Here?s a great little script for importing CSV data into Blender.  Talk about useful!

http://blenderartists.org/forum/showthread.php?t=103587

Blender Source Pack (300MB) http://www.blendernation.com/mike-pans-blender-source-file-pack/

Blender Artists http://blenderartists.org/cms/content/view/12/30/

Game Engine Tutorial http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Doc:Tutorials/Game_Engine/BSoD

I found this great little timer tool.  It let?s you create and customize all types of timers.  I use it for tracking the time I work on a project, to measure the performance of applications I build, to notify me when an ebay item auction is ending and more. It can count up/down sound an alarm and more.

Enjoy :)

http://www.timeleft.info/

No more empty space?

http://forums.x-plane.org/index.php?showtopic=10792&st=0&p=106120&#entry106120

Faq for online server http://forums.x-plane.org/index.php?showtopic=10792

Map of others online.  http://xfsd.ansorg-web.de/fsdmap/

Flight Plans http://forums.x-plane.org/index.php?autocom=downloads&showcat=4

Scenery DSF : http://forums.x-plane.org/index.php?autocom=downloads&showcat=80

Map of Scenery : http://forums.x-plane.org/index.php?showtopic=30718

Aircraft : http://forums.x-plane.org/index.php?autocom=downloads&showcat=87

Flight School : http://forums.x-plane.org/index.php?showforum=33

Flight Plans : http://lemon.x10hosting.com/fpd/

This is a very nice LGPL SDK for projecting geospatial objects to a 2-D space. Written for .net.  A geospatial library handles the translation of geo based vector data into it?s 2-Dimensional representation.  This allows you to render your own maps from vector data in different projections.  What this library does is very similar to what happens when a 3-Model is rendered unto the 2-D screen by a 3-D rendering engine, only this is for map data.

Sharp Map  

Free Geo Spatial data is available from www.openstreetmap.org.  Now you have everything you need to build your own Google maps, or virtual earth replacement.  (Well, that and about about 100,000 hours of developer time :)

This is how you calculate the distance between two points on on the earth.

Haversine formula:  (^  = Change in)

R = earth?s radius (mean radius = 6,371km)
^lat = lat₂- lat₁
^long = long₂- long₁
a = sin^2(^lat/2) + cos(lat₁).cos(lat₂).sin^2(^long/2)
c = 2.atan2(Sqrt(a), Sqrt((1-a)))
d = R.c

(Note that angles need to be in radians to pass to trig functions).

JavaScript:

var R = 6371; // km
var dLat = (lat2-lat1).toRad();
var dLon = (lon2-lon1).toRad();
var a = Math.sin(dLat/2) * Math.sin(dLat/2) +
        Math.cos(lat1.toRad()) * Math.cos(lat2.toRad()) *
        Math.sin(dLon/2) * Math.sin(dLon/2);
var c = 2 * Math.atan2(Math.sqrt(a), Math.sqrt(1-a));
var d = R * c;

More info (including bearing)

http://edn.esri.com/index.cfm?fa=media.detail&media=145

Free (and pay) online services for creating/generating maps, geocoding and visualization of maps.

Udi's excellent site was mentioned in MSDN magazine Sept 2009 pg 12

• http://www.udidahan.com/
• Udi's published content..    http://www.udidahan.com/articles/

AutoMapper quickly populates a DTO using a single line of code like this

public void Test()
{
Mapper.CreateMap<Product, ProductDTO>();
ProductDTO productDto=Mapper.Map<Product, ProductDTO>(product);
}

http://www.codeplex.com/AutoMapper