Monthly Archives: August 2005

Announcing DelphiFeeds.com

By Tobias Gurock | August 7, 2005

Dennis previously asked for links to dedicated Delphi blogs. We got a few responses and several links to nice blogs. Thanks for that!
We originally intended to improve our existing intranet with all kinds of Delphi blogs. Be it blogs of the Borland employees or enthusiastic Delphi users, we would always know what’s happening in the […]

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Every tag counts

By Dennis Gurock | August 5, 2005

While investigating the search engine ranking for www.gurock.com, I noticed that Google doesn’t index our site in an optimal way. If you look at all the indexed pages of our site on Google, you will notice that a lot of pages have the same description. The description contains a part of the Meta description tag, […]

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Enhancing code comments with voice recordings?

By Tobias Gurock | August 4, 2005

Yesterday I found a preview of an add-in for the Visual Studio family which lets you add voice recordings to your code comments. It’s called VoiceComments.
Here’s how it works. VoiceComments basically lets you record your voice and inserts a special link to the recording into your code. This link is a normal text comment and […]

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Screenshot of our build machine

By Tobias Gurock | August 3, 2005

After explaining the basics and technical details of our build system, I made a screenshot of our build machine in case you wonder how it looks like:

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Getting Microsoft dev and test licenses almost for free

By Dennis Gurock |

“This means that for a software shop with five developers, it would cost USD $12,500 per year to get all the required development and testing licenses – and this doesn’t even include production licenses for a workgroup server or something similar. This is quite expensive for an early-stage ISV. But since Microsoft really wants you […]

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Explaining our build system – Part II

By Tobias Gurock | August 2, 2005

I previously explained the basics of our build system for SmartInspect. This part goes further and tells more about the technical details.
As mentioned, we just need to enter the `make’ command to start a new build. Make is a tool for automated builds created and maintained by the GNU project. The input for make is […]

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Followup to Offering a free edition

By Tobias Gurock | August 1, 2005

After publishing my latest article Offering a Free Edition of Your Software as Marketing Boost I got several questions about the conversion rate of our Personal edition.
As written in the article, we got thousands of downloads of the Personal edition and we know of several customers who used the Personal edition before purchasing the full […]

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