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Using SmartInspect with madExcept

By Dennis Gurock | Published: December 17, 2008
Inspired by our recent article about using EurekaLog together with SmartInspect, SmartInspect user Jeremy Brown ported our example to madExcept and kindly provided us with screenshots and sample code. The example project demonstrates how to attach an event handler to madExcept and add a SmartInspect log file to madExept’s crash report whenever an unhandled exception [...]
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Integrating SmartInspect with EurekaLog

By Dennis Gurock | Published: December 10, 2008
“Integrating SmartInspect‘s logging capabilities and EurekaLog‘s exception reporting mechanism is a great way to improve the reliability of your Delphi applications. Used together, these two tools allow you to easily report and solve errors that your customers and users experience.” “The approach explained [in this article] is already being used by numerous customers and has [...]
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Get your programming T-shirt for Christmas!

By Dennis Gurock | Published: November 26, 2008
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 [...]
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Our response: SmartInspect license WTF

By Dennis Gurock | Published: November 22, 2008
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 [...]
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SmartInspect for PHP logging

By Dennis Gurock | Published: October 6, 2008
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

By Dennis Gurock | Published: September 18, 2008
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 [...]
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Google Chrome is out

By Dennis Gurock | Published: September 2, 2008
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 [...]
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New Delphi Podcast

By Dennis Gurock | Published: August 18, 2008
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

By Dennis Gurock | Published: August 12, 2008
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 [...]
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Redesigned log file rotation in SmartInspect 3.0

By Dennis Gurock | Published: August 6, 2008
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 [...]
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