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 ...

This is an obvious point, but there are still many legacy applications that have not moved to an environment that supports annotations. If you are looking at supporting older applications, you simply ...

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. Java web frameworks popular at the turn of the century are often slagged for their reliance on ...

VB.NET's AppSettings class lets you save settings easily. They go into an XML file named YourAppName.config, and you're all set. That is, unless you're working on a solution with multiple executables ...

The Apache Jakarta site is home to many well-known Java open source projects, including Tomcat, Ant, and log4j. A lesser-known subproject of Jakarta is Jakarta Commons, a repository of reusable Java ...

Property lists are essentially XML files with a .plist extension. Here's how to edit them using the command line in the macOS Terminal app. XML is an open data format which gained popularity in the ...

The layout changes can be deployed easily by overwriting the .xml file that contains the layout. No reimaging is required for this purpose. To apply a customized Start layout on the local in Windows ...

In previous blog entries, I demonstrated coding Model MBeans directly (“in the raw”) and using the Spring Framework. In both cases, two primary advantages of Model MBeans (highly descriptive nature ...

XML refers to Extensible Markup Language, which is a language similar to HTML. If you have an XML document, you may be wondering how to open it. Although you can open an XML file in Notepad, the ...

OK, I just want to add in a 5 second step in seeksteps in the advancedsettings.xml file for my Kodi box (newest version of Kodi). I'm watching subtitled stuff and reading it out loud for my ...