Sam's Club MS 150 Frisco to Fort Wort...

Sam's Club MS 150 Frisco to Fort Worth 2010

day 1

It's been over a week since we crossed the finish line. I think I have recovered. Back on that Saturday when I loaded my bike into the car, as I shut the trunk I thought "Did I just hear thunder?" Shortly after that it stared to rain. At the house it was pouring. I thought, "Not again." As I drove up to the start in Frisco the rain let up, thanks Connie. The parking lot was dry at the start. Finished getting dressed and took my bags over to the truck to be hauled to TMS. I decided to keep my rain jacket In hind sight I could have left it at home, who knew? Around 7:20 am the team I was riding with "Team Bike Mart" rolled out and started our journey. It's tough not to get caught up in the adrenaline and start ridding with the big boys and girls. At the third rest stop I overheard some people talking about keeping the pace around 17 mph. I asked if I could ride with them. We clipped along at a good pace. We had a good lunch. It's hard not to over eat. 

Why there are those wicked little hills after lunch? that's just cruel. we rode along and stopped at a few stops but not all of them. I didn't get my yearly picture of me and Chester the Cheetah. As we were on the last leg of day one my legs reminded me that I had not been drinking enough. I was able to fight off the cramps. I drank heavily after the ride. I drank water not beer. we finished around 2 pm. here's the data from my ride.

Day 2

It was a little chilly in the morning. I decided not to wear a jacket hoping that it would get warm soon. as I was ridding out after stuffing myself full of pancakes and bacon, I noticed a group of riders from vipmotorcars.net and they looked like they would ride my pace. They started to do a rolling paceline and I was able to get in. We kept that going until the first rest stop. I the rest stop we introduced ourselves and I asked if I could tag along. "Sure" was what I heard. after that we picked up the pace a little and kepth the paceline rolling. We would pick up a few people here and there. We hit ever other rest stop. At one point we had a double paceline going since there were six of us. We made it through the hills and everything else. They were great to ride with. we crossed the finish line around 1 pm.

data from day 2*

*my "computer" didn't pick up my heart rate after lunch, but I finally got it back.

I'm ready to do it again.

You can find some more reading about this on twitter

New Ruby on Rails Setup on Windows XP

Ruby on Rails(2.3.5) Setup on Windows XP

I followed the directions on rubyonrails.org

I installed rubyinstaller-1.8.7-p249-rc2.exe

Then I updated the gems.

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update ruby gem

   C:\>gem update --system                 

install rails

   C:\>gem install rails                   

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Let's see what's installed.

C:\>gem list --local                       

                                                                     

*** LOCAL GEMS ***                         

                                                                     

actionmailer (2.3.5)                       

actionpack (2.3.5)                         

activerecord (2.3.5)                       

activeresource (2.3.5)                     

activesupport (2.3.5)                      

rack (1.0.1)                               

rails (2.3.5)                              

rake (0.8.7)                               

rubygems-update (1.3.6)                    

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Install the mongrel gem

    C:\>gem install mongrel 

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Let's see what's installed.

C:\>gem list --local                       

                                                                     

*** LOCAL GEMS ***                         

                                                                     

actionmailer (2.3.5)                       

actionpack (2.3.5)                         

activerecord (2.3.5)                       

activeresource (2.3.5)                     

activesupport (2.3.5)                      

cgi_multipart_eof_fix (2.5.0)              

gem_plugin (0.2.3)                         

mongrel (1.1.5)                            

rack (1.0.1)                               

rails (2.3.5)                              

rake (0.8.7)                               

rubygems-update (1.3.6)                    

win32-service (0.5.2)                      

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Install mongrel_service for mswin32

    C:\>gem install mongrel_service --platform=mswin32 

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Let's see what's installed.

C:\>gem list --local                       

                                                                     

*** LOCAL GEMS ***                         

                                                                     

actionmailer (2.3.5)                       

actionpack (2.3.5)                         

activerecord (2.3.5)                       

activeresource (2.3.5)                     

activesupport (2.3.5)                      

cgi_multipart_eof_fix (2.5.0)              

gem_plugin (0.2.3)                         

mongrel (1.1.5)                            

mongrel_service (0.3.4)                    

rack (1.0.1)                               

rails (2.3.5)                              

rake (0.8.7)                               

rubygems-update (1.3.6)                    

win32-service (0.5.2)                      

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install gem for mySql

    C:\>gem install mysql 

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Let's see what's installed.

C:\>gem list --local                       

                                                                     

*** LOCAL GEMS ***                         

                                                                     

actionmailer (2.3.5)                       

actionpack (2.3.5)                         

activerecord (2.3.5)                       

activeresource (2.3.5)                     

activesupport (2.3.5)                      

cgi_multipart_eof_fix (2.5.0)              

gem_plugin (0.2.3)                         

mongrel (1.1.5)                            

mongrel_service (0.3.4)                    

mysql (2.8.1)                              

rack (1.0.1)                               

rails (2.3.5)                              

rake (0.8.7)                               

rubygems-update (1.3.6)                    

win32-service (0.5.2)                      

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install sqlite gem

    C:\>gem install sqlite3-ruby 

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Let's see what's installed.

C:\>gem list --local                       

                                                                     

*** LOCAL GEMS ***                         

                                                                     

actionmailer (2.3.5)                       

actionpack (2.3.5)                         

activerecord (2.3.5)                       

activeresource (2.3.5)                     

activesupport (2.3.5)                      

cgi_multipart_eof_fix (2.5.0)              

gem_plugin (0.2.3)                         

mongrel (1.1.5)                            

mongrel_service (0.3.4)                    

mysql (2.8.1)                              

rack (1.0.1)                               

rails (2.3.5)                              

rake (0.8.7)                               

rubygems-update (1.3.6)                    

sqlite3-ruby (1.2.5)                       

win32-service (0.5.2)                      

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It now works with slqite3 and mysql.

Lets add MS SQL server

install gem activerecord sqlserver adapter (http://github.com/rails-sqlserver/2000-2005-adapter)

    C:\> gem install activerecord-sqlserver-adapter 

I ran into a problem that it could install the gem so I have to dowdload devkit so it would "make" it has instruction on how to install.

installed devkit: unzipped rubyforge.org/frs/download.php/66888/devkit-3.4.5r3-20091110.7z 

into c:\ruby to get ruby-odbc to build

    C:\>gem install ruby-odbc  

        -- which built and installed v. 0.999

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Let's see what's installed.

C:\>gem list --local                       

                                                                     

*** LOCAL GEMS ***                         

                                                                     

actionmailer (2.3.5)                       

actionpack (2.3.5)                         

activerecord (2.3.5)                       

activerecord-sqlserver-adapter (2.3.4)     

activeresource (2.3.5)                     

activesupport (2.3.5)                      

cgi_multipart_eof_fix (2.5.0)              

gem_plugin (0.2.3)                         

mongrel (1.1.5)                            

mongrel_service (0.3.4)                    

mysql (2.8.1)                              

rack (1.0.1)                               

rails (2.3.5)                              

rake (0.8.7)                               

ruby-odbc (0.9999)                         

rubygems-update (1.3.6)                    

sqlite3-ruby (1.2.5)                       

win32-service (0.5.2)                      

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create a database on your SQL Server

Open your SQL Server client tool and create a database called sqlserverapp

Add a user with SQL Server authentication called user with secret as password to the database you just created.

Create an ODBC link name sqlserverapp to connect to this database.

Then you have to edit your database configuration file to tell rails to use SQL Server and your new database.

Create an ODBC link name sqlserverapp to connect to this database.

Edit the database.yml file.

Change the section under development with the following :

    development:
    adapter: sqlserver
    mode: odbc
    dsn: sqlserverapp 
    username: user
    password: secret
    host: mycomputer

Note : replace mycomputer with the name of your instance of SQL Server (in most cases, locahost should do the job).

You should be god to go.

Please see Rails 2 and SQL Server 2008 on Windows made simple for more information on connecting to the MS Sequel Server.

84

I rode a whopping 84 miles this week. I should be ready for the MS150 in may. I'm still looking for donations.

I rode with the Parker College guys today. We had a blast, but they hurt me today.

conditions: 40°F Partly Cloudy Wind: N at 10 mph Humidity: 43%

ride for 2010-02-23

I had a nice ride today. I felt like I had a lot of energy today. Always nice to ride with someone, although I think I might have hurt him.
38°F Cloudy Wind: N at 15 mph Humidity: 55% Windchill: 32°F

Data from my ride.

All the way to 2k

I rode two thousand miles last year. Check it out.

I Fell Off My Bicycle.

On Monday (2009-08-31) I was riding down the hill/bridge when I turned the corner to get off of NW Highway I hit a spot of water, that I didn't see, and the next thing I knew I was sliding across the road. Luckily there was a guy in a pickup truck that was at the stop sign and made sure I was OK and gave me a ride back to the office. Mike Owens got a bunch of First Aid stuff to patch me up. I didn't hit my head.

My bike doesn’t seem too bad. The brakes a rubbing and I need to adjust my rear derailleur. It’s clicking when I pedal. I’m going to take it to the shop to have them look at it. Also get it tuned up since it’s been a few years since I’ve done that.

Here are some pictures.
Shortly after it happened

The next day.

creating PDF and fonts

ColdFusion - Creating PDFs and CSS

original code.

<cfoutput>

<cfdocument format="PDF" bookmark="yes">

<style>

<!---
td{border-bottom: 1px solid ##cccccc; font-size: 10pt;}
-->
</style>

<cfloop query="GetRemotes">

 <cfdocumentsection name="#remoteLocationsMailingAddressRet.name#">

        <table width="100%" border="0" align="center" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1">
            <tr valign="bottom">
                <td>#remoteLocationsMailingAddressRet.name#</td>
            </tr>
        </table>
 </cfdocumentsection>

</cfloop>

</cfdocument>

</cfoutput>

I noticed that when I commented out the <cfdocumentsection> tag the
CSS would be there. 

So I moved my <style> inside the <cfdocumentsection> tag and it uses
the CSS. :-)

go figure. 

so I now have 

------------------------------------
<cfoutput>

<cfdocument format="PDF" bookmark="yes">

<cfloop query="GetRemotes">

 <cfdocumentsection name="#remoteLocationsMailingAddressRet.name#">

<style>


<!---
td{border-bottom: 1px solid ##cccccc; font-size: 10pt;}

-->
</style>

 <cfdocumentsection name="#remoteLocationsMailingAddressRet.name#">

        <table width="100%" border="0" align="center" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1">
            <tr valign="bottom">
                <td>#remoteLocationsMailingAddressRet.name#</td>
            </tr>
        </table>
 </cfdocumentsection>

</cfloop>

</cfdocument>

</cfoutput>

Smashing!

Ben Forta - ORM - Rethinking ColdFusion Database Integration

Mr. Forta paints a high level picture of ORM for ColdFusion 9

Alex Lifeson interview

An interview with Alex Lifeson from premier guitar

spreadsheet support planned for ColdFusion Centaur.

Ben Forta posted an article on spreadsheet support planned for ColdFusion Centaur. Sweet.

training this year

so far. . .

A List Apart: Articles: Findings from the Web Design Survey, 2008

The results are in.
A List Apart: Articles: Findings from the Web Design Survey, 2008

The Official AMBER Alert for iPhone

AMBER Alert is the official iPhone AMBER Alert notification tool for AMBERalert.com. AMBER Alerts are issued whenever a missing child case is granted AMBER status and has been used to aide in the recovery of missing children. The iPhone application provides a real-time feed of recent alerts including victim photos and information, suspect photos and descriptions, vehicle photos and descriptions, and a reporting mechanism allowing you to report a sighting.

Secure your ColdFusion application against SQL injection attacks

Adobe - Developer Center : Secure your ColdFusion application against SQL injection attacks

I'm rewriting a CF app and it's scary how vulnerable this app was. I wish tutorials would start off with security. I know it's not fun or sexy but it's needed.

YUI 2 and YUI 3 Source Code Now on GitHub » Yahoo! User Interface Blog

YUI 2 and YUI 3 Source Code Now on GitHub » Yahoo! User Interface Blog

that's all

Cycling Weight Loss - bicycling.com

Cycling Weight Loss - bicycling.com
These cyclists each lost 100 pounds or more. Here are their stories--and advice on launching your own breakthrough season. FTW!

New Year, New You: Cycling Weight-Loss Stories Slide 1 : Bicycling Magazine.com

It's a great way to get in shape.
Read about it on Bicycling Magazine.com

Google's AJAX Libraries API

for those that use YUI:
http://yuiblog.com/blog/2008/11/19/yui-google/

googles info:
http://code.google.com/apis/ajaxlibs/documentation/

The AJAX Libraries API is a content distribution network and loading architecture for the most popular open source JavaScript libraries. By using the google.load() method, your application has high speed, globally available access to a growing list of the most popular JavaScript open source libraries.

They also host

• jQuery
• jQuery UI
• Prototype
• script_aculo_us
• MooTools
• Dojo
• SWFObjectNew!

They also list what versions they host.

Adobe - Developer Center : Using Ajax to retrieve data from ColdFusion

Adobe - Developer Center : Using Ajax to retrieve data from ColdFusion

Adobe Platform Evangelist Adam Lehman demonstrates how easy it is to populate drop-down lists in a simple application with data from ColdFusion.