In my hours away from the world of marketing and web development, I write a wine blog called Vinotology . Since I started my blog, I’ve become pretty active in the wine blogging and Twitter community and have had the opportunity to observe the way that...

Google recently introduced the WebFinger protocol and enabled it for all Gmail account. What is WebFinger? WebFinger is a protocol that can be used to attach public profile information to an email address. Engineers have been fumbling around with ways...

You may have read about the new strongly-typed helpers in ASP.NET MVC 2 . In addition to the HTML element helpers like Html.TextBoxFor() , you can use the more generic Html.EditorFor() to build your own template for editing a custom data type. In this...

Smooth Fusion took Gold at the Lubbock Advertising Federation Addy Awards in the Interactive Media division for the design and implementation of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra Kids site. Smooth Fusion received the award at the February 6, 2010 awards dinner...

This is a nice little technique to easily sort a generic List using delegates. Say you have the following class: public class Product { private int _ProductID; private string _Name; private decimal _Price; public Product( int productid, string name, decimal...

I recently read a great post that tied chef Gordon Ramsey's obsessive nature to software quality: Gordon Ramsey, in his auto-biography, defended his obsessive perfectionist nature, arguing he has to obsess. You don’t win Michelin stars without it...

Site: Joe's Crab Shack ( www.joescrabshack.com ) Client: Slingshot, LLC Creative Design By: Slingshot, LLC Launched: September 2009 Smooth Fusion built the backend of the Joe's Crab Shack site and front end controls using creative assets and markup...

Site: ChatterAmp implementation on Jack Daniels site Client: Slingshot, LLC Creative Design By: Slingshot, LLC Launched: Sept 2009 Smooth Fusion worked with Slingshot, LLC to provide a ChatterAmp implementation for the celebration of Jack Daniels'...

By now, you've probably heard of invite only, Google Wave .To appreciate all the new stuff packed into Google Wave, you should watch this very long video or this very short video below: The best part about Wave is that it isn't just a Google only...

Twitter recently baked in retweet functionality into their core service. Here are the notable changes: Retweets now display with the original twit's profile, not the retweeter's profile. Twits can just click a button to retweet instead of typing...

Razorfish surveyed 1,000 U.S. consumers to cull information about the way people interact with digital branding efforts. Read the full survey here and Razorfish’s analysis here . I found a few of these findings of particular interest to marketers. The...

Site: Thrive Client: Microsoft Creative Design By: Mindseye (Portland) Launched: July 2009 Smooth Fusion worked with Mindseye to build this site for Microsoft. Mindseye provided the creative assets and Smooth Fusion implemented the site, including the...

If you're working with CAML, it's good to have available a list of fields, their internal field names, and their data types. I wrote a simple Web part that accepts the display name of a list and returns this information, along with whether or...

Site: Windows 7 Developer Contest Client: Carey Keller Anderson (Seattle) Creative Design By: Carey Keller Anderson Launched: July 2009 Smooth Fusion worked with Carey Keller Anderson (CKA) to build this site for Microsoft. CKA provided the creative assets...

Site: DSO Kids Client: Dallas Symphony Association Creative Design: Smooth Fusion Launched: July 2009 Smooth Fusion worked directly with the Dallas Symphony Association to create DSO Kids. The Dallas Symphony Orchestra created DSO Kids as a site to provide...