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This year I am registered for 3 rides … so far. My one regret was not paying attention to the Triple Bypass registration. Registration opened in January and filled all 3500 spots in one hour. The triple bypass is the hardest ride here in Colorado and people come from out of state for it. I’ve been dropped by so many cyclists with triple bypass jerseys too. Not to say the lesser rides aren’t challenging or fun. Here they are -

Denver Century
June 20th 2010 | 100 miles
First up, the Denver Century. I’m pretty sure this is a new one, but this is the first year I am doing any of these rides so they’re all new to me. The course is the most familiar for me. I can’t remember how many times I’ve ridden the trails here in Denver and that’s what this is. Starts at Invesco field and heads out west to the 470 trail then east to cherry creek and back. A nice big 100 mile loop. Should be easy and a blast.

CO Bike MS
June 26-27 2010 | 150 miles
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The very next weekend after the Denver Century is the Colorado Bike MS. This is the only big ride I’ve done. I did this last year and it was unbelievably fun. Very well supported with stops every 10 miles. I mean this when I say ANYONE can do this ride, and EVERYONE should. Its fun, its for a great cause, and a great way to get into cycling. There are plenty of SAG wagons to pick you up if you don’t want to pedal all the way up a hill. (The horse-head reservoir had some good ones.) Free cliff bars and bike mechanics. I got my bike adjusted both days for free!
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Copper Triangle
August 7 2010 | 5,981′ Elevation | 80 miles
This one is easily the hardest of the three without mentioning Pikes Peak (see below). Lots of climbing = lots of fun. Its the one I am most excited about and will be training for. Climbing is my favorite thing to do on the bike. Its steady, slow enough to take in the views, and challenging.

On the table are two more rides. Subaru Elephant Rock and Assault on the Peak.

Subaru Elephant Rock
June 6 2010 | 100 miles
Very popular and I don’t think they even have a cap on riders. They also have a mountain bike course and a lot of family friendly and shorter courses. This one sounds a lot like the Denver Century. I’m just not sure about 3 huge rides in June, but hey, they do that daily in the TDF for 3 weeks soooo … maybe I shouldn’t be such a pussy. (Even though I’m 1/33 a TDF level cyclist) Money is also a factor though. Which leads me to the next one on the table because this is where the money goes.

Assault on the Peak
August 29 2010 | 6,360′ Elevation | 18 miles
Fuck yeah. That’s what comes to mind when I think about riding up Pikes Peak. Or ZOMFG ru serious!1!!?! the price tag does a good job of calming me down, $180. Wow. Copper triangle is longer, with 2 more peaks, and pretty close in elevation. Both the Denver Century and Copper triangle were $200 together and I got jerseys for each. The allure of Pikes Peak is that it hasn’t been done before, and its fucking Pikes Peak. I can see Pikes Peak from my apartment here in Denver – so can my bike – we’re both thinking the same thing. So yeah, I’m going to register for this and shell out the $180. Registration in fact, is tomorrow or else this would be in the list up top. The other major difference is that cyclists cannot ride up Pikes Peak any other day. This is it. As I’m passing Pikes Peak in my car I’ll be able to look to the west and say, “Yes, I rode that.” My wife can say the same thing if we’re traveling north and I’m driving.

For the life of me I could not figure out why my ads went from tech/gluten to PSA. I read blogs and articles on how to re-index, add content, change settings etc to get them to go away. But the answer was in adsense help the whole time. A while ago I verified my account for payment, it wasn’t a big deal because honestly I get next to no visitors and had very little money from it. Anyway, it turns out there was a lot more verification to do, phone number, taxes, payment method. All of that is now done so hopefully the ads change here in the next few days. I was actually clicking on some of the gluten-free ones myself, that’s how I found Rheinlander Bakery in Arvada. Full of absolutely mouth watering gluten-free treats.

http://www.rheinlanderbakery.com/

I still don’t understand how adsense works but I don’t really care. Not enough people visit this blog anyway. Its mainly just to chronicle gluten-free stuff and tech stuff for web hosting.

Now to find a wordpress plugin to plague the 2 people that read this blog with ads …

The dog is my samoyed named Moya – after the ship in Farscape.

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I just found this blog post on iis.net and applied it to my WordPress site. The site does seem a lot faster but it could be the car wash effect. You know, when you get your car washed and somehow it makes it faster. Also known as the gas tank effect.

http://blogs.iis.net/ruslany/archive/2010/03/05/make-wordpress-faster-on-iis-with-wincache-1-1.aspx

I recently had the pleasure of figuring out how to get Railo working for a customer. Unfortunately the internet doesn’t convey my extreme sarcasm in saying the word pleasure. It was not pleasant. For one, there is very limited documentation. So limited that it’s hard to determine what version you should install. Despite all this I managed to figure out the basics in a few days and get some sites up and running. There are still a lot of things that confuse me, but I’m not about to figure all those out. I just wanted to get it running. Fortunately for anyone who is reading this I kept some notes on what I did, hopefully they help you in your endeavor.

First, download Railo server. Go here http://www.getrailo.org/index.cfm/download and scroll down, then download the exe under Railo server.

Run the installed, I chose to install in C:\Railo to keep things really simple.

After it’s installed try http://localhost:8600/railo-context/admin/server.cfm on the server. Don’t get excited, I’ve never had a problem getting that running. Don’t set anything up yet or add DSNs. I’m not sure if this is true but the admin is different for each site. At least I found that if I added a DSN under localhost it would not show up for the site. More on that later …

Open IIS and add a script mapping to your handler mappings.

Script: *.cfm
DLL: C:\Railo\win32\isapi_srun.dll
Name: CFviaRailo

Within handler mappings click on edit feature permissions from the right hand side and allow EXE. This is bad for the whole server so I recommend doing it on the sites individually.

If you are using Windows 2008 R2 x64 make sure the application pool for the site is set to allow 32bit apps and also set it to no managed code.

Open resin.conf in C:\Railo\conf. Find the line:

<!– configures a deployment directory for virtual hosts –>

Above that line put the following.

<!– configure IIS sites routing by host –>
<host id=”your-domain-name.com” root-directory=”.”>
<web-app id=”/” document-directory=”C:/inetpub/wwwroot/file-path”/>
</host>

Do the same for any other sites that will run Railo. Restart IIS (cmd –> iisreset) and the Railo server in services.

Now, in a web browser open the Railo admin under that site. Hopefully everything works for you. The URL would be “http://your-domain.com/railo-context/admin/server.cfm. You should be asked to set an admin password. After you do that and login add your datasources, setup the mail server, turn off debugging, and any other settings you like. With all that done your site should run as long as it doesn’t require something Railo doesn’t offer.

Like I said this is very basic and I did this for some relatively simple websites. I’m not sure if this is correct or recommended.Keep in mind that Resin is the web server, it is running the Railo sites and the CFML. IIS is simply passing the cfml to resin/railo. Just like normal CF/Java.

Some other links that helped me.

http://blog.durhamcons.com/post.cfm/railo-3-0-community-resin-3-1-and-iis6-learn-from-my-mistakes

http://www.railo.ch/blog/index.cfm/2009/6/24/h2Configuring-Railo-for-the-application-server–Part-1h2

Leave a comment with any questions you have and I’ll try and help.

MikeSaysMeh dot com is now running on PHP 5.2.13 with IIS 7 and Wincache. Its pretty easy to install, just download the Non Thread Safe version of PHP 5 from here. http://windows.php.net/download/ and download Wincache from here, http://www.iis.net/expand/WinCacheForPhp. Install PHP, add wincache extension, run. Its really that simple. Just make sure you use the non thread safe version of PHP or else you get fastcgi crashes. Another tip, if you’re running into errors open a dos prompt and run your page from there. You should get a warning box or error message that will be easier to follow. IE:

C:\PHP>php-cgi C:\inetpub\wwwroot\info.php

If you’re using Win2k8 R2 make sure yer app pool is allowing 32bit apps.

One of the other things I noticed is that php now compiles, its slow to start (like asp.net) but once its going it zooms along.

I think I’ve tried every flavor of larabars so far and the best one by far is peanut butter cookie. Not to say the other ones aren’t bad, but the pb cookie is that much better. Lemon bar is also a  favorite and actually reminded me of my Grandma’s lemon bars. So much that I had my wife make some gluten free lemon bars, but they weren’t Grandma’s, probably because they were missing delicious gluten. A box of larabars runs about $20 at King Soopers and lasts me and my wife 2 weeks. There are some days when all I have for lunch is one. They make great fuel on long rides as well.

I’m testing an install of DotNetNuke on IIS 7 and ran into an error when trying to start the site.

The WebResource.axd handler must be registered

I tried following some guides online to add the handlers to the >system.webserver> section which is there for IIS in the web.config but I couldn’t get them to work so I just switched the application pool to classic mode. I’d rather run in integrated, I hate running something as up to date as DNN on an IIS 7 server in basically IIS 6 mode; but for now this works. So to get around this error just switch your app pool in IIS 7 to classic mode and then restart it. Below is a guide on how to do that.

http://support.gearhost.com/KB/a381/change-managed-pipeline-mode-in-iis-7.aspx

http://mybready.com/index.php/

It’s $300 but can you put a price on joy? On deliciousness? No, you can’t. This is exactly what I have been looking for and I have to thank my wife for finding it for me. Gluten-free bread is normally frozen and never fresh. Unless you can actually find a restaurant that serves it, like Le Central (more on that later), your gluten-free bread experience will leave something to be desired. Bready, possibly the best robot ever created – yes it’s a robot – is going to change that for all of us who live with the gluten-free curse. That is why my vote will be a write-in for Bready. It’s also why your vote should be for Bready as well.

You can find a list of gluten-free Frito-Lay products on their site here. Its actually pretty damn long.I eat plain fritos sometimes when I’m in a pinch and judging from the way I feel and the ingredients on the back I figured they were safe. I just did a quick double check online today and found out I was right, and there are a lot more unhealthy chips I can eat as well. Gonna be tough staying away from all that deliciousness.

http://fritolay.com/your-health/for-special-dietary-needs.html

Just click on product not containing gluten. Here’s just a few.

Last updated February 24, 2010

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