I wrote about our newsletter in the past here. As I noted, we decided to use a double opt-in mechanism as “a good prevention against abuse”. This turned out to be a small problem or issue. It seems that only 60% of the people who enter their email address on our newsletter page really confirm […]
Among filtering out packets based on their content like in the previous example, another possible usage of the filter event in SmartInspect would be to cancel packets which exceed a certain maximum packet size. This can be useful to reduce bandwidth or to keep log files small. An example implementation looks like:
using Gurock.SmartInspect;
public class PacketSizeFilter
{
private […]
As you certainly already know, there has been a lot of discussion about Microsoft’s understanding of Test Driven Development (TDD) in the last few days. The entire discussion has been interesting to follow and in case you missed it, here are a few postings about the topic to get you started:
Microsoft Guidelines for TDD Wrong
Microsoft […]
In contrast to the previous SmartInspect releases, I’d like to introduce some of the features for the upcoming release directly after implementing them rather than writing a cumulative preview one or two weeks before the actual release.
Let’s begin with a cool new feature of the SmartInspect libraries – the filter event. In contrast to the […]
Dermot Hogan reviewed SmartInspect Professional for the Bitwise Magazine. Here’s a short quote:
“Initially, I was a little sceptical about SmartInspect. It didn’t seem to offer very much over the usual Trace/Debug facilities available in Visual Studio. But then I started using the SmartInspect console. And I have to say, I was impressed. Very impressed. For […]
If you are using the Trace and Debug classes of the System.Diagnostics namespace of the .NET framework, you might be surprised to see how easy it is to redirect their logging output to the viewer application of SmartInspect, the SmartInspect Console. I’ve written a short article about this topic today and in case you are […]
As you probably already know, Google launched its new Analytics service on Monday. Google Analytics is an advanced web site traffic analysis tool that is based on Urchin, a tool and company Google bought some time ago.
I signed up for Analytics on Monday and added it to this blog for testing purposes. Due to heavy […]
My latest article highlights the advantages and disadvantages of using Borland Delphi for software development in small software businesses. Delphi is often overseen when it comes to choosing a development tool, but it could give you a competitive advantage for your next product. Read this article and decide if Delphi is for you:
Borland Delphi for […]
Some weeks ago I wrote about the importance of landing pages of a website. To summarize, I basically stated that it’s important to choose two, maybe three actions you want visitors to perform when entering a page. Examples for those actions are downloading a trial version or taking the tour of your product.
This time, I’d […]
I just finished reading David Allen’s great book Getting Things Done (or GTD, for short). It describes and helps implementing a system to organize all your tasks, ideas and projects (so called “stuff”). To quote the back cover:
“In today’s world, yesterday’s methods just don’t work. Veteran coach and management consulting David Allen shares his breakthrough […]
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