Author Archives: Dennis Gurock

Get your programming T-shirt for Christmas!

Andy Brice, developer of PerfectTablePlan, just launched a shop with fun programming T-shirts to generate donations for two worthwhile charities. All commissions from the T-shirt sales are split between Jaipur Foot and Sightsavers International.
Buy a T-shirt
You can help by buying a T-shirt from the shop or by forwarding Andy’s posting to friends and colleagues. Andy […]

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Our response: SmartInspect license WTF

We were surprised to see a rather negative posting on Joe White’s blog about the SmartInspect license agreement. We were especially surprised about his posting because we believe that our license is actually one of the more reasonable agreements out there.
We value Joe’s feedback and want to clarify some of his points (we also tried […]

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SmartInspect Praise

Ryan Wheeler, a SmartInspect user and developer of Microsoft SharePoint add-ons, recently published an entry about our logging tool on his blog:
“It’s blindingly fast, easy to use, clear and has all manner of time saving features - easy navigation, graphs, filters, colours and much more. Yes the software is a few hundred dollars but will […]

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SmartInspect for PHP logging

We just uploaded a minimal SmartInspect logging library implementation for PHP. The library only supports logging via TCP to a local or remote SmartInspect Console instance and doesn’t contain all log methods and features that are available in the main libraries. However, it already supports multiple logging sessions, watches and useful log methods such as […]

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SmartInspect 3.1 with Delphi 2009 support released

We just released SmartInspect 3.1 with full support for Delphi 2009 and C++ Builder 2009. All changes of the new SmartInspect version at-a-glance:

Added: Full support for Delphi and C++Builder 2009
Changed: Named pipes are now opened in exclusive mode by the Console
Fixed: Session loading via configuration files is now case insensitive
Fixed: A possible exception when opening […]

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Google Chrome is out

The first beta version of Google Chrome just went online. I’m impressed by the clean user interface and by the speed of Google’s new browser.

In case you haven’t heard about Google Chrome yet, read this clever comic that introduces Chrome’s innovative features. Oh and in case you wonder, the Google Chrome user agent string looks […]

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New SmartInspect Reviews

We love reviews of SmartInspect, especially when they are as positive as the following ones. Jay Kimble reviewed SmartInspect for The Runtime and Dave just posted a SmartInspect review on his TDelphiHobbyist blog. Here are some quotes:
“What I really liked was that the SmartInspect log console feels like [Visual Studio] and is a TCP/IP server […]

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New Delphi Podcast

Jim McKeeth just published the first episode of his new Delphi podcast at Delphi.org. In his first episode, Jim introduces the new features of the upcoming Delphi version code named Tiburon. Great to see a new Delphi podcast. Good luck Jim!

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SmartInspect 3.0 has been released

We are really happy to announce the immediate availability of SmartInspect 3.0. We have put many months of work into this release, discussed new features with dozens of our loyal customers and incorporated numerous features, enhancements and bug fixes.
This version introduces a new log server application (SmartInspect Router), a high-performance named pipe protocol for local […]

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Keyword research with Google Insights for Search

A few days ago, Google released a useful new tool called Google Insights for Search that helps advertisers research keywords and understand search trends (via Jitbit).

Although most of the presented data is already available via other Google tools such as Google Trends and the Google Keyword Tool, Google Insights presents the data in a very […]

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