Calculating distance between two IPs using Maxmind database

This is a faster mechanism to find distance between two IPs instead of using Haversine distance to calculate the distance between two points (each defined by a lat, long tuple) on the globe .

Gtalk in Java Code

My analytics take a long time to execute due to the large datasets. To ease the constant need to check the execution status, I wrote a small util class to notify the status via gtalk. Gtalk is based on Jabber protocol. Smack API is a java implementation of the Jabber protocol and can be downloaded here: http://www.igniterealtime.org/projects/smack/