First things fist: the "Pavarotti-String" design pattern, is not a design pattern :). It's more of a programming practice; and the idea was pitched to me about 3 or 4 years ago. But it can be a real pain if it's ignored in large code bases;
Decoupling your configuration file using the Castle project
Frederik Prijck, a friend and blogger extraordinaire, wrote a blogpost a few days back about the importance of decoupling your configuration file from the rest of your application. Frederik covers the topic pretty thoroughly and I wanted to write a post on how I achieve
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