Category Archives: DelphiFeeds.com

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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 developer [...]
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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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SmartInspect 3.2 EAP (beta) version available

We just uploaded a new Early Access Program build of SmartInspect 3.2 to our customer portal. 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 [...]
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The Future of the Delphi Compiler

Nick Hodges just published an interesting article about the future of the Delphi and C++ compiler. The article states that a preview version of the 64-bit compiler will be available in mid-2009 and the final version is expected to be available sometime mid-2010. Although this is quite a change in the roadmap, I think Nick [...]
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Merry Christmas

We here at Gurock Software wish you all a merry Christmas. We are taking a few days off and will be back early next week. Enjoy the holidays and have a great time!
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