Joel McCune

ArcGIS

ArcGIS Branched Versioning - Start to Finish

When doing ArcGIS Enterprise installs and upgrades, it is extremely common to set up an Enterprise Geodatabase at the same time with Branch Versioning. Although not everybody needs their data versioned, it is extremely common when clients are setting up ArcGIS Enterprise. Typically the entire motivation for implementing ArcGIS Enterprise

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Stop Using Headless Users for ArcGIS Enterprise Automation

Increasingly I am working with organizations wanting to disable all built-in user accounts in ArcGIS Enterprise so everybody has to use their identity provider login through SAML or OpenID integration. This makes sense. If an organization is using an enterprise identity provider, there is a good argument for getting

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Solo Whitewater

Recently I have seen articles discussing paddling alone on whitewater in a few blogs, and even in print publications, which surprises me. I have been paddling whitewater for over 40 years, and have been confidently paddling IV-V for around 30 years. Conventional wisdom is never paddle alone. When the

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Remembering Dale Barton

It was 1983. I was six years old. The Arkansas Canoe Club was doing a base camp at Five Points on the Arkansas River. This was long before the Arkansas Headwaters Recreation Area. At Five Points there was a place you could pull off on the river side, and drive

Revel in the Doing

...now everything ahead seems kind of empty and I find I have already had my reward, in the doing of the thing. Buzz Holmstrom penned these words in 1937 after running the last and largest rapid, Lava Cliff, in the Grand Canyon. The next day he would finish his trip,

F-150 Plan

Powering Go Fast Camper Lights

We waited six weeks to receive our F-150 because we had to order it. Dealers do not keep a base model XL 4x4 four-door with vinyl seats, vinyl floor and a 6.5 foot bed in inventory. Although I work in an office, on the weekends we are

F-150 Plan

Bilstein 6112 Installation

Your truck looks like the game warden. This makes me laugh because admittedly, this is exactly the type of image I was aiming for with the F-150 Plan. It is supposed to be a boring, bland and rather unremarkable looking truck. The intent of putting Bilstein 6112's

Deschutes for Father's Day

I am really looking forward to next weekend. Two years ago over Father's Day weekend, for the first time, we did a multi-day rafting trip with just our family...just the four of us, and it was absolutely magnificent. We did the Deschutes from Warm Springs to

What Can $200 Billion Do?

Last week I read the United States has spent $200 billion on the war in Iran. I wondered, what else can $200 billion be used for, especially for making the world a better place? I asked Copilot. Here is the response. A one‑time investment of $200 billion is large

Fly Fishing, Another Way to Enjoy the River and Remember My Friend

Learning new things is something I genuinely enjoy, and typically, I enjoy learning things requiring developing a new skill. I also love moving water. Paddling whitewater rivers has been a part of my life since before I can remember. Frequently, when paddling rivers, I see fly fisherman. This is not

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Upper Stehekin - Jumping Headlong into Packrafting

I don't remember paddling in the 90's. I was born in 1992. Although I knew Taylor was younger than me, this really solidified the difference in our ages...15 years...wow. We were hiking down the trail on the east side of Cascade Pass, which separates

F-150 Plan

Tires for the F-150

The sting of paying for a new truck finally wore off enough to pull the trigger and get decent all-terrain tires for the F-150. Based on my analysis discussed in a previous post, Tire Size with Python and Pandas, I opted for a set of 285/70R17'

Teaching Risk

"Dad, can we do that run again?" asked Jesse. At the time, he was barely seven. We were headed up the ski lift at White Pass for our last run before the lifts closed. I knew why he wanted to do the same run again. He really likes

Learning About Doing Hard Things

Dad, it really hurts! Jesse had just finished a cross-country running race. Jesse is our oldest son. He is nine. For context, I also ran cross-country...a lot. I ran four years of high school cross-country and track, and was privileged to be a very successful runner

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Beyond the Bunny Hill in a Boat

With skiing, it is the first time you are able to head up the lift with your kid. You know full well it likely may take an hour to get down to the bottom, and may even include some crying halfway down, but going up the lift, you are finally

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The Siren Song of Mountains and Rivers

The best way to describe the feeling is contentment. I was just north of I-90 high on a ridge, parked alongside a forest road on the Idaho and Montana border lying in the dark inside the GoFastCamper (GFC) installed a few hours earlier in Bozeman, MT. After getting the

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Rafting for Father's Day

This past weekend over Father's Day was the first time we have done a multi-day raft trip with just the four of us, just our family. It went spectacularly. We have done multi-day trips before, just not with only us. Going with other people definitely is

F-150 Plan

Anything But a Driveway Queen

We use a truck like a truck. It gets dirty, both inside and out. We toss a LOT of gear in the back, tow raft trailers, and sleep in the back. With four of us, we have simply outgrown our Toyota Tacoma. Hence, the F-150 Plan. Three weeks ago,

The Business of the Outdoors

"A degree in Business?" He said the last word, "Business," as if it were a dirty word...almost as if uttering a disparaging slur. He, in the fall, would start his final year of high school. He was from an upper-middle class family, and following

F-150 Plan

First Trip and Initial Impressions

On Thursday before Mother's Day we picked up the F-150 we ordered a few months ago, the first step in the F-150 Plan. We already had planned on heading to White Salmon for Mother's Day weekend, so by the next afternoon, we were headed

Tire Size with Python and Pandas

Trying to sort out the what tires are available, and will work with a vehicle is ridiculously frustrating. We ordered a new base model F-150 in February. It its supposed to arrive this month in a week or so. Ever since the 90's I have run BFGoodrich

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Wyatt Is A Better Model Than I Am

Tuesday nights, ever since the time change when we got more daylight back in the evenings, have become kayak practice nights with the boys. We just head to the Deschutes here in Olympia, Washington between Pioneer Park and the Valley Golf Course. It is little more than moving water. The

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Please Do Not Be Careful

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. - Helen Keller When I originally wrote this, our boys were four and six. Now they are

F-150 Plan

The F-150 Plan

As much as I like to think I want a truck for getting to that far flug place most vehicles simply cannot get to, the reality is most of what I need a truck for is driving a long ways on forest roads with a lot of gear. This gear

Python

Copy PySpark Schemas to Clipboard

Frequently, I have a need to both explicitly define input data schemas for processing using PySpark and simultaneously include the schema in Sphinx documentation. Usually I can get the schema for loading without too much difficulty by outputting df.schema in a Jupyter Notebook, and copy-paste into my loading