Good morning! It is Sunday of the Thanksgiving Day 2020 weekend. Time seems to be passing by quite quickly. Earlier this morning I was reading an article regarding the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine. It seems that there are still some items that need to be addressed before that vaccine becomes readily available in the USA. Accordingly to the article, we should achieve herd immunity summer 2021. Let’s keep our fingers crossed. In addition there are many other laboratories that are about the same stage as Pfizer. It is safe and reasonable not to depend on a single source.
While I was about to finish editing this document and getting ready to post it, my wife called me to go grocery shopping to Trader Joe’s. On weekends, unless I get up earlier (around 04:00 AM), I typically have time to work on a single 2-hour block. I can extend the block if needed, but if I am doing something with my wife, that tends to put an end to work on that day. Continue reading “Nona’s Kitchen – JavaScript”
Hope you are having a nice day. Today is Tuesday. Unless I am mistaken, it has been three weeks since Election Day and as far as I know the results for the presidential election are still up in the air. Hopefully we will find out the results in the next few days.
I am about to call it a day. It is dark and cold (25 F) in the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul. I am in my office attempting to finish this post while my wife is upstairs in the living room wrapped in a blanket. Tomorrow morning we will wake up to a balmy 12 F. What else can I say?
It is another average fall day in the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul. It is sunny and cold. Two more days for the weekend; not that it matters because we are still in the COVID-19 pandemic. That said things appear to be getting better. Hopefully a vaccine will be available soon and we will all get into a new normal.
months ago, I will be working on a storage project for my blog. I will start with the APIs and database interface. I decided to use MongoDB for the metadata and the file system for the data. The server part code will be implemented using Node.js in JavaScript. After we have the base functionality we will split the software to work on multiple servers. Once that is done we will move to place the modules in Docker containers and will manage them with Kubernetes. Once all is well, I will see if we can move it to the Azure cloud. After that we will create and integrate additional features. 
Hope you are doing well. In the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul things appear to have gone back to normal. As far as I know looting and riots have stopped. There are talks about disbanding the Minneapolis police department. Not sure what liberals are thinking. No matter where you live, social rules and laws have to be enforced so people will follow them. The approach may vary, but force needs to be present. Hopefully it is there just as a deterrent.
would reach the Supreme Court. After a decision is made at the highest legal level, people responsible at all levels (i.e., judges, lawyers, union members, politicians, and police officers) should be held accountable and sent to prison if they have done something considered unlawful. Accountability will induce changes which will make groups like “Black Lives Matter” obsolete. Looting and riots do not help the cause of black people. It only aggravates it. Not only that, but the people that lives in the areas that were looted and burned down, now will experience higher prices in stores and shops and will have to travel longer distances to get their shopping done. Thanks looters and rioters! 
It has been over a week since my last post. A lot of things have happened besides COVID-19. As you might know I live in a suburb in the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul. I live in Dakota County. On May 24, 2020 the county had experienced 33 deaths due to the pandemic. Today is June 03, 2020 and the count is up to 59. The count is going up. It seems that a second wave has been forecasted by models for about June 15, 2020. As the rate things are going, I would not be surprised. 
In the past few days the temperature in the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul has been lower than average. The days have been cloudy and rainy. Today the sun might peak in the afternoon and the temperature will hopefully reach 55 F. On the positive side the forecast for Saturday is sunny and temperatures in the low 70s. Hopefully will be able to grill and spend a few hours outside walking.
It is a partly sunny Sunday in the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul. Currently I am waiting for my wife to get ready to go out for a walk. Yesterday it was cloudy and sprinkled on and off all day. Towards the end of the day it cleared up but we were not in the mood to walk given that we were watching movies at home.
Yesterday on snail mail I received a pin from the Red Cross. Apparently I have given blood 16 times so far. That adds up to two gallons of blood. Planning on continue to donate in the foreseeable future.
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I have been asked why I am dealing with RESTful services in JavaScript. My idea is to create a set of services that implement sets of APIs (e.g., DICOM storage server) using different programming languages (e.g., C#, Java, and JavaScript). Once that is done will decide on a single service implementation implemented using microservices written in different programming languages. The API for such RESTful server will be determined at the time. As you can see there is some logic behind this madness. If possible, I will then deploy the same set of microservices in a couple public platforms (e.g., AWS and Azure).