You can simplify application deployment and customization greatly by keeping as many configuration settings as possible in a configuration file. Configuration files support XCOPY deployment, and you ...

Before you begin deploying applications based on the .NET framework, you need to decide how your organisation will manage common application settings. To promote code reuse and application ...

Declarative Linux distributions do not appeal to everyone. It mentions everything in a single configuration file, and something like NixOS is far from the idea of an “easy” Linux distro. I'm in awe of ...

If you're concerned about keeping critical information in your Web.config file, then you should encrypt it -- or at least the parts that you're concerned about. I love keeping information in my ...

Recently, I have been hard at work, creating some really complex PowerShell scripts related to a few projects that I have been working on. One of the big lessons that I have learned through all of ...