I just looked at our blog statistics to find out how often search engine spiders, such as the MSNBot or Googlebot, visit this site and how many pages they index. As it turns out, the Googlebot either doesn’t like our site that much or it has serious capacity problems. Compared to other search engine spiders, […]
“I will highlight two problem areas where many programs, including popular ones, make wrong assumptions and therefore contain bugs on multi-monitor machines. In fact, we have been affected by one of these problems ourselves. A customer reported that the SmartInspect Console isn’t restored correctly when it’s closed on a non-primary monitor in maximized state. We […]
We just released the 1.1 version of SmartInspect. This update is free of charge for registered customers and can be downloaded at My Gurock.com. The trial and free Personal edition can be downloaded from our Download section.
Besides a few bug fixes and usability tweaks, we added several often requested features like support for multiple filter […]
Today we started to prepare the release of the upcoming SmartInspect 1.1 version. We originally intended to release it a week earlier, but due to two annoying showstoppers and an illness of Dennis (just a heavy cold, nothing dramatic), we were forced to delay it.
Since the beginning of the development of the 1.1 version, we’ve […]
Over at CodeSnipers, Gavin Bowman started a series about common micro ISV mistakes. In his first post of this series, he talks about the mistake of keeping a product idea secret until you release it. Very interesting read and so true.
Here at Gurock Software, we’ve done exactly the same mistake. We kept SmartInspect secret until […]
If you want Visual Studio to draw a vertical rule in the text editor just like Delphi does, then you’ve come to the right place. According to this posting, you can get one by simply adding a new value to the following registry key:
HKCU\\Software\\Microsoft\\VisualStudio\\7.1\\Text Editor
The value to add is a string called “Guides”. Now, just […]
“Although the .NET framework contains all kinds of exception types which are sufficient in most cases, it can make sense to define custom exceptions in your own applications. They can greatly simplify and improve the error handling and thus increase the overall code quality. Whatever your reasons are for using custom exceptions, this article shows […]
I finally found some time to install and test ViEmu, a vi emulation add-in for Visual Studio released two weeks ago. In case you don’t know what I’m talking about, this ‘vi’ thing is a very popular editor for Unix and Linux and ViEmu emulates its input model within the Visual Studio environment.
Although I use […]
Yesterday, Mike Gunderloy announced a new Larkware programming contest:
“As you undoubtedly know by now, the release of Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 and Microsoft SQL Server 2005 is scheduled for the week of November 7. That’s just three months from now, and the current beta versions are plenty solid enough to build some useful and interesting […]
After announcing DelphiFeeds.com previously, I decided to post some notes about the technical details involved in creating this website.
The technical backend of DelphiFeeds uses a simple Python script to collect the different site feeds. This script is run periodically via cron. It uses the great Universal Feed Parser to download and parse the feeds and […]
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