Additionally, we wanted to separate DelphiFeeds.com and our blog from our website for performance and security reasons, so we also put those sites on different machines. The good news is that our websites should become a lot faster because of the server move, especially DelphiFeeds.com. If you notice any problems, we would appreciate a quick email.

We wish all customers, friends and partners happy holidays and a successful new year 2010! We had a great year here at Gurock Software and reached some important milestones such as completing a critical customer project, launching our new website, improving SmartInspect, relaunching DelphiFeeds.com and releasing the first TestRail beta.

Next year will definitely be an interesting (and busy!) one for us and we will start with releasing TestRail in January, moving to a new office (again) and relaunching our customer portal and online shop.

We are looking forward to working with you again next year!

As you might already know, SmartInspect already fully supports Unicode and porting SmartInspect to Tiburon was quite easy and took only a few days of work overall. The SmartInspect Delphi library is now using UnicodeString as the main string type instead of WideString. Porting the library to UnicodeString had a positive impact on the performance of our logging library as the new UnicodeString is reference counted (and WideString is not). The performance gain is about 10-15%, but we do not have final numbers yet.

We are happy to see that Delphi will finally be 100% Unicodified soon, too, as this makes it really easy to build applications for an international audience. We fully expect to be releasing support for Tiburon and UnicodeString with SmartInspect just a few days after the new Delphi version goes gold.