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JSON configuration file format
JSON is a data interchange format. Should it also be used as a configuration file format, a JSON-CF? Overview Had to write yet another properties file for configuration info. Started to think that...
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Archive files using Ant from Groovy
In Ant The zip task takes a fileset but only creates one archive. How do you zip files into individual archives? Use case One use case for this is log files. Sooner rather then later, every system must...
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Diagnostic Differential Logging with JavaScript Example
Synopsis Reducing the quantity of information to what is essential is very important in maintaining complex software. Modern development environments have debuggers and other tools to assist in this...
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Understanding JSON
There seems to be a little bit of confusion among some developers as to what JSON is. Some think some that JSON is a JavaScript serialization, or that it is just a way to pass JavaScript data around....
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Groovy implementation of INIX file format, part 2
Continued experimentation with the INIX “ini” file format. I take the original post code and add an alias feature. Background In three prior posts I presented a very simple metadata file storage...
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