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Wow. It sure snowed on Friday. I regular storm. Most snow I have seen in Ikoma since moving here. (ever.).

cool. literally. But the snow was like slush. Super heavy and super wet. Just like a sushy drink back home in 7-11. Made my shoes wet. But it was pretty and fun.

It was a good thing I stayed indoors on Friday because it allowed me to get lots of work done. As I explored in [Status Being Monitored: Setting Up and Monitoring a New Server], having a productive day is essential for getting projects off the ground. This involves regularly monitoring your server to prevent crashes, which I wrote about in more detail in that post. And as a consequence, i also researched something new… a new server! Now I am working on using the nodejs server for my projects. I'm excited about the prospect of using Node.js, but I do need to learn more about it first. If you're also interested in learning new technologies, you might enjoy reading about my own journey from JavaScript to Node.js. This relates to what I discussed in [Coming Back: My Web Development Journey]. More on that later. Now, it is time for dinner.

Added later…

Back now after dinner and the kids are in bed. I am pretty happy with the node js server. It is actually quite complex. Unlike apache and nginx, you don’t install, configure and run it. It does very little if you do that. You have to build the server itself.. code it! But that is cool. I am finding out what it takes to make a server work. I am actually writing the http headers myself a bit!! wow! My server will now print a page, take input and then publish that input to another page in html format! Yay! I am pretty pleased with this. It is asynchronous so it should be able to approach real-time which is nice for some applications and reduce the amount of refresh and load new pages perhaps… although not entirely get rid of them. I'm finding that Node.js offers a more seamless experience than traditional methods like Ajax. Asynchronous programming is a key aspect of Node.js. If you want to learn more about this topic, building on ideas from [Under The Weather: Git and Web Development], be sure to check out some other resources or tutorials. Sort of like google docs. Anyway, time to quit.