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You need a shopping cart and a merchant account/gateway. The credit card stuff is relatively easy copy/paste code. Authorize.net and Paypal have historically worked pretty well.

Though try to avoid storing or handling credit cards yourself to sleep better at night. Braintree is another gateway to look at.

I hope this helps. Eating and working too much can be addictive and I don't think you'll be able to force him to change. Maybe try connecting and maybe learning some of his personal dreams. Real change has to come from him, but maybe you could gently establish a keystone habit that others can build from. "The Power of Habit" is a good book/audiobook that talks a bit about this in the first chapters.

On the other hand, it's hard to accept, but maybe just try to connect while you can.

I haven't read the benchmarks... But go for mhz rather than cores. (Amdahl's Law)

This one too: http://w3techs.com/technologies/overview/programming_languag...

This page was also interesting... Keep in mind, it's only the top 10,000,000 in Alexa: http://w3techs.com/forum/topic/22677

"In total, we have a few thousand technology indicators, many of them can be used - directly or indirectly - to determine the server-side language.

The number of sites where we don't identify any language is relatively small. The reason why we don't include it in the statistics is, that we want to show shifts in the relative popularity of technologies, not distorted by changes in our abilities to detect them."

"That 80% marketshare is not going anywhere anytime soon." - I had to look this up to confirm... It changes my perspective on the language.

My mirrorless shots tend to nail exposure and composition more often than DSLR. I've been waiting almost 14 years for the compact cameras to finally get comparable sensors and interchangeable lenses.

I recently benchmarked an uncached remote ASP site versus a local Node.js copy that returned identical HTML. Of course, Node was 100x as fast. (1ms vs 200ms)

However, in the browser, they felt like the same site. The 199ms head start resulted in only 50-75ms difference in the browser. Anyway, it turned our focus from backend work to CSS and image improvements.

I would recommend against hosting your own email unless you want to learn from the experience. Otherwise, pick a good company and focus on other things.

Personally, I would recommend Rackspace; perhaps from a reseller that can sell you a single address ($24/year). (contact me if you want) Free services scare me unless I can find how and why they are doing it.

I'll have to check the numbers. The 6000W came from the stove's rating tag. It's a small stove that supplements an oil burner to make the living room and kitchen comfortable. The oil burner keeps the whole house warm enough to not burst the pipes.

I'm not sure where I read 1000W but it is for a square meter perpendicular to the sun's angle. Here in North East USA, solar installation folks say we get "3 hours" of direct sunlight per day in winter and 6 hours in the summer. I think that accounts for shorter days and weather.

The solar heat gain is close to 1kw per square meter. The wood stove that heats half of our house is only 6kw.

Or turning it into chemical bonds like plants do? It reminds me of Buckminster Fuller describing fire as "sunlight unwinding from tree trunks". Or burning oil as unwinding sunlight from lots of prehistoric plants and animals.

It reminds me of farmers planting deciduous trees near the house: shade in the summer, sun in the winter.

From "The Tipping Point" on page 47:

"Tjaden actually sat down and figured out what the average Bacon number is for the quarter million or so actors and actresses who have played in television films or major motion pictures and came up with 2.8312 steps. Anyone who has ever acted, in other words, can be linked to Bacon in an average of under three steps."

I hope this is useful...

General - site is overcrowded with too many photos and too much "stuff".

Suggestions:

1) Put a large bright "Order Today" button in the top right corner. Everything is secondary to this button.

2) Tone down everything.

3) Too many photos and screaming words without substance makes the product seem more about marketing than quality.

4) Don't underestimate the "quaintness" factor. The best site I've seen selling a similar product had a "terrible" website but sweet text.

Home:

- "Hero" slides have too many photos and text on top is hard to read. Simplify drastically. The photos are also zoomed too far in. It's like talking to someone that stands too close.

- Don't say "join our family" for ordering.

- Don't reuse photos like the raspberry one.

- Add some whitespace between hero slideshow and the logo.

- Logo bigger?

- Row of boxes: Our story, our balsamic, how to use... The text is repeated twice (and is the same links at the top and footer). Perhaps the text could be better.

- Do you really need a "cart" and "my account" link in the top right?

- Useful links in the footer are just the same links again.

- The Purchase links in the footer are nice. I would also consider moving the shopping cart block up a little.

- Join our family seems nice, but it confuses me. The text below the box makes more sense "signup to get the latest recipes, exclusive offers, special gifts and more..." Could this be trimmed down and more specific?

Our Story

- The photo at the top is pretty but turns me off. I don't get warm feelings until "A Family Collaboration"... Perhaps take everything out above it.

- How about a photo of people...not a stock photo, but one that looks like a real family photo.

About Our Balsamic - Too many fonts, colors and photos...and reuse of the same photos again. - The text seems pretty good... but perhaps tell us more about what makes a balsamic good.

Recipe Blog

- How about just "recipes"

- I like this page but it confuses me. Could it include more text on each recipe or perhaps a little less before I click?

- The recipes look great!

- The photos seem a little overpowering

Order

- I don't like this page at all. I don't know where to click and I assume I can somehow order here.

- Could the menu bar link at the top just link to the actual order page?

Actual Order Page

- Love the top part... put too much text further down. Perhaps use some of this text on other pages? I got this far. I want to order something... Don't make me read more text... Let's complete the sale and move on.

- I don't like the photo of 16 bottles. Can we just have a second "add to cart" button or a quantity discount at the top?

Other Ideas

- FAQ page? What is Balsamic? Why does aging make it better? Can I tour the farm? I'm not a chef, will it be OK to use on regular food?

Here are some stats: 0.4-6.25% http://ecomodder.com/wiki/index.php/Rear_wheel_skirts

It's highly dependent on speed.

Small gains can add up. I had a 75 minute commute for a while and ran some MPG experiments on my truck. Adding a wedge shaped tonneau cover, a chin spoiler, and inflating the tires more boosted my MPG from 18-26. It was ugly so I took them off and got distracted before I built them again. It was much quieter and seemed to "roll" along at faster speeds.

I've been hoping to some day find a car that is a worthy replacement for my Honda Insight. The Volkswagen seems to be similar in many ways: comparable horsepower, weight, covered rear wheels, etc. I doubt it'll be $22,000 though.

A friend even was able to get similar mpg numbers by boosting the battery pack to a similar capacity (in a competition). Too bad the market didn't shine on the early Insight. If I remember correctly, they only sold 20,000 worldwide over its 8 year run.

Three APIs joined together via Javascript in one page: RadioReference.com, Soundcloud, Flickr

I'm looking forward to Pi Day in 2015.

I drink watered down orange juice. It mixes evenly if you pour the water first.

Otherwise the concentration is higher and the temperature is lower near the bottom of the glass.

I've been thinking about using a random process to guide bug seeding. In other words, putting in bugs in random locations and random "type" and then see how many are caught by the test suite.

My hacker friend convinced me to switch to Mac. It's a great host OS to run your virtual machines. (And fun to explore something different.)

Whoa... How about just chop off the end and put a new one on? I was intimidated by this until a friend laughed it off as easy. $30 in tools/parts investment and now I just make cables as needed.

US Post office...? Though maybe I'm showing my ignorance. I just assumed that you had to physically mail these out by the end of January.

With things "tax related", I mostly just go with the flow, get the numbers right, and move onto the next thing.

Neck tingles... I gotta say that rarely does a post hit at the right time so well. Thank you.

It makes me want to ask an interviewer to code a solution to fizzbuzz or solve a riddle.

I read about someone pledged to give money to the KKK if she ever smoked again. The negative association was motivational. The strength of the feeling was stronger than the urge to break the habit.

No worries... That's what I do today. It's a good find regardless.

Super excited until I realized that I need CS3 or newer for a recent OSX.

I don't agree...

Planning is only guessing if you don't use it to think through decisions ahead of time. You can also use it to test assumptions and make plans based on the outcomes.

I'm very excited about your idea. I've worked with some of their APIs and they are definitely lacking.