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Friday, February 22, 2008
Bruce Lee was classically trained in traditional martial arts. He studied Wing Chung Gung Fu from Master Yip Man when he was a child. Growing up he was a bit of a street brawler and was involved in several fights. In college he studied philosophy, and in his adult life he became the super-star we know today.
In his quest to become the world's greatest martial artist Bruce Lee rejected traditional martial arts; he called it the "classical mess". He found it made him rigid and ultimately hindered him from responding directly & effectively. ...
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Tuesday, January 22, 2008
I had a project that required me to get a list of zip codes within a certain distance from a given zip code. Here is a web-based tool that does what I'm describing.
I found a great post on how to do this using ColdFusion . I converted the SQL found on this page to work with MySQL and have posted it on this page.
First, you are going to need to get a database that maps zip codes to longitude & latitude. I personally purchased this data for $5 from ...
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