Monthly Archives: January 2007

How to become a Jolt Award Finalist

By Dennis Gurock | Published: January 22, 2007
I found this interesting article by Andrew Binstock on Larry O’Brien’s blog. It explains how the judges of the Jolt Award rate development tools and what vendors can do to make their products look better and easier to evaluate. This post, however, focuses on a common query from vendors whose products did not advance to the [...]
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Free VMware Server in action

By Dennis Gurock | Published: January 14, 2007
We planned to move our physical servers over to virtual VMware machines for quite some time now and finally purchased and set up our new system at the end of last year. As our experience might be useful for some people who plan the same, I decided to describe our solution and comment on the [...]
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SmartInspect gets full Unicode support

By Dennis Gurock | Published: January 11, 2007
We are happy to announce that the upcoming major version of SmartInspect will come with full Unicode support. The current version is limited to logging and displaying ANSI strings and we think that this just isn’t suitable for a modern Windows application anymore. All components of SmartInspect (the log format, libraries, Console and Configuration Builder) have [...]
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SmartInspect 2.0: View enhancements

By Tobias Gurock | Published: January 3, 2007
Several new features have been added to the views in the SmartInspect Console. First, the views now support inverse filtering. This means you can now specify if a certain result for a filter should be inverted. As an example, it is now possible to limit a view to log entries whose session differs from the [...]
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