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 ...

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. There’s a recent article on TheServerSide that hopefully reminded Hibernate and JPA developers ...

These two formats are a lot more similar than their acronyms suggest.

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 ...

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. Fundamentally, these two file formats provide the exact same functionality. Any property that ...