5 ways to make a GUID or UUID in ArcGIS

Posted on: August 4, 2015 /
Categories: AGOL, ArcGIS, Esri, Python

{60E263FD-DBDA-443D-83A5-8F79E96AFA76} {032BB097-9EF9-45EB-8B54-3C191E4E9612} {9C6B8BD1-C294-4C1A-8E76-96D9B2378E53} {ED08D59B-0E47-4178-B469-72759B6CDF07} {FF378680-36D6-4FAC-8419-0F12C77B7E28} Globally Unique Identifiers or Universally Unique Identifiers: Humanity’s attempt to make enough unique values to assign one to everything on the Earth. These funny values are the subject of many debates on when to use them and when not to, should we use a GUID or an Integer? What is

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What to do about “[Shape_STLength__]” Errors?

Posted on: December 12, 2014 /
Categories: AGOL, Esri, Geodatabase, Python

Oh boy…. Database error: The field is not nullable. [Shape_STLength__]. The geometry is not Z-aware. TL;DR That field shouldn’t be there, you can safely remove it. I wrote a quick script to do so here: https://gist.github.com/morehavoc/3e86f535bf204b040ee2 Now for the full story… It took me a bit to figure this one out, I thought “Hmm, that

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OAuth2 and ArcGIS Online

Posted on: July 7, 2013 /
Categories: AGOL, Security

For a while now ArcGIS Online has had the ability to allow a user to login, and create a Map, publish data, etc.  And of course there were APIs that allowed us developers to get access to that data created by the users.  However, there was a big problem: The app couldn’t access the data

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Bitly Data API

Posted on: December 30, 2012 /
Categories: Python

Over my Christmas vacation I decided to take on a small programing challenge.  I had stumbled upon the Bitly api a few days earlier and noticed that it provides some information about location of links, etc. so I decided to give it a go! After looking over the api and data returned, I decided that

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Migrating to DreamHost

Posted on: December 24, 2012 /
Categories: Uncategorized

Just finished moving my site from godaddy.com to dreamhost.com.  So far the transfer has been pretty painless, but all I did was migrate the hosting! After getting setup, I started working on a project to put some Bitly API data on a map using Django/Python.  I quickly discovered that the version of python on DreamHost

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