cyber landscape

How to Prepare for a Cyber-Attack

There’s a lot of talk about cyber-warfare right now. With Russia invading Ukraine and President Biden threatening to launch an offensive cyber-attack as a consequence, the chances of many American citizens being affected by an attack is high. The United States is already the target of many cyber-attack events and their frequency has been growing …

Where to Find the desktop.msi File for Performing a Silent Install of ArcGIS for Windows

If you want to perform a silent install of ArcGIS desktop for Windows using the Microsoft Installer (.msi) file, you need the actual .msi file. But finding the .msi file can seem difficult. It’s nowhere to be found on the ESRI download site (that I could find). It turns out to be quite easy to …

How to Insert an Image Between WordPress List Items

The Problem Most people write WordPress posts visually. That is, they don’t write directly between HTML paragraph code tags. They use WordPress’s graphical editor. And while graphical editors make post writing very easy, they’re not without fault. One fault that I experienced this afternoon on a post that I was updating was while trying to …

How To Export A Feature Class Attribute Table From ArcGIS Pro

Several years ago I wrote about how to export an ArcGIS feature’s attribute table as a CSV file. ESRI didn’t make this extremely intuitive. Since that time I’ve moved into using ArcGIS Pro and thought I’d post about doing the same thing in this application. It’s even easier to export table records in ArcGIS Pro. …

Toggle Layer Visibility Using URL Parameters in Web App Builder Developer Edition

ESRI’s developer edition of their Web App Builder (WAB) is a handy stand-alone tool for creating web mapping apps. While the WAB is a tool for building an app without needing to code anything, the developer edition allows users to create their own widgets and extend current functionality or themes. Even with this capability, however, …

Create Files Without Extensions in Windows

If you use Git for anything you’ve probably had occasion to create a .gitignore file. The gitignore file simply tells Git to ignore specified files or directories that you don’t want managed by version control. But if you’re a Windows user it can appear difficult to create the file. That’s because the file explorer doesn’t …

World Death Map

This map shows you just how fleeting life really is. I’m not sure if the joy of the births offset the horrors of the deaths.