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Summersault establishes Wayne County Foundation endowment fund

RICHMOND, IN – Summersault website development has partnered with the Wayne County Foundation to establish the Summersault Website Development Donor Advised Endowment Fund. The fund will allow Summersault to provide enduring charitable support to individuals and organizations working in Wayne County and beyond. “It’s an honor and a privilege to be able to give back ...

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Five Power Tips for Thunderbird

As an internet professional, I use e-mail constantly. Mutt, a popular e-mail client for command line geeks had been wearing on me. I found Thunderbird 1.5 a capable replacement for my needs, and have since cut the average size of my Inbox in half. Here are five tips I use to get the most productivity ...

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Switching to Asterisk, an open source phone system

When we started in 1997 and then opened our first real office in 1998, the first phone Summersault ever owned was a small, gray two-line office model with, I believe, five separate voice-mailboxes. It cost us around $200, after we spent a long time researching and discussing just the right one to get. It sat ...

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Validating Web forms with Perl

One of the most frequent uses of Perl in my job is to validate web-based forms. Here’s some explanation and sample code to how I do that efficiently and effectively. As a foundation, I use the CGI::Application framework. I originally thought using a “framework” for simply displaying and validating a form as overkill. I now ...

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Adopt-a-Pet.com

Adopt-a-Pet.com

We’re pleased to announce that Summersault has launched a new website for Adopt-a-Pet.com, a leading not-for-profit resource that helps animal shelters, humane societies, SPCAs, and pet rescue groups advertise their homeless pets to adopters for free.  The project represents more than a year of project planning and development, and is one of Summersault’s largest database-driven ...

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Summersault represents success at Governor’s press conference

RICHMOND, IN — Indiana Governor Frank O’Bannon traveled to Richmond today to learn more about the exciting economic growth the city is pursuing. Summersault Principal Chris Hardie was asked to talk about the growth of Summersault, as an example of the kind of success the Governor’s “Energize Indiana” program is working to promote. “We have ...

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Summersault co-founders win local business award

RICHMOND, IN – Chris Hardie and Mark Stosberg, co-founders of Summersault, received the Wayne Bank and Trust Company Young Entrepreneur of the Year award at the Small Business Development Center’s annual small business awards dinner Wednesday evening. The criteria for the award included staying power, demonstrated growth in employees and sales, contributions to the local ...

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Open-house celebrates success, business community

RICHMOND, IN – On May 25, 2001, Summersault hosted an open house for friends, family, colleagues, and the wider Richmond business community. The event recognized Summersault’s ongoing success as a small start-up website development company, and served as a belated grand opening for its present location, to which the company moved in May of 2000. ...

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Entrepreneur magazine features Summersault

In the Summer 2001 “Be Your Own Boss” special edition of Entrepreneur magazine, Summersault is featured as a start-up company that has gone the distance to succeed. The article, available on newsstands beginning in May 2001, summarizes Summersault’s origins and road to success. The Summersault staff is excited about the national coverage and prestige of ...

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Hot Job, Cool Sites

Earlham grads turn passion for Web into profit by Beth Musgrave Staff Writer The Palladium-Item, Sunday, Aug 22, 1999 They say things like “data-base driven, dynamic interfaces,” “e-commerce” and “static HTML pages.” And it ain’t all talk. While the rest of Wayne County might be satisfied simply surfing the Web, Chris Hardie and Mark Stosberg, ...