configuration-files

I use multiple workspaces with Eclipse. I recently noticed that some of my workspaces have a lot of cruft in them from software packages that I installed and then later removed. As far as I can tell, the situation is that many packages write stuff (sometimes a lot of stuff) to the .metadata folder for every workspace I open while the package was installed. When I removed a package, it seems to clean out the .metadata folder for the workspace that I happen to have open at the time, but all the other workspaces are left with orphaned metadata. Sometimes this metadata causes problems—often,

What is the best way and how to set up a config file for a application? I want the application to be able to look into a text file on the sd card and pick out certain information that it requires ? You can achieve this using shared preferences There is a very detailed guide on how to use Shared Preferences on the Google Android page https://developer.android.com/guide/topics/data/data-storage.html#pref If your application is going to be released to the public and if you have sensitive data in your config such as API keys or passwords I would suggest to use secure-preferences instead of

According to yaml.org , the official file extension is .yaml . Quote: Is there an official extension for YAML files? Please use ".yaml" when possible. However there seems to be a disagreement on the internet on which extension to use. If you look up examples on the web , many of them use the unsanctioned .yml extension. Searching Google returns nearly 3 times as many results for the shorter one. 49,100 15,400 So which am I supposed to use? The proper 4 letter extension suggested by the creator, or the 3 letter extension found in the wild west of the internet? The nature and even existence of

I'm new at Go programming, and I'm wondering: what is the preferred way to handle configuration parameters for a Go program (the kind of stuff one might use properties files or ini files for, in other contexts)? nemo The JSON format worked for me quite well. The standard library offers methods to write the data structure indented, so it is quite readable. See also this golang-nuts thread . The benefits of JSON are that it is fairly simple to parse and human readable/editable while offering semantics for lists and mappings (which can become quite handy), which is not the case with many ini-type

Imagine a software system where you have like 100 parameters, each of which is sensible to change (in my case this is a reasearch system for machine learning). The obvious solution is to store all parameters in a config file, so that the system is easy to handle and see through. Whis approach is better: a) load the config file at the entry point of the program and pass down a big collection of config variables through each method in the code b) load the config file at the entry point of the program and pass down the relevant collection of config variables through each method in the code c)