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 ...

Learn how to leverage configuration files to customize PowerShell scripts, including language, formatting and display settings, in this conclusion to a three-part series. In the previous article in ...

I can't get mplayer to come up with lirc support. In my .mplayer/config I've entered -lircconf and the name of my home/klipp/.lircrc file, like so:<BR><BR>.mplayer ...

Configuration parameters are the values that allow you to configure the behavior of your applications without changing any code. These values control how parts of the application look or act. String ...

Novice programmers rarely see the value in externalized configuration. It's tedious and doesn't result in an immediate payoff. That means this task is often overlooked or done poorly, if at all. For ...

In my previous article in this series, I explained that you can make your PowerShell scripts far more flexible and dynamic by leveraging a configuration file as opposed to hard coding all of the ...

{ ----- Example "Purdue" realm ----- } REALM NAME Purdue { human-friendly realm name } ID 1 { numeric realm ID } SADMIN 0 { PUID of realm super-administrator } ETYPE ldes { long-DES encryption used ...

Windows 10 May 2019 Update (version 1903) included a new feature called the Windows Sandbox that allows you to safely run applications in isolation from the rest of the operating system. When you ...

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. That then leads to the question about where all of these variously scoped Linux and Windows git ...

Often while working on your Windows 11/10 computer, you may come across CFG extension files. One may perceive these files to be complicated in nature, and they are so. Files with a CFG or a CONFIG ...