Geerlings & Wade - Cutting Through the Vines (2,787 words)

"The WineCat and Internet databases talk to each other," Kober says. "The Web site was built with the understanding that it had to replicate a lot of the business logic we were building into the WineCat system," a project that was going on more or less simultaneously. "The Web site needs to understand that in Texas, for instance, there are dry ZIP codes; the Web site needs to check [those things] just like a rep would on the phone," he adds. He says the Web site reconfigures itself to show the state's inventory as soon as the visitor logs in his or her ZIP code.