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marc hoffman

marc hoffman

Chief Architect and CEO here at RemObjects Software. Project Manager for Elements and lead developer of Fire, our awesome development environment for the Mac.

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Dogfooding the new "Oxygene 5" Compiler

Here at RemObjects, we’ve always been great fans of so-called “dogfooding” – the act of using your own products early on in the beta cycle. As you know, we create developer products, and

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Sneak Peek: Duck Typing and "Soft Interfaces" in Delphi Prism XE2 and Cooper

One of the new language features in the upcoming Oxygene 5 compiler is support for duck typing and what we call “soft interfaces”. The name “duck typing” comes from the old saying that

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A Quick Preview of Some Cool Editor Enhancements Coming in Delphi Prism XE2 and Project Cooper.

In Delphi Prism XE Update 1, this spring, we introduced a cool new concept to the editor: Inline Errors. When you compile your code project(s), you no longer have to look down

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Objective-C ARC with the LLVM Compiler 3.0

One of the most exciting new things introduced at this years WWDC were the ARC (short for Automatic Reference Counting) extensions for Objective-C that Apple’s compiler team has added to the new

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Feature Focus: Business Rules Scripting

Today, we’ve released a whole bunch of cool stuff, that vaguely focuses around the Business Rules Scripting feature in Data Abstract and Relativity Server (and incidentally one of my favorite features in

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My iPhone 4 Tracking Data

Before any “[bad actors](http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2011/04/senator-questions-apple-in-wake-of-ios-tracking-scandal.ars)” make off with my [iPhone tracking data](http://petewarden.github.com/iPhoneTracker/) (is Hollywood really running out of ideas that

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Spring 2011

It’s the time of the year again: i am very happy to announce the immediate availability of the “Spring 2011” releases of out entire product suite. Point your browsers to portal.remobjects.

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WWDC 2011 Tickets are On Sale

Apple’s annual World Wide Developer Conference (WWDC) in San Francisco has just been announced and opened for registration today. I already got my ticket, and i’m looking forward to seeing many

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Xcode 4 is Out!

For those of you who missed the news, Apple has finally released the all new Xcode 4, which it first previewed at WWDC 2010 last June. Xcode 4 is a major new version

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Sisters Trip the Light Fatastic

I’ve just got back from Vegas, but my traveling day’s aren’t over, yet. It’s that time of the decade again, and a few hours from now a friend of

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DSConf in Review

![DSConf](http://blogs.remobjects.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/DSConf-600w.png "DSConf")It’s Monday February 14, 3AM and i’m jet-lagged and back home from Las Vegas, where our three-day [Developer Solution

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“Cooper”

“Harry, I have no idea where this will lead us, but I have a definite feeling it will be a place both wonderful and strange.” — Special Agent Dale Cooper![11.png](http://blogs.

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Only Two Weeks till DSConf Las Vegas!

It’s Tuesday January 25, and we’re only two weeks away from DSConf Las Vegas, the first of our Developer Solutions Conferences that RemObjects Software is putting on in partnership with our

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“Oxfuscator” Code Obfuscation for Visual Studio Now Available!

Hi everyone. It’s been pretty much a year since i posted the first sneak peak at Oxfuscator, our IDE-integrated code obfuscation solution for Visual Studio in this blog post, and a few

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DSConf, Special Holiday Offer

If you have been holding out on getting your ticket for DSConf Las Vegas so far, now is your chance to save 15%, by taking advantage of the Special Holiday Offer: ![](http://www.

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Meet Us in Las Vegas!

As you might already have heard about yesterday when the website went up, we haven’t had enough of conferences, yet – to the extent that we’ve partnered up with the guys over

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November Events

2010 has already been a busy year for us, but we’re not stopping, yet. We got two (three, really) very exciting events coming up this November. First, we are proud sponsors of

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"Fog & Sea" HDR

I haven’t done much HDR recently, but i was surprised and delighted by the outcome of this 9-exposure HDR (taken this June in San Francisco’s north-west corner) i processed today. i

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(A bit belatedly) Introducing RemObjects Radio

So i haven’t really talked about it on the blog here much, but a few weeks back we started our own podcast here at RemObjects, titled RemObjects Radio. You have probably seen

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Why Choose!?

In part inspired by some of the great and positive feedback we received on Hydra at Delphi Live late last month, we have started a new marketing campaign around the product, with the

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Reminder: Dwarfland Photos now also on iPhone

Hey guys. This is just a small reminder that Dwarfland Photos, my photo app for the iPad, has recently been updated and is now available “for the small screen”, i.e. iPhone and

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Some Tweaks to RemObjects TV and Radio

We’ve made some tweaks to RemObjects TV and RemObjects Radio integration with the web sites, today. For one, new podcast episodes and videos will now show aggregated in the main blog feed

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Delphi Prism XE is Available Now!

Hi. This is just a quick post to let you know that Delphi Prism XE is available now. XE is a pretty minor update to Delphi Prism over the Delphi prism 2011 release

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Delphi Live — Day 2 Recap

Day 2 was busy and eventful. We started out with Sebastian‘s presentation of Hydra, our cross platform plugin framework that allows you to mix and match code written in Delphi/Win32 and

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Delphi Live — Day 1 Recap

Day one of Delphi Live has been great, here in San Jose. After the morning Keynote with David I, Michael Swindell, Tony de la Lama and Mike Rozlog and the official launch of

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