Linden / Olde Stage / Lee Hill Loop

Rode a 30 mile loop this morning. Took me 2:21 riding time. About 2:30 total time. Man I really suffer on Linden!


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Geax Saguaro

Well, my tubeless conversion experiment has come to an end. I've punctured two tires in the last two rides. The first was a Rampage on the front, sliced the sidewall at White Ranch. The second was a Geax Saguaro, punctured the tread on a tiny rock at Centennial Cone. This one was on the rear.

I think that I ride too "heavy" or something for tubeless on XC tires. Right now I guess I'll ride out the life of these tires using tubes and then maybe give some of the upcoming 2ply tires a try.

I do like the way tubeless tires ride, but the flats are a real PITA with goop spraying everywhere and then dirt getting glued to stuff while fixing the tire.

DQL and Folder Paths

I came across this blog entry on dm_notes. While what Rajendra posts will work, it is not the best choice for production use.

The problem with his query is that the _r tables are not automatically accessible to non-superuser accounts unless they are explicitly registered. And the problem with registering the repeating tables is that then users can see things that the Documentum ACL security would not normally allow them to see. This is a Bad Thing in production.

In Documentum 5, EMC introduced a DQL hint called ROW_BASED that allows us to circumvent the DM_QUERY2_E_REPEAT_TYPE_JOIN error. Essentially the ROW_BASED hint disables Documentum's normal repeating property validation and post-processing and allows all the query results to be returned by the RDBMS through the Documentum server. The following DQL does the same thing as Rajendra's query, but is subject to normal Docbase security and doesn't require any special setup:

SELECT doc.r_object_id, doc.object_name, fld.r_folder_path
FROM dm_document doc, dm_folder fld
WHERE
doc.i_folder_id = fld.r_object_id AND
fld.r_folder_path like '/System/%'
ENABLE(ROW_BASED, RETURN_TOP 10)

The RETURN_TOP hint is only there so the example query completes quickly. Note that both queries will return all locations where each document is linked. If you only want to know the first folder into which each document is linked, then add the following to the WHERE clause:

AND doc.i_position=-1 AND fld.i_position=-1

The i_position column can be used for other interesting queries, but that is a subject for a different post.

UPDATE: As long as I'm talking about "production ready" queries, I should point out that using r_folder_path LIKE '/System/%' is very slow since it forces a full-table-scan by the underlying database of the dm_folder_r table. It is better to use FOLDER('/System', descend) instead.

Recent Rides

Yesterday I rode the "Longest Wednesday of the Year" ride with Charlie et al at Golden Gate State Park. We parked at the Bridger (?) lot and rode Mountain Lion clockwise. Really fun ride, but super gnarly on the way down the switchbacks on the back side. I wimped out on 4 or 5 of the drops on the upper portion, but rode just about everything on the lower portion through the creek crossings. At about the 3rd from the end crossing, I went OTB and slammed the bike (and my body) pretty hard. The body will recover just fine, only bruises, but my El Rey has a tweaked derailleur hanger and a busted chain. We went to the Spot afterward, so I didn't get home until midnight. I was psyched to do that ride though it is a good mix of fear and exhilaration.

Single Speed ride at Betasso
Today I rode 2 laps of Betasso clockwise. It was pretty fun, but since I wrecked my El Rey yesterday I was on the singlespeed tank. I was starting to think I'm halfway in shape, but I am still a weakling when it comes to singlespeeding. I really struggled getting up the hills and feel like I might've slightly pulled my right hip flexor muscle. Somebody call the waaaambulance. Still debating what to do with the singlespeed. I guess I need to make it into a more versatile hardtail MTB since I don't have a working 2nd bike these days.

La Cruz Impressions

Well, I've had my Salsa La Cruz now for about 2 months and I've put a few hundred miles on it. I was responding to a thread on MTBR about the La Cruz and my response made a good start as a blog post.

I bought the 2008 La Cruz Complete, size 53. I've made the following changes:

• Shimano R700 Compact Crank 172.5 length 34/50 rings
• SRAM OG1070 11-28 cassette -- yes, I'm fat and weak. Actually, I have mixed feelings about this cassette. I find that I use the 12-25 cogs FAR more frequently than I actually use the 11 or the 28. 34/28 is too low to climb while standing, and I only use the 50/11 when descending and typically I'll spin out of that anyway above 35mph or so.
  
• Panaracer Pasela 700x35c Tires -- these are great tires. I am really impressed with their grip on gravel as well as pavement. When I'm riding dirt I inflate them to about 75-80psi and if I'm going to be onroad only, I pump them up to 95psi.
  

I bought the La Cruz to be my "road bike". I didn't want my first road bike to be a throwaway carbon prima donna, I wanted a steel, disc-brake road bike with which I could mostly hang with the group on training rides. It fulfills this purpose to a tee.

I don't think the La Cruz slows me down any until 22+ mph at which time the aero aspects of the relatively high bars and wide tires start to affect me. It is 3 or 4 lbs heavier than most of my buddies' bikes, but most of them are on Ultegra, so when you compare it to other 105-class bikes, it is really only about 2lbs heavier. Figure about a pound for the frame and a pound for the brakes, tires, saddle and stem. I'm 30-90 lbs heavier than the guys I ride with, so unless I sneak a motor onboard, they are going to be beat me uphill on any bike.

I ride mine all over the place, but my hands can't take the pounding on rough trails, so I pretty much stick to easy trails, fire roads and pavement. The bike rides great on everything, and I've even done a couple of (very) small drops and jumps just to see how it handles, and it was fine in that environment as well. With narrow handlebars and weight-forward positioning I won't be flying into any rock gardens, but I find that it has a very wide range of applicability for general riding.

It is a sweet riding frame, but not overly stiff. When I first got it, I found it a little bit flexy when climbing standing (I weigh 235), but I've gotten a bit smoother and have made my peace with it.

Scott Genius Tres Cher

I saw this on Velo News.

Scott's new full-carbon 150mm travel bike costs $11,500!

Seems pretty insane, although that is for a 23.4 lb build.

Running

I am reminded why I don't run (or why I should run more often). Yesterday I ran for 35 minutes from the hotel down to the embarcadaro and back. I guess about 3 miles. Not only am I slow, today my quads and calves are sore. Biking is a lot easier.

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MS Office 2007 and marklogic 4

"Dynamic Enterprise Publishing"

ML4 has a Plugin for word that understands ooxml and supports apis.
Content enrichment
CPF pipeline automatically ingests ooxml as native XML
Interoperation with CMS tools

ML4 integrated with SharePoint
Mirroring+ DLL
One way mirror with SP master

Workflow DLL
ML activity library CRUD.

Early Access Program exists now.

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MarkLogic Keynote Address

(I originally took notes on my BlackBerry, which is not an ideal note taking device. I'm going back through and updating the notes to make them more usable for the future.)

This was the initial KeyNote presentation, the initial speaker was Andy Feit, but he was quickly replaced on stage by Dave Kellogg and finally by Ron Avuner

Keynotes cover the market, product, enterprise aspects of using MarkLogic

Later there are panels that will supply a more interactive venue for discussions about agile development, user generated content, and interviews with MarkLogic directors.

Use the Blog tag MLUC08 when posting blogs about the user conference to make them easeir to find.

If you're a Twitter user, use #MLUC08 as the tag.

Dave will be blogging and twittering during the conference as will many other MarkLogic employees.

The MarkLogic User Blog is available at http://ucblog.marklogic.com

Dave Kellogg's History:

In the past he had lots of experience with RDBMS, employee of Ingress. Now has 4 years at MarkLogic.

Unlock Content

Mashup of database and search engine.

MarkLogic in 3 words: Big Fast Xquery

Content is not data because there is no fixed structure.

Customers reflect todays usage of xml

Dave expects to see a huge increase in the market for XML and XML databases with the introduction of Microsoft Office XML and the standardization of OOXML.

Andy Feit and Ron AvMur

ML 4

Authoring is changing:

• User generated
• Business process
• Content explosion
• Get to it / Get it to me
• Real content applications
• Medical apps
  

MarkLogic Version 4.0

• Disclaimer no features are guaranteed to be there, some changes are expected, nothing officially decided yet, etc.
• Early access now for partners
• Expected to be released in 3Q08
• Easier content load
• 4 automatically deconstructs Ms Office documents
• Entity enrichment - licensed with a single vendor now, but pluggable.
• More ways to query
• Automatically process xinclude
• Alert function layered arch. Subscriptions
  

Analytics:

• Heat maps
• Finding pattens
• Composability
• Geospatial
  

Security

• Auditing
• CCSC (Government certification)
  

Automation

• All admin is scriptable

MS Office / Sharepoint CMS

• Dynamic enterprise publishing
• Light workflow
• Mirror content
• Making word into an XML authoring CMS
• JSR170
  

Faster app development:

• Shipped UI
• Quickstarts
• Content aggregation
• RSS
  

MarkLogic After Version 4

• Other authoring environments
• Languages
• Delivery SAN \ virtual
• Trending
  

MarkLogic User Conference

I'm heading to the MarkLogic User Conference today. Will be attending both the One Day Server Class and the Technical Track during the conference.

I was reading this thread on MTBR and came across the concept of balance bikes. Very cool.

I want to get my nephew a Strider Bike for his birthday... need to double-check with his mom though.

June 2nd.

This was the epic day. Riding from Hanksville to Boulder and trying to have at least some fun riding was our goal. Ultimately, I think we made some poor choices and the ride ended up taking all day. I was on the road from 8am until 10:30pm. I got kinda tired and grumpy as the heat and time-in-the-saddle took its toll. Thanks go to Casey for staying flexible and pleasant despite my grouchiness.

Traffic and construction on US550 and over McClure Pass and from Carbondale to Glenwood ended up delaying us by at least an hour.

The route according to Google Maps is about 12:30 hours, so we really made fairly decent time overall. It would've been good for me to spend more time thinking it through before we chose a route.

I learned my lesson though and will be more careful when trying to avoid I-70 in the future.

June 1st.

We decided that we'd check out of the hotel and skip the last race on Sunday to head south. We didn't have a preplanned route for the rest of the trip, but we knew that we wanted to go south.

We left after the 2nd AMA Superbike Race, at about 3:30pm.

The route ended up being pretty fun, but we didn't get to Hanksville until sunset. It was sad to have ridden so quickly through Capitol Reef. It was a gorgeous ride with the sun behind us. Mark narrowly avoided running over a rattlesnake soaking up the last rays of the sun on the road. His reaction was very good and I'm not sure I would've reacted as well. There is always improvement possible as a rider.

May 31st.

On Saturday we went to the AMA Superbike Races at Miller Motorsports Park. The park is about 4 years old and very nice. Saturday we left early and spent the whole day there. About 10am until 6pm. I got a bit sunburned since it was hot and sunny. Lots of cool bikes and such. I'll type up some more thoughts about the races if I get some more time.

The route was pretty simple, we didn't do any extra riding.

May 30th route.

On Friday we rode from Vernal to the Sleep Inn in West Lake City (Salt Lake City). This was the best day of riding in my opinion. I had finally scrubbed in the new Pilot Power 2CT tires on the ZX-14 and I really had to hustle to (almost) keep up with Mark on his Tuono.

Willy had to go home, but he rode with us up to the Dutch John turn-off in Flaming Gorge.

We saw a bunch of deer and elk. There was still tons of snow along Ogden River Road. We even saw some snowmobilers at the top of the pass.

I will have to go back and ride this route again. Fantastic riding, even on Ogden River Road which had been recently chip-sealed and was scary to ride aggressively.

Got a very few pictures, will have to upload them eventually.

Link to the Google Maps Route. Note that this route is not exactly the way we came, but close to it. We got sorta lost in SLC and went the long-way around on 215. Next time I want to try the Emigrant Canyon, but we were too tired to do another canyon section.

(Edited with the actual route we took near Morgan. Thanks for the correct, Marc!)

May 29th route from my house to the Motel 6 in Vernal Utah.

Rode with Casey and Willy. Ended up going about 400 miles due to some inefficiencies in our actual driving.

Really fun riding. Willy is a madman on his K1200!

Vernal is clearly a Mormon town. It was hard to find a restaurant that served beer. We finally ended up walking all the way (about 3 miles) to the BrewHouse on the west end of town.

It was pretty good although quite a dive. I've been spoiled by the gentile town of Moab, much easier to find sinful delights there than most small towns in Utah. We had 3 pitchers of beer between the 4 of us and nobody felt anything, typical old-school <3.2% Utah beer.

Link to the Google Maps Route.

Today I got a notice from Kawasaki that there is a frame inspection/recall active against my ZX-14 VIN. This is after riding my ZX-14 1,700 miles in the last 5 days. Including in some "life-threatening" situations.

I also found out that the failure-mode is a rear swingarm main pivot failure that often occurs in the 3-4k mile range. I now have 4,200 miles on my bike.

So I'm a little freaked out.

Colorado Powersports can only get me in next week, so I guess I'm done riding for a while.

The recall affects most 2006 and 2007 ZX-14 motorcycles. I checked my VIN using the form on Kawasaki's web site (I had to disable AdBlock Plus to get the form to load correctly.)