel that into a web application. This blog post is a followup to the original…

This project is structured around the concept an anime belonging to a studio. The frontend is created with React while the backend is created with Sinatra and Active Record. The goal was to create a web basic API with Sinatra and Active Record to support a React frontend. In the…

For my Sinatra project I decided to create an application for a local brewery that I frequent. The breweries name is Cloudburst, and they release a handful of unique beers every month to a rotating roster of beers both, light and dark, most of which are never to be seen…

Introduction The most difficult part of almost any project is starting. It is easy to get overwhelmed with all of the things you have to do, from deciding what you want to create to planning the execution. As a beginner developer, the last thing you want is all of your momentum…

This is a blog from when I was creating my first Sinatra app: I have been challenged to make a Sinatra app which the following requirements: Build an MVC (Links to an external site.) Sinatra application. Use ActiveRecord (Links to an external site.) with Sinatra. Use multiple models. Use at…

Choose a Domain You Care About While I had a very concrete idea of what I wanted to do going into my CLI app, when it came time to nail down a topic/prompt to build around for this project, it was quite the opposite. I found it challenging to come up with an idea that centered…

This post was originally written in January 2021 during my time at Flatiron School Being a reader is just as much about buying books as it is about actually reading them. I have shelves of books sitting in my apartment unread, and still I find myself searching through bookstore.org to…

So here I am, trying to promote my coding skills to the world mostly via my portfolio site, http://www.christopher-dent.com. I’ve got all of my Flatiron School projects on display — all of them deployed, live and ready to demo. I’ve spent a lot of time since graduation trying to learn…

Accomplishing a degree and overcoming another Project. At the beginning of project week I was so far behind, in labs, and with trying to finish off my college degree. A week and a half into project week I was able to complete my last two class at college scoring an…