Monthly Archives: August 2008

New SmartInspect Reviews

By Dennis Gurock | Published: August 28, 2008
We love reviews of SmartInspect, especially when they are as positive as the following ones. Jay Kimble reviewed SmartInspect for The Runtime and Dave just posted a SmartInspect review on his TDelphiHobbyist blog. Here are some quotes: “What I really liked was that the SmartInspect log console feels like [Visual Studio] and is a TCP/IP server [...]
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New Delphi Podcast

By Dennis Gurock | Published: August 18, 2008
Jim McKeeth just published the first episode of his new Delphi podcast at Delphi.org. In his first episode, Jim introduces the new features of the upcoming Delphi version code named Tiburon. Great to see a new Delphi podcast. Good luck Jim!
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SmartInspect 3.0 has been released

By Dennis Gurock | Published: August 12, 2008
We are really happy to announce the immediate availability of SmartInspect 3.0. We have put many months of work into this release, discussed new features with dozens of our loyal customers and incorporated numerous features, enhancements and bug fixes. This version introduces a new log server application (SmartInspect Router), a high-performance named pipe protocol for local [...]
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Keyword research with Google Insights for Search

By Dennis Gurock | Published: August 8, 2008
A few days ago, Google released a useful new tool called Google Insights for Search that helps advertisers research keywords and understand search trends (via Jitbit). Although most of the presented data is already available via other Google tools such as Google Trends and the Google Keyword Tool, Google Insights presents the data in a very [...]
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Redesigned log file rotation in SmartInspect 3.0

By Dennis Gurock | Published: August 6, 2008
The current SmartInspect version already comes with options to rotate log files. Rotating log files and archiving logs is useful to keep the size of individual log files small and to limit the amount of disk space your log files consume. SmartInspect 3.0 introduces a completely redesigned log rotation feature to make it more flexible [...]
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Misc SmartInspect 3.0 Library Improvements

By Dennis Gurock | Published: August 5, 2008
There are many smaller improvements in the SmartInspect libraries that don’t warrant their own blog postings. Here are a few of those features at a glance: Reconnect Interval The new reconnect interval protocol option allows you to configure how often the library should try to (re-)establish a connection. This allows you to specify, for example, that SmartInspect [...]
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New SmartInspect 3.0 Console features

By Dennis Gurock | Published: August 4, 2008
Besides adding support for the new major features of SmartInspect 3.0 (pipe protocol, log file encryption etc), we also added other new things to the SmartInspect Console: Sort Packets The SmartInspect Console already allows you to open multiple log files at the same time. However, the Console currently only adds log entries to the bottom of the [...]
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LINQ Logging with SmartInspect 3.0

By Dennis Gurock | Published: August 1, 2008
LINQ and LINQ to SQL, Microsoft’s data querying language and ORM for .NET and SQL Server, allows developers to easily query databases without writing data access code or SQL statements. Although Microsoft built a great abstraction for working with data and made it a lot easier to build queries, it’s often still useful to take [...]
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