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How to best distribute client specific configuration settings
I'm writing a WinForms desktop application which will be shipped out to several different clients and am wondering what the best way to implement a user configuration file is. Normally I would use the ...
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What's a good strategy for managing static data in an SOA?
I'm working on a web application that sits on top of a number of RESTful web services, interacting primarily with those services through JSON formatted messages over HTTP. Our application has a great ...
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Config Manager / Release Manager / Build Manager [closed]
Our company is making an internal project and they have assigned us mock positions for this. I was assigned as a Config Manager / Release Manager / Build Manager.. but i am clueless what to study in ...
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What problems do configuration management tools solve?
My company is creating a service in an Amazon Virtual Private Cloud. Without getting too much into the details, there will be about 5 different types of servers, and each type will need to be ...
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technique for checking modifications in configuration file while starting up a program
I'm writing a software for periodically checking a specific range of networked devices' reach-ability. I'm specifying the address range and the time frequency for checking their reachability, in an ...
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Database-stored configuration management
Developing database-backed software, often one finds it convenient to store stuff in the database which one might traditionally express in code, but which is useful to store in the database (so that ...
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User Configuration of a Shell Script. Best practices?
I am writing a shell script with a few variables that should be configured by the user. There will be an installer for downloading and configuring the script, possibly by asking a series of question. ...
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Are external configuration files considered an antipattern?
Many times I have been in a situation where an application is apparently broken, only to find that an external configuration file has been at fault. Typically this is because the wrong file is there, ...
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Should program behavior be modified using a config file or environmental variables?
I'm referring to *nix command line applications primarily, where you want to permanently modify the behavior from defaults.
Environmental variables are easily understood and implemented, usually ...
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INI files or Registry or personal files?
I want to save the configuration of my project which includes
Screen size
Screen position
Folder paths
Users settings and so on.
The standard places where you can save these are configuration ...
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Version control and personal configuration file
Our project uses a user-specific configuration file. This file is currently not in version control, since it is different for each user. The problem is, whenever a developer adds a new module that ...
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When and how to use the advanced features of git?
I'm not exactly a new git user but I have never used any of its advanced features such as tags, branches, merging and others. I haven't even used anything equivalent features from other VCS software. ...
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Who is Configuration Manager?
I would like to ask members of the community about the role of Configuration Manager, as you see it. I'm not asking what Configuration Management is, as long it had been asked before. What I need to ...
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Mercurial Repository structure with heavyweight corporate comms, configuration management & test requirements
I am yet another Subversion user struggling to re-educate myself in the Tao of distributed version control.
When using Subversion, I was a big fan of the project-minor approach, and, with most of my ...
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How fast should a version number increment?
Some version numbers increase very quickly (like firefox and google chrome) and others don't (like cloudapp and the ubuntu kernel). I'm kinda thinking that the developer chooses how fast the number ...
