Disclosed is a system and method of creating a build on a computer. The process involves special files which are checked into a version controlling system. One of these files includes only those parameters which are particular to the environment in the build is going to occur. This file may be edited by the programmer, enabling that programmer to configure the application for different environments. These environmental configurations by simply editing the environmental file on the first computing device, and these changes will later be propagated to all the server classes in the second computing device that make up the application.