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!
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 […]
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 […]
The current SmartInspect version already comes with options to rotate log files. Rotating log files and archiving logs is useful to keep the size of individual log files small and to limit the amount of disk space your log files consume. SmartInspect 3.0 introduces a completely redesigned log rotation feature to make it more flexible […]
There are many smaller improvements in the SmartInspect libraries that don’t warrant their own blog postings. Here are a few of those features at a glance:
Reconnect Interval
The new reconnect interval protocol option allows you to configure how often the library should try to (re-)establish a connection. This allows you to specify, for example, that SmartInspect […]
Besides adding support for the new major features of SmartInspect 3.0 (pipe protocol, log file encryption etc), we also added other new things to the SmartInspect Console:
Sort Packets
The SmartInspect Console already allows you to open multiple log files at the same time. However, the Console currently only adds log entries to the bottom of the […]
LINQ and LINQ to SQL, Microsoft’s data querying language and ORM for .NET and SQL Server, allows developers to easily query databases without writing data access code or SQL statements. Although Microsoft built a great abstraction for working with data and made it a lot easier to build queries, it’s often still useful to take […]
With SmartInspect 3.0 we are introducing a complete new (service) application : the SmartInspect Router. The Router can receive logging data via TCP/IP and named pipes from multiple applications and besides other things, route it to log files.
The SmartInspect Router service application is ideal for debugging and monitoring complex production systems. And because the Router […]
Also part of SmartInspect 3.0 is a new protocol for transferring log data to the Console over named pipes. Why did we add another live logging protocol to SmartInspect when there’s already the TCP protocol?
Named pipes have two significant advantages. They are way faster (factor 2-3 in our tests) and a (re-)connect attempt is just […]
Also new in SmartInspect 3.0 is encryption support for log files. It is not unusual to write proprietary and sensitive information (such as implementation details) to log files that have to be protected from third-parties or even customers.
Some SmartInspect users have already implemented encryption support on their own and we are happy that the upcoming […]
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