Configuration files are an important component of your workflow. They provide both security when sharing code and standardization when working across multiple environments (e.g. Stata and R).

The great thing about tools is that you often can misuse them for a completely different purpose. The end of a screwdriver makes a passable hammer; a butter knife can be a screwdriver, and even a ...

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 ...

I've been all over Google trying to find a solution to this but the results so far have not worked and/or I'm missing something obvious. So the basic problem is. I have an existing inherited C# ...

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 ...