Coolest Mars Image Ever!

From Discover Magazine

To the dust cloud in the central lower left quadrant. Estimated to be 10 meters across. Makes the tree like sand structures at least 30 meters tall!

Append to a text blob in SQL 2008

From StackOverflow
Wish I could remember this without google...

update 
  tablename
set
  fieldname = convert(nvarchar(max),fieldname) + 'appended string'

SharpMap patch

Something novel, fixed my first bug in open source software: SharpMap
Adding this control as part of my DRC rewrite in C#


Index: Trunk/SharpMap/Data/Providers/DbaseReader.cs
===================================================================
--- Trunk/SharpMap/Data/Providers/DbaseReader.cs    (revision 61030)
+++ Trunk/SharpMap/Data/Providers/DbaseReader.cs    (working copy)
@@ -417,7 +417,16 @@
         {
             baseTable = new FeatureDataTable();
             foreach (DbaseField dbf in DbaseColumns)
-                baseTable.Columns.Add(dbf.ColumnName, dbf.DataType);
+            {
+                try
+                {
+                    baseTable.Columns.Add(dbf.ColumnName, dbf.DataType);
+                }
+                catch(DuplicateNameException)
+                {
+                    baseTable.Columns.Add(string.Format("{0}_1",dbf.ColumnName), dbf.DataType);
+                }
+            }
         }

         internal FeatureDataTable NewTable

The Cure - Tegan and Sara

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Changing Table Layout panel control dynamically at runtime

Change Column span and Row Span for a control in a tablelayoutpanel at runtime...

TableLayoutPanel1.SetRowSpan(TextBox1, 2)
TableLayoutPanel1.SetColumnSpan(TextBox1, 2)

Change Column and row position of a control in a tablelayoutpanel at runtime...

TableLayoutPanel1.SetRow(TextBox1, 2)
TableLayoutPanel1.SetColumn(TextBox1, 2)