Coding is an art! Anyone can draw, but only those who draw with the elegant have their paintings valued. Similarly any programmer can code, but a Good Program is an artistic job. I see lot of people do code, but only few actually write Good code. This means they have understood the elegance of the language and knows how to use it.

Big Code - Good Code

Big Code, a Good Code? Sounds awkward? A Good code I mean here is a code which runs quicker than other solutions for the same problem.

if T(Sol1) < T(Sol2) Then, Solution 1 is a Good code., Where T is Time function , measures Time Taken

( though there are various other constraints involved, for time being let not discuss them )

Hardcore programmers are always tries to write short programs. They couple few lines of code into one and show that they have done a great coding.  But, things are not always the way it looks. Short is sweet, but not always !

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Google reader features a lot of features where most of them are still un explored. One good feature in Google reader is a quick way to organize the feeds in Google Reader. If you are a blogger or voracious reader, you would have sure subscribed to more than 50+ blogs. You later on as the count increases you might feel changing the current way you organized the your feeds. So, you have 3 options

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It’s a good news for the movies and the Multiplex lovers in India. Google had started indexing the details of the movies, it’s show time, the theatre / multiplex where the movie is picture. You can grab all those details via Google Movies.

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Pagefile is system managed virtual memory, which is treated as a virtual RAM, and stored in your harddisk. When people have RAM size of 512 MB or 1 GB , Page file setup would increase your performance . But these page file is always stored on your system and while your windows starts, Windows will clear up the old page file , it’s memory and starts creating new page file. This would take a while during your system setup.

But you can clear your page file while your Windows Shutdown, WINXPCPS.REG, an utility which clears the page file during the Windows XP Shutdown. This Registration (.REG) file clears the Page file when you power off the computer.

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KML is named as HTML of geographic contents. KML is originally created in the Google labs for rendering the Google Earth and Google Maps application is now been apporoved as International Standards for developing the Geospatial application. Open Geospatial Consortium ( OGC ) will now take control over the KML standards.

How a KML structure will look like?

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<kml xmlns="http://earth.google.com/kml/2.2">
<Placemark>
<name>Simple placemark</name>
<description>Attached to the ground. Intelligently places itself
at the height of the underlying terrain.</description>
<Point>
<coordinates>-122.0822035425683,37.42228990140251,0</coordinates>
</Point>
</Placemark>
</kml>

Where to get the KML parsers?

Google code provides the APIs for the KML. Also you can find the basic tutorial on KML.

Features of KML?

KML with it’s parser allows the following features to be used.

• Time and Animation
• Cameras
• Photo Overlays
• Polygons, Icons etc
• Creating Models, Regions and more.