2 Wheel Zeal

WaltWorks 29er

2010-06-17T14:50:00.002-06:00

Got a new bike, a custom Walt Works 29er. See Walt's website for more info.

Rode it on Rabbit Mountain yesterday. First ride was pretty uneventful. Still working out the climbing technique since it is a lot different from my other bikes. Probably will take a couple weeks to be truly comfortable climbing of course. You were correct that Rabbit Mountain felt about like a bike-path.

Descending felt pretty comfortable. The Marz fork has a much different feel from the RockShox. I've heard it described as having a lot of sticktion, but really it feels to me more like there is a preload type of threshold and then it moves pretty easily. No platform to speak of though so I need to put "too much" air into it for climbing then get no travel on the descent. Settled on ~40% of body weight for air pressure in the fork. Makes standing climbing kinda suck, but hey, that isn't this bike's style anyway. I have the rebound set 1 click in from full-fast which seemed about right on the rocks at Rabbit.

RP23 is at ~260lbs (110% of body weight.) and it felt pretty good climbing. I can't really remember how it compares to the El Rey, but I think it is a bit more active under pedaling and does sink into the travel a bit more. Bob isn't bad with the RP3 in ProPedal, but it does hunker more than I'd like in granny (to be expected given the axle-path). I may bump the pressure up 10psi or so today. My initial sag settings were done without a loaded camelbak. I sent an email to the "dirtlabs" guy, Mike Luebesmier to ask about tuning advice. Hoping I can increase the low-speed compression damping a bit. Rebound is set to 3 clicks from full-fast. I tried 4 clicks in and it seemed a tad slow to react.

Still working out how I feel about the custom geometry. It is a lot shorter top-tube than any bike I've ridden, and it seems to fit well based on my lack of flexibility and such. However, I still feel like I'm a little too forward in the saddle. Moved it back about 3/4 of the rails (1/3 inch?) and that helped a lot. Might push it back even further today depending on how I feel after the climb up Belcher Hill.

2010-01-16T17:48:00.002-07:00

Sizing info for Walt

Tweaks to the Trek

2009-07-11T18:32:00.003-06:00

Well, after 100 miles or so on the new/old Trek, I like it pretty well. I needed to install a lower gear, a 39 front, to make it up the hills around Boulder. I finally decided that the 20 year old Shimano 600 derailleur had lived a long life but it needed to go. So I grabbed my NOS Shimano XTR 952 mid-cage and installed it along with a new 9 speed chain. The new chain worked pretty well with the 8 speed front rings and 7 of the cogs on the 8 speed rear cassette. Annoyingly the inner links were hanging up on the 11 cog, causing skips and pops. No good, so I spent 10 minutes shaving the teeth on the 11 cog to be narrower. Now it is perfect. I think it shifts quicker, more precisely and is quieter now.

Now I'm a happy "fred" with my 20 year old bike loaded up with mismatched parts, unravelling bar tape and a set-back seat post.

New Bike -- Sort of ...

2009-05-30T19:19:00.003-06:00

Took Bryan's old Trek 5200 out for its inaugural ride under my tuchus today. Pretty good ride with a few friends. Rode from Gunbarrel out to Hwy36 and North to Lyons where we hit the fruit loops, then back to Lefthand and over Lee Hill. The Trek is an old soldier of a bike, but with some new-old wheels and new-old tires from Glen along with my old 8 speed Shimano XT cassette, it worked pretty nicely.

52 miles and 3100 feet of climbing.

maven profiles.xml

2009-05-14T08:47:00.006-06:00

Just solved a problem with maven and profiles.xml. The documentation says that the profiles.xml file uses the exact format as the <profiles> element in pom.xml, but this isn't quite true. The <profiles> element is needed, but the documentation neglects to point out that you need to wrap the <profiles> element with a <profilesXml> root element.


<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<profilesXml>
  <profiles>
    <profile>
      <!-- This profile is used by default -->
      <id>default-profile</id>
      <activation>
        <activeByDefault>true</activeByDefault>
      </activation>
      <properties>
        <webapp.port>9090</webapp.port>
        <webapp.admin.port>9999</webapp.admin.port>
      </properties>
    </profile>
  </profiles>
</profilesXml>

VMware Guest Performance with x64 host

2009-02-05T20:25:00.002-07:00

Been running into a confusing problem with slow performance under VMware Workstation 6.5.0 with a Vista x64 host on my new laptop.

I keep thinking it has something to do with PAE and 32 bit guests, but I haven't been able to pin it down. Messing with the boot.ini to disable PAE seems to help sometimes, but I think it is the placebo effect. No information found despite extensive searching in Google and on the vmware forums.

Social Network

2009-01-08T23:16:00.002-07:00

I am now occasionally twittering and I set up a facebook account too. I guess that means I'll try to blog more substantial article like items and leave the painfully trivial to those venues.

Trainer

2009-01-08T23:10:00.003-07:00

Bought a Kurt Kinetics "Road Machine" trainer. So far am pretty happy with it. Karen set up her bike on it and has been spinning a few times. With the Continental "home trainer" tire on it it is quiet enough that we only have to turn the TV up a bit.

It is very stable and not too hard to move around. I don't know if we really needed a mat, but just to be safe we picked up a 4 x 6 throw rug from Ross for $20. I do not understand why the bike shops sell crappy 3.5 x 6 rubber mats for $50... well, maybe I should say that I don't understand why people buy $50 rubber mats when they can get more durable and less ugly mats from Ross for $30 less.

I am a bit annoyed by the trainer tire though. It was the most difficult tire to mount that I think I've ever encountered. Full on steel-bead UST Downhill tires are easier. Guess I need to track down a cheap/free rear wheel so we can swap back and forth.

Bar thoughts

2008-12-28T21:14:00.002-07:00

I haven't been riding much lately, so naturally, my thoughts turn toward the materialistic aspects of cycling. I ran across the Modolo Gran Fondo handlebars recently, and I'm thinking that they might be a good choice for my La Cruz. The bars have a fair amount of rearward offset that should allow the use of a slightly longer stem. They certainly are ugly by most bike snob standards. Here are a few pics from eBay and one from a German review.

Most likely I won't buy them, but it is a tempting thought.

Recuperation

2008-12-26T13:02:00.002-07:00

Well, I'm almost recovered from my Christmas of overeating. Yesterday had a Thanksgiving-style meal with my folks for Lunch and then went over to a friends for another huge meal of pork tenderloin and fixings for dinner.

Today is a day for watching Tivo'd Narnia and digesting yesterday's gluttony.

Happy Holidays! It is wonderful to be able to be a sloth now and again.

Flex E4X

2008-12-16T17:11:00.003-07:00

Working on a project with Adobe Flex / ActionScript 3 and was really struggling with XML namespaces... turns out there is a great blog that really helped me out understanding namespaces in AS3 as well as XML handling in AS3 in general.

Big Quads

2008-09-12T02:54:00.003-06:00

I was doing my nightly way-too-much-surfing session and ran across Beth Bikes! blog and that got me thinking about quad sizes (since she is OCD about measuring and commenting on her quads.)

That led me to searching for big quads, which led me to A Year in Hell and finally to a podium picture of the winning team from the World Track Cycling Championships last March. One of the winners, Gregory Bauge has 69cm quads.

All this quad surfing got me to jump on the quad measuring bandwagon. Mine are 71cm. Sadly I have a bunch of quad fat while Gregory has approximately zero.

But at least I have a plausible objective reason why I seem to break rear hubs with painful regularity.

Rename Windows Host on Oracle 10g

2008-09-04T16:17:00.002-06:00

I just ran across this awesome blog entry detailing how to rename a Windows Host with Oracle 10g and keep everything working. I've been looking for something like this off and on for a while, but generally, I've just lived with a broken Oracle Console.

One comment, I had an error when running the repository drop program. It couldn't delete a folder because a process had it locked. I used SysInternals procexp to find the offending process, kill it and then reran the emca command and it finished cleaning up OK.

MotionBased Elevation

2008-08-19T07:11:00.002-06:00

I was just looking at the Walker Ranch profile on Motion Based and was checking out their MB Gravity option which uses Earth elevation maps to estimate elevation changes instead of using unit elevation. They claim that their elevation model is better than GPS elevation but worse than barometric adjusted elevation.

That would explain my results, since the official elevation change at Walker is 1720ft and my Edge 705 shows 1688ft. The "MB Gravity" shows over 2000ft for the same track.

Last few rides

2008-08-18T22:54:00.003-06:00

Glen was interested in the cyclocross ride Mike, Bryan and I did last week as well as the road ride Ed and I did yesterday.

Also, George and I rode Walker Ranch today and we did it CCW in decent time (1:11 moving, 1:24 clock). It was in really nice shape, not muddy, but just enough moisture for good traction. I rode the whole way from the river up Columbine Gulch with only 1 dab on the V rocks about 1/3 of the way up.

Top 100 Words in English

2008-08-08T19:48:00.001-06:00

Do you think you know the most common 100 words in English? Try this quiz to find out. I only got 38. Karen, who is wordier than me, got 42.

Kenosha Pass Ride

2008-08-04T22:53:00.005-06:00

On Sunday rode Kenosha Pass. What a great ride. 5 hours of singletrack. Painful climbs and thrilling descents. We left a reasonable amount of blood on the trail as a donation to the trail gods. Ride profile is up on Motion Based.

Inexpensive Entry to DITA authoring and publishing

2008-07-28T14:49:00.003-06:00

Very interesting article about how to leverage free and open-source tools to create a low-cost yet functional DITA based XML authoring and publishing system.

I've been thinking about setting something up along these lines for a while, but have just never gotten the ambition.

Interesting Articles

2008-07-28T14:39:00.002-06:00

I've been using Google Reader on my BlackBerry. Whenever I come across a particularly interesting article, I click "Share" in the reader. This will place the shared links onto my Interesting Articles link. This way I can point out interesting articles without the overhead of typing up a blog post. Laziness wins yet again.

Blog Templates

2008-07-25T02:52:00.000-06:00

Finally found a non-ugly fluid template... I liked the previous template better, but I hate fixed width layouts, so I guess this will have to do until I get the ambition to roll-my own design.

Recent Rides

2008-07-25T02:23:00.000-06:00

In the last 2 weeks since I got my Garmin 705, I've ridden the following:
7/24: Centennial Cone: 12.33 miles / 1700 ft / 1h55m
7/23: Heil Ranch out Wild Turkey, back on the main trail: 9.48 miles / 1277 ft / 1h25m
7/21: Chimney Gulch with a trip back to the car for a new rear wheel: 7.27 miles / 1700 ft / 1h54m
7/17: Walker Ranch (missing about 1.5 miles): 6.64 miles / 1523 ft / 1h46m
7/16: Blue Dot / Red & Yellow Dots: 12.52 miles / 1650 ft / 2h27m
7/14: Jamestown Forest Exploration: 14.1 miles / 2100 ft / 2h37m
7/13: Tour de Bike Paths: 22.8 miles / 762 ft / 1h53m
7/12: Triple Bypass: 120.7 miles / 10200 ft / 10h59m

All rides are total elapsed time. On the Triple I had auto-stop enabled, so I also know my total moving time which was 8h53m.

I can't decide whether I like autostop or not. Ultimately, I guess I want to know the total time as that is more important for future planning. It also makes an annoying beep every time it auto stops or starts, so I guess I'll leave it off for now.

Documentum 6.5 New Features

2008-07-23T11:29:00.001-06:00

I attended some of the Interactive Content Management webinar today. D6.5 is still scheduled for July 31st.

CTS

Real-time (synchronous) invocation
New transformations included
DOES NOT include any new Adobe capabilities yet (Version 7 will include updates)
In the future, EMC intends to supply a transform that will convert many vector formats into a Flash-based lightweight vector format so the typical web user can view vector graphics without a special plug-in.

XTS

Bundles new DITA targets out-of-the-box using DITA OT 1.4.1 (1.4.2 coming with D6.5SP1)
DITA bookmap, etc.

Site Caching / Delivery Services

SDS is end-of-life due to Marimba licensing issues
In D6.5 major change is that SCS can publish to a standalone XHive store (no plugin for MarkLogic)
Web Service enhancement allows two-way interaction, i.e., user-supplied content can be sucked into the repository. Optionally a workflow may be launched based on this "repatriated" content to control ingestion.
EMC will rewrite the SDS functionality for D7

Digital Asset Management

DAM client has bugfixes, not much new functionality, still based on WDK
Storyboard enhancements / video sub-clips can be manually extracted
Loupe tool can run through firewall
Launch MediaSpace directly from DAM targeting a specific folder

MediaSpace (Media Workspace)

Moving towards a DAM Replacement
Not all functionality will be available in D6.5 vs. DAM (new product)
No additional license required beyond DAM 6.5
Adobe Flex rich interface
Target the Everyday consumer / contributor
Visually Appealing and low learning curve
Componentized "Flex Miniapp" is the architectural model
Interacts with repository via DFS (Unclear if DFC is still in the mix from the client-side)
Built in Digital Asset approval process (workflow), not sure if this is fully configurable/customizable yet.
Launch DAM directly from MediaSpace targeting a specific folder
Launch OS Explorer / Finder into a File-Share-Services exposed repository folder

Media WorkSpace Pro

Additional Cost, advanced tool for viewing, annotating and modifying content
Integrated with WCM so can target Wiki and Blogs

Media WorkSpace Marketing Edition

Built on top of Media WorkSpace Pro
Solution to provide a leg-up for building a Marketing campaign
Quick publish to various channels
Analytics
Offer composer
Dashboard (maybe based on workflow?)

AIS: Authoring Integration Services

FSS: File Share Services
FTP: FTP Services
WebDAV services
Feature set of FTP and WebDAV are similar to prior releases
Focus on FSS
OS Level Access to Explorer / Finder as a network file share
Plugins for InDesign and Quark to support compound documents
Scalability, WAN and Firewall enhancements
Better integration and user-adoption by being more hidden
Can prompt the user for synchronous / asynchronous interaction
D7 intends to support triggers so the files can be immediately committed back ALA eRoom plugin.
AutoUpdate can upgrade FSS clients on login to simplify deployment
Certified to work with RPS / Records Manager
Macintosh OSX 10.5

FSS 6.5 SDK

Expose Repository services such as version history and renditions
Custom context menus in Explorer/Finder
Replace dialogs to customize Import / Checkin / Properties dialogs
System Tray menu customizations
Scheduled Commit
Leverage the client-side cache

FSS Roadmap (D7)

6.5sp1: My Documentum (FSS+offline+appConnectors)
Center Stage Integration (triggers, etc.)
Silent Login / SSO
Clustering / HA
Tighter Windows Integration, .net client, etc. (no Java runtime needed)

In the future other clients such as Knowledge Worker and Center Stage will be able to embed the various WorkSpace clients.

For D7, the Task/Media/Work/Space products will interoperate and transparently hand-off to each other. E.g., you won't have to logon to TaskSpace to perform workflows and then go back to MediaSpace to view Videos. Sounds like in D6.5 the products are not all that integrated.

Very interesting development in aging research

2008-07-22T11:28:00.001-06:00

Some research into forcing the body to go into caloric restriction mode which could delay aging.

Hat tip to Instapundit for the link.

Twos Complement Worksheet

2008-07-22T10:26:00.000-06:00

I recently was doing some testing on some UTF8 character conversion code and since Java does not have any unsigned byte datatypes, it was quite a pain to get UTF8 expansions recoded as signed bytes for the test. I couldn't find anything online that would take a signed byte and return the decimal value of the same bit-pattern as an unsigned. So I wrote this really hacky Google Docs spreadsheet to help myself. Probably there are 1000 better ways to do it, but this is at least a very explicit implementation that shows exactly how the process works.

Broken XT Cassette

2008-07-21T23:37:00.000-06:00

Today I rode Chimney Gulch and after taking it easy for 3 days, I was feeling really good. Sadly, about 1/4 of the way up while powering (or slogging) up a particularly tricky rock section, my cassette failed. The whole affair got twisted partially into the spokes and so I couldn't coast or pedal. My riding companion, Kevin, had the idea to take the chain off so I could coast back to the car. Great idea! I had a fairly uneventful ride back to the car, where I had luckily stashed a spare wheel. So I mounted that wheel up and headed back up the hill.

The reason that I had a second wheel in the car was that this morning I was running late, as usual, but I wanted to ride my All Mountain-ish wheelset instead of the XC-ish ones. I'll digress into an explanation of my 2 current wheelsets on my Ventana El Rey.

The XC wheelset consists of 32 hole Stan's Flow rims laced to a Chris King ISO rear and a Hope Pro II front hub. My 2nd wheelset is 36 hole Sun Rhyno Lites laced 3X to Hope Pro II hubs front and rear. The Rhyno Lites are noticeably stiffer, but also nearly 200 grams heavier per wheel than the Flows, so I tend to put lighter tires on the Flows. Anyway, I'd worn out my heavier duty tires last year and so this year I've been running lightish tires. Recently I've been getting lots of flats and I'm not happy about it. For a while I was running a Saguro in the front and a Kenda Small Block 8 in the back, but the SB8 was just way too light and I could never get any confidence in it. So I put a Rampage on the front and the Saguaro on the back. I have been disappointed by the Saguaro. Running it in the "Speed" direction it spins out easily, pinch flats easily, and has some really annoying tread squirm to it that does not inspire confidence. I will switch it to "Traction" direction and hope for the best.

Anyway, I was fed up with the XC wheels and as I've been getting stronger lately, I've been feeling the limitations of the lighter wheels both climbing and descending. Today was going to be the day for the heavy duty tires (not that any 29er tires are truly heavy duty. Yet.) So as I ran out of the house this morning, I put the Rhyno Lite on the front, but just threw the rear in the back of the Forester and headed to work.

Due to generalized laziness, the rear AM wheel was not 100% setup correctly. Basically, since I'm 225+ lbs and I like to climb up steep hills, I break stuff. The most recent destruction was in the form of a blown-up Hope freehub. I have 2 warranty replacements, one aluminum and one stainless-steel, but the (weaker) aluminium was installed since I got it first. And since I know that the aluminum freehubs will not survive long under max torque, I purposely had installed an old 11-32 cassette instead of my preferred 11-34. My original plan had been to install the stainless steel freehub and an 11-34 cassette at lunch or at the trailhead before the rest of the crew showed up. Unfortunately, my brain was not fully engaged this morning, and I forgot to bring the stainless freehub.

Thus, I ended up riding Chimney Gulch with an old cassette, and I payed the price. It was a previous generation Shimano XT 11-32 cassette with 4 arms. It looks like one of the aluminum arms failed and then the rest of the cog folded and cracked 2 of the other arms.

Anyway, the ride was pretty entertaining overall and I got a rare chance to compare two tires back-to-back with most of the other variables being constant. I started the ride on a Kenda Nevegal 2.2 @ 40psi and I was loving that tire all the way up Chimney Gulch. Very planted feel, good grip, rewards aggressive efforts without spinning out, I can just dig push as hard as possible and trust that the tire will transmit all the power into the dust and loose rocks.

In contrast, the second climb was on a Saguaro pumped up to about 35. Gawd it was painful after riding the Nevegal. It spun out on every water bar, the tire folded and slid out on every rut and the sidewall collapsed over every rock making the ride seem like a constant threat of pinch flatting or just spinning out the entire way up. Finally I stopped for a few minutes and added 100 pump-strokes from my topeak minipump which improved the feel, but not the traction. I gotta remember that the Saguaro is good for fast, technically easy rides only.

On the front, I had a brand new WTB Stout. It was a promising inagural ride. So far it is a very confidence inspiring tire. Seems very sticky, no tread squirm and no feeling that it will fall-away when leaned over. The tread compound feels very soft and sticky and I noticed some noticible tread abrasion on the corners already (todays ride was only 7 miles!) so the internet reports of short lifespan seem likely to come true for me as well.

I made it most of the way up Chimney Gulch even after all this messing around, but I didn't quite make it to the top... about 10 minutes past the second road crossing, I met Kevin and Jeanne coming back down. I turned around then with them and we had a great ride back to the parking lot. At the end of the ride, Kevin and I compared odometers, both of us had exactly 7.27 miles indicated... pretty funny.

I need to get my act together and get the stainless steel freehub on my Hope Hub so I can put an 11-34 on it and start riding the Nevegal again. So I guess the moral of the story is that I should always bring an extra wheelset with me. Either that or I should actually work on my bike sometimes other than at the trail head. Nah.

On a slightly different subject, I'm liking the 22-36-bash front gearing a lot. I did screw up and shorten my chain too much, so I need to add 2 links back on, always a risky proposition, but I'll probably risk it. I had figured out that the standard gearing of 22-32-44 gave me a 30mph top speed at 90rpm, while a 22-36 resulted in about 26mph. Since I can barely maintain 30mph for 1 minute on a level dirt road, I figured that losing 4mph of max speed on the flats would be a good trade for extra ground clearance and a tighter chain. I doubt that I'll have any loss of speed on the vast majority of the terrain I ride. Makes the bike look a little tougher too.

Stats for the ride (from my Garmin 705):
Distance: 7.27 miles
Average: 3.8 mph (including time spent replacing the wheel)
Total Ascent: 1772 feet, yes it is flippin steep

Save the Pacific Tree Octopus

2008-07-19T17:24:00.001-06:00

I recently found out about this fascinating creature. Sadly its range is shrinking but even so it is not listed as a threatened species. Write your Congresscritter about it!

Motorcycle Weekend

2008-07-09T12:18:00.000-06:00

Karen and I took the ZX-14 up to Estes Park this weekend for an overnight. This was Karen's first time on the bike for more than an hour and my first time with a pillion for more than an hour as well. The trip went really well, except for the constant threat of rain.

We left Sunday morning at about 8:00am and road up Canyon to Nederland. Had breakfast at the Train Car and then took Peak-to-Peak into Estes Park. Very fun roads and little traffic. I took it very easy and Karen was pretty comfortable on the trip. I could barely tell I had a passenger except when going below 15mph or accelerating hard. In fact, the suspension handled the extra weight very well, but it did slow the steering down some.

The rangers told us both days to stay off of Trail Ridge due to freezing rain on Sunday and snow falling from the cuts up high. We stayed very low both days, just in Moraine Park and along the paved section of Fall River Road. Still nice, but not very fun for me.

On Monday, we went into the park and did a hike at Deer Mountain. It was an easy 6 mile round-trip. The views were very nice and the weather was perfect for hiking.

On the way home, we took 36 through Lyons and got into a squall as we came south on 36. We got kinda wet, but it was warm and since we were almost home, I didn't stop to put on rain gear. By the time we got home, we were almost dry.

I would want to have some more luggage space if we were to try for a 2 or 3 day trip, but the combo of the Nelson-Rigg tailpack and my tank bag worked OK for a 1 day trip.

Vail Pass

2008-07-04T20:34:00.000-06:00

Last weekend, Karen and I rode Vail Pass from Frisco to Vail and back. We took 5.5 hours riding time and just under 7 hours total, including 45minutes or so stopped eating lunch in Vail at the farmers' market. On the way back, Karen saw a fawn and a black bear! I rode right by but didn't notice anything. Duh.

We rode pretty slowly, but constant pace. I would get a few minutes ahead and then turn around and come back. By the end I had 5 extra miles.

My ZX-14 is OK

2008-07-01T09:05:00.001-06:00

Just got the call from Colorado Powersports and my ZX-14 passed the frame collar torque test so I'm good to go!

Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry

Linden / Olde Stage / Lee Hill Loop

2008-06-28T12:04:00.001-06:00

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

2008-06-24T08:10:00.000-06:00

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

2008-06-19T22:58:00.000-06:00

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

2008-06-19T22:44:00.000-06:00

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

2008-06-18T02:28:00.000-06:00

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

2008-06-16T15:48:00.001-06:00

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

2008-06-12T14:36:00.001-06:00

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

2008-06-12T14:29:00.001-06:00

"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

2008-06-11T11:44:00.000-06:00

(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

2008-06-09T09:33:00.000-06:00

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.

2008-06-06T01:58:00.000-06:00

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.

2008-06-04T15:00:00.001-06:00

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.

2008-06-04T14:45:00.000-06:00

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.

2008-06-04T14:41:00.000-06:00

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.

2008-06-04T13:56:00.001-06:00

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!)

2008-06-04T13:47:00.000-06:00

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.

2008-06-03T17:18:00.000-06:00

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.)

2008-05-30T18:21:00.000-06:00

Getting ready to ride, vernal, UT
Rode 400 miles yesterday from Boulder.

2008-05-28T12:06:00.000-06:00

Two Wheel Inventory

Since I am finally restarting this blog, I figured that I should give an inventory of my current 2 wheeled steeds.

1992 Specialized S-Works Steel
2005 Azonic Steelhead Hardtail
2007 Kawasaki ZX-14 (love it)
2007 Ventana El Rey (love it)
2008 Salsa La Cruz (love it)

I'll be expanding this list to add reviews and details for the various bikes and their parts.

2005-06-20T17:08:00.000-06:00

Hopefully this will not be the last post on this blog.

This blog will contain a series of thoughts and rants mostly on the subject of 2 wheel transport and recreation. I've always been enjoyed working on and riding bicycles and motorcycles. Seems like "boulder bike week" is as good a time as any to start writing about them.