Author Archives: Tobias Gurock
The problem with double opt-in newsletters
I wrote about our newsletter in the past here. As I noted, we decided to use a double opt-in mechanism as “a good prevention against abuse”. This turned out to be a small problem or issue. It seems that only 60% of the people who enter their email address on our newsletter page really confirm [...]
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Filtering out packets based on their size
Among filtering out packets based on their content like in the previous example, another possible usage of the filter event in SmartInspect would be to cancel packets which exceed a certain maximum packet size. This can be useful to reduce bandwidth or to keep log files small. An example implementation looks like: using Gurock.SmartInspect; public [...]
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Test Driven Development
As you certainly already know, there has been a lot of discussion about Microsoft’s understanding of Test Driven Development (TDD) in the last few days. The entire discussion has been interesting to follow and in case you missed it, here are a few postings about the topic to get you started: Microsoft Guidelines for TDD [...]
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Introducing the SmartInspect filter event
In contrast to the previous SmartInspect releases, I’d like to introduce some of the features for the upcoming release directly after implementing them rather than writing a cumulative preview one or two weeks before the actual release. Let’s begin with a cool new feature of the SmartInspect libraries – the filter event. In contrast to [...]
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Improving System.Diagnostics tracing
If you are using the Trace and Debug classes of the System.Diagnostics namespace of the .NET framework, you might be surprised to see how easy it is to redirect their logging output to the viewer application of SmartInspect, the SmartInspect Console. I’ve written a short article about this topic today and in case you are [...]
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Measuring the success of your landing page
Some weeks ago I wrote about the importance of landing pages of a website. To summarize, I basically stated that it’s important to choose two, maybe three actions you want visitors to perform when entering a page. Examples for those actions are downloading a trial version or taking the tour of your product. This time, [...]
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