I have learned enough lately configuring and installing BIND9, that I mustered up the courage to get it running on 127.0.0.1 (theres no place like home).

Using this new fangled Google machine, I drummed up this tasty post.  OSX comes packaged with BIND (named is the daemon name), but it is disabled.  This post gets you setup and running.

The important thing I have to add to this topic, is that I could not for the life of me figure out what I added my local zone file called mysite.local (versus mysite.com for a production BIND DNS server) it would not respond to queries.  Back to the google.

I search for the phrase "osx bind cant ping local domain", and wouldn't you know it, the Google machine came through again.  I found this post dating back from 2002 that solved the problem.  Seeing the date of 2002, I was skeptical since BIND has had some many advances since then, and of course OSX is a totally different beast, but I was desperate.  Low and behold they were correct though.  It appears that Bonjour will snag queries for domains with TLD of ".local", thereby cutting BIND completely out of the deal.

I am sure that there is some configuration that could get one past this, but I am fine just moving my local development domains to .net and calling it a job well done.

Thanks Google machine, what in the world would I do without you! (No seriously, I realized the other day, that I would be 1/100th the programmer I am today, not to mention the productivity and speed, without modern search engines like Google).

hg st | grep ? | sed 's/? *//' | xargs hg add

Break it down for ya.  Remember the "|" unix character takes the results of stdout and pipes that as the inputs to the next chain in the command.  For the purposes of explanation, assume I were to create a file called testfile.js in the "js" directory in my repo directory.

1. hg st - this displays the files in an hg repo that are currently not versioned in the repo.  Results are sent to stdout.

Results:

? js/testfile.js

2. grep ? - This looks at each line and returns it valid if there is a ? in the string.

Results:

? js/testfile.js

3. sed 's/? *//' - sed is an awesome text tool for performing operations on text,  in this case a executing a regex on each line that removes that ? from the text.  This is important because the next command does not recognize "?" as in the filename.

Results:

js/testfile.js

4. xargs hg add - Finally, we execute the command on the sanitized string.

A js/testfile.js

Enjoy!

http://gamesbyemail.com/WoodTape/Default.htm

I hope to follow my kids and learn from them as much as they learn from me.

This looks pretty cool.  Going to look into this for the work I am doing with node.js

More on this channel in the near future.

http://amplifyjs.com/

I figured I would dedicate this evening's programming listening pleasure to Peter Gabriel.

Also, could not leave out another wonder of the late 70's early 80's .. The Police.

PROGRAMMING FUEL!