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 ...

Consider the following scenario: I use my Content Management System (CMS) to create a "Marketing" page. I then use the CMS to create an "Advertising Opportunities" page. I now want my "Marketing" page to link to my "Advertising Opportunities" page. This is really basic stuff, right?  Just alter the page, create a link in RadEditor, and type the URL.  Big freaking whoop! It is a big freaking whoop.  It's a big freaking whoop because this procedure doesn't scale.  As your web site becomes bigger & more complex the likelyhood that ...

Long-time readers of this blog might recall that I have been fairly vocal in my belief that Sitefinity should have a better solution for document & file management.  Long-time readers of this blog might also note that they do not, in fact, exist and swiftly disappear in a poof of self-unrealization. (Yes, a similar line exists in Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.  It was funny then and it's funny now!  Leave me alone.) For everyone else, you can read my insightful diatribes on this subject: Here, Here, and Here...