Monthly Archives: March 2006

Smart marketing move for ViEmu

By Dennis Gurock | Published: March 29, 2006
In case you are not subscribed to J’s The growing pains of NGEDIT blog (which you should be!), you may have missed a smart marketing move from him: He designed a graphical key overview and tutorial for vi/vim. What’s so smart about it you may ask? Well, he submitted the link to delicious and reddit [...]
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Allowing usage on more than one computer

By Dennis Gurock | Published: March 23, 2006
Alex King wrote a posting about the Zend Studio PHP IDE where he reports that you are actually allowed to use a license on more than one computer even though the license text states otherwise. He also emphasizes that there are no developers who use only one computer these days. When we started developing SmartInspect we [...]
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SmartInspect nominated for asp.netPRO award

By Dennis Gurock | Published: March 21, 2006
SmartInspect has been nominated for the asp.netPRO Readers’ Choice award: “Each year, asp.netPRO recognizes outstanding products and vendors in the ASP.NET add-on market. Please take a moment to select your favorite ASP.NET tools. This is your chance to voice your opinions regarding the tools and products you use in your everyday development efforts.” If you like SmartInspect [...]
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Why we discontinued our free Personal edition

By Dennis Gurock | Published: March 14, 2006
I wrote a guest posting for the My Micro-ISV blog that explains why we discontinued the free Personal edition of SmartInspect: Our free personal edition was a failure Everyone who thinks about releasing a free edition of their product as a marketing move should read it and learn from our mistake (or not: maybe it works for [...]
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Google Analytics alternative

By Dennis Gurock | Published: March 13, 2006
After the Google Analytics downtime last week, I decided to check out some alternatives to track things like campaigns, trial downloads and sales. We are using AWStats for the general traffic analysis, but it isn’t effective for conversion tracking. So, after looking at some of the available options, I found Stuffed Tracker from Stuffed Guys. [...]
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Google Analytics is down

By Dennis Gurock | Published: March 9, 2006
Google Analytics has been down several hours today (and still has sporadic problems). The problem was that the Java Script file that is hosted by Google and which is included in all tracked websites couldn’t be downloaded anymore. This means that all websites that use Google Analytics have been down, too. Browsers don’t render a [...]
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