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Dad

Wednesday, November 11th, 2009

It appears that the folks at Shapiro’s Deli are almost as proud of Dad as I am…

Move over TED prize…

Monday, December 15th, 2008

I’ve seen some amazing TED Talks, but Dad does it better.  Do I sound biased?  I’m not sure he could do it justice in only 18 minutes, but I’d rate this presentation over most of the TED Talks I’ve seen to date.

Apache mod_rewrite: rewriting URLs based on HTTPS vs. HTTP

Wednesday, October 29th, 2008

On occasion it’s helpful to be able to pass both SSL and non-SSL requests through the same Apache configuration file.  Using mod_write‘s RewriteCond and RewriteRule, you can perform URL rewriting differently depending on whether or not the connection is via HTTPS: # For SSL connections %{HTTPS} is “on” — the following will # permanently redirect [...]

Keiahooooooooooooo!

Sunday, October 12th, 2008

When Lorrie offered to get me a Colts jersey last year, I had to pick a player.  That’s when I saw Freddy Keiaho single-handedly (literally, since one hand was in a cast at the time) tackle both the blocker and the ball carrier in one fell swoop.  I saw his passion and I knew that [...]

jEdit won’t start after OS X Java update

Wednesday, October 8th, 2008

I noticed that jEdit would no longer start on my MacBook Pro with OS X 10.5.5.  I’d try to run jEdit via Quicksilver as usual, but it wouldn’t open.  Double-clicking on the jEdit application icon was just as useless.  Nothing happened.  I checked for anything that could be blocking it and restarted my laptop with [...]

Twice as fast. Half the battery life.

Sunday, July 13th, 2008

I’m enjoying my new iPhone 3G, though I haven’t gotten much time on a 3G network with it yet (at the summer cottage this weekend). Had to get a white one to get 16 gig (even though I was about 30th in line, the AT&T store had already sold out of black). It has noticeably [...]

Welcome to Burkeware.com!

Tuesday, January 3rd, 2006

Burkeware™ brings you Kidometer, a simple grep for Windows®, the Regular Expression Playground, and a long proud history of buggy code that often requires reboots of your computer.