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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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Delphi XE2 Support

I want to take a few moments to talk about support for the upcoming Delphi XE2 in our “for Delphi” products. As most of you have probably heard by now, Delphi XE2 is

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Our New git Branching Model

With the initial RTM of Embarcadero Prism XE2 (Oxygene 5 for .NET) behind us and as we are preparing to also lock down for our other product releases in September, we have introduced

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Prism XE2 (Oxygene for .NET) Bits Have Been Finalized for the Upcoming Release

We just promoted Oxygene to the “master” branch for the upcoming Fall 2011 release (also known as Embarcadero Prism XE2). The result of git log release-mar11..master is an astounding 3054 lines of

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Sneak Peek: Inline Interface Implementations in Prism XE2 and Cooper

Today, I would like to talk about another new language feature that is new in Oxygene 5. This particular feature was mainly added for Project “Cooper” to fill a need on the Java

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Sneak Peek: Spell Checking support in Prism XE2's Oxygene 5 Compiler

In a previous blog post we already took a first look at “Fix-It” support and some related editor enhancements centering around error reporting that are coming to Prism XE2 and Project Cooper later

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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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