Posts By: Mark Runyon
Rachael Wood’s Vision of the Future of Technology
The following essay was submitted by Rachael Wood of University of California, Davis as part of the Future of Technology Scholarship competition. One of the most interesting trends we’ve observed in human history is how past technology enables us to innovate at faster and faster rates. As the technological baseboard continues to grow, humans require […]
Jeff Berger’s Vision of the Future of Technology
The following essay was submitted by Jeff Berger from University of Wisconsin Oshkosh as part of the Future of Technology Scholarship competition. Thunder rolled through the sticky summer air, perking the heads of multi-colored finches resting in a birch tree. An elderly man raised his head from his book, to survey the skies. He sat […]
Zachary Czarnecki’s Vision of the Future of Technology
The following essay was submitted by Zachary Czarnecki from Missouri Western State University as part of the Future of Technology Scholarship competition. Society (for the purposes of this paper limited to an American perspective) seems to have a technological-esteem issue, in the way people always seem to undervalue the world’s current technological progress. Maybe it’s […]
Code Library: c# Switch Statement for State Names & Abbreviations
As a programmer, sometimes the thing you need most is something painfully simple. It may be a thing you’ve done a hundred times, but if you don’t have a code locker where you keep these snippets of code, it can be maddening trying to track down what program you wrote that bit of code in. […]
Does Your Domain Name Pass the Dinner Party Test?
A conversation kicked up in the entrepreneur section of Reddit a week or so ago where a business owner was fielding ideas on a potential domain he was considering purchasing. Let’s say it was insureatlanta.com. Like most business owners, his hopes were instantly dashed when he went to his domain registrar only to find his […]
Sending ASP.NET Emails Through Godaddy with Gmail & Godaddy Hosted
I’ve been lulled into a cushy existence of late, doing a lot of work within the confines of WordPress. Pop in the Contact Form 7 plugin, setup the page and magically email is flowing from your site into your inbox. Ah, its a beautiful thing. Once you leave the tranquil kingdom of WordPress and its […]
The Future of Technology Scholarship by Vandelay Web
[Update: May 23] We said that we’d reread all of the finalist essays again, but we didn’t plan on reading them all three times each. Along the way, we debated and discussed the merits of each, dropping a few as we went. At the end of the day, two stood out for their inventiveness, writing […]
Real Estate Agent SEO & Web Marketing Case Study
Welcome to our first installment of a four-part series on SEO and web marketing strategy for real estate agents. A lot of these tips and general advice will apply to small businesses on the whole, but we wanted to tailor our approach to realtors in order to show you how general web marketing and SEO […]
Vandelay Web Announces Acceptance of BitCoin
Web and systems development firm, Vandelay Web, announced Thursday that they would now accept payment via the online currency, BitCoin. Per coinmap.org, Vandelay Web will be one of only six merchants in the metro Atlanta area to accept the new digital currency. Vandelay Web president and founder Mark Runyon said of the move, “We are […]
Web Hosting Reviews: Digging to Find the Honesty & Truth
Web Hosting recommendations aren’t hard to unearth on the Internet. I just typed in web hosting reviews into Google and got back 162 million results — yes million. Now the real question is how many of those reviews are actually genuine and trustworthy. You’d probably have an easier time finding a kid who hates Christmas. […]