Category Archives: DelphiFeeds.com

SmartInspect now supports Delphi 2010

We have just released a new version of our .NET, Java and Delphi logging tool SmartInspect that supports the new Delphi 2010. Embarcadero’s latest Delphi version looks like a very solid release and we have seen other people report that there are good chances that Delphi 2010 will become the new reference version for many [...]
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SQLite logging for Delphi with SmartInspect

David Lambert was kind enough to send us his very nice SmartInspect SQLite logging protocol for Delphi and allowed us to make it available on our website. It can be used to write SmartInspect logging data to an SQLite database instead of typical log files, allowing for customized filtering and analysis with SQL tools. This [...]
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New DelphiFeeds.com launched

We have just switched DelphiFeeds.com to the new website, after it has been tested by around 50 users in the past 2 weeks (all beta accounts and data have been moved to the new site, too, of course). Thanks to everyone who tested the new site and provided feedback! As a result of the feedback [...]
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New DelphiFeeds.com Beta now online

We are very happy to announce a new beta of DelphiFeeds.com! We designed and developed the new site to be a mix of Digg, Stack Overflow and the old DelphiFeeds.com, allowing you to vote for postings, marking items off-topic and saving the best postings as favorites. Popular postings, i.e. postings with many votes, are promoted to [...]
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SmartInspect 3.2: new build available

I’ve just uploaded a new build of SmartInspect 3.2. The new build contains an important fix for a problem where the SmartInspect Console may become unresponsive/locked for a few seconds (while loading a log file or scrolling a view, for example). The exact version number of the new build is 3.2.0.8546. If you’ve already downloaded [...]
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Delphi 2009 and backwards compatibility

In a recent blog post I saw on DelphiFeeds.com, Babnik argues that Delphi 2009 should have been compatible with older Delphi versions by still treating String as an AnsiString and introducing a parallel VCL with UnicodeStrings (think TEdit vs. TEditW). I don’t think this would have been a good idea. I understand that there are many [...]
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SmartInspect 3.2 is available

We are happy to announce the release of SmartInspect 3.2. Besides adding some often requested features to the Console and logging libraries, we made some major changes to the SmartInspect Console in how it loads and processes log files, reducing the memory usage during log file loading drastically and making it faster in general. We’ve also [...]
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New SmartInspect beta versions

We’ve just uploaded a new beta build for the upcoming SmartInspect 3.2.0 release. The exact version number is 3.2.0.8496. This build integrates several additional techniques to reduce the memory consumption of the SmartInspect Console, the most important being a new string pool for caching and reusing strings. You can read more about this string pool [...]
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Free SmartInspect licenses for user groups and developer events

We have offered free SmartInspect licenses as a raffle prize to user groups in the past and have sent license vouchers and SmartInspect flyers to dozens of .NET, Java and Delphi user groups and events. We want to  repeat the success of this promotion and are offering free licenses of SmartInspect 3.x to interested [...]
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Our new software quality blog

We’ve been planning to post more general content related to software quality on this blog for some time now, but have instead decided to launch a completely new blog dedicated to software quality. We feel that a lot of readers who would be interested in a general software quality blog would be put off by [...]
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