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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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WWDC

Apple finally announced their annually World Wide Developer Conference, WWDC, today, after much anticipation and delay. Of course I bought my ticket right away, and am looking forward to the conference already. I’

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“Der Entwickler” Article

The latest issue of german software development magazine Der Entwickler is out, containing among other good stuff an article by yours truly on database development for the iPhone with Data Abstract for OS

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The Missing Link: Schema Modeler for Mac

In this previous post, i talked about the current state of Data Abstract for OS X, and also promised a follow-up with a roadmap of where we are going next. Where We’re

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Schlachthof 5

![DSC_9259.jpg](http://blogs.remobjects.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/DSC_9259.jpg)They started taking down one of the last ruins of the old east-german slaughterhouse here in Friedrichshain, right next

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New Customer Portal

I’m happy to let you know that as of today, we’ve launched our new Customer Portal, available at http://portal.remobjects.com. This new portal site combines the old my.remobjects.

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“Making Apps”

Both Olaf Monien and Daniel Magin have blogged about the first in their “Making Apps” series of events on iPhone development, which RemObjects Software had the great honor of sponsoring. This first event

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Episode 39 of the Podcast at Delphi.org

It’s been a long while, but Jim and i finally found the time again to sit down and record a new episode of The Podcast at Delphi.org, talking about the upcoming

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RT: Kontra on Apple, Google and “Choice”

The Angry Drunk links to a worthwhile read taking apart the latest “draconian control” clamors from Google’s new spokesperson for the Android / against the iPhone, and IMHO sums it up very nicely:

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What's New and Cooking...

The past week has been a busy one, here at RemObjects. On Tuesday, we shipped our new “Spring 2010” releases, updating our entire product suite. We also started work on three major new

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Photo(s) of the Week #28

![DSC_9205.jpg](http://blogs.remobjects.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/DSC_9205.jpg) It’s been a while since i last posted photos. Has, in fact, been a while since i last

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New Expression Types in Delphi Prism

It seems the sneak peek at “for expressions” in my previous post caused quite a bit of stir, so i figured i would spend a few minutes talking about the new expression types

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New Syntax for Extension Methods in Delphi Prism

Ever since Extension Methods have been introduced in .NET 3.5, we’ve been pondering on a proper syntax to allow developers to define their own. C# uses an awkward syntax where it

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Everything is Relative

Today i want to talk a bit about “Relativity”, a new feature we’re shipping with Data Abstract this month (and which is actually available as “tech preview”in the current Winter 2009

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Visualizing Data with Core-Plot

Core Plot is an open source graphing framework for Cocoa developers that makes it really easy to add graphs to your applications for the Mac and iPhone. Over the past half year, i’

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Reusing C# in Your Prism Projects

One of the (few) concerns we hear from people looking to get started with Delphi Prism is that most of the code samples and snippets that are available on the net are written

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Incremental Data Fetching in Data Abstract for OS X

Bugs 7, the new bug-tracking application i have been working on over the past month for internal use here at RemObjects, employs several different data access paradigms (all based on Data Abstract for

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Sneak Peak: Code Obfuscation in Visual Studio, with Oxfuscator

Today i want to take a quick peek at a new code obfuscation solution for .NET we have been working on. Back sometime in mid-2009, when we started migrating the Oxygene/Delphi Prism

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Accessing Data inside the Middle Tier, with Local Data Adapters

One of the new features we introduced to Data Abstract in the latest release is the Local Data Adapter, or LDA, for short. What is a Local Data Adapter, and What Does it

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Happy New Year 2010!

![11963](http://blogs.remobjects.com/blogs/media/blogs/mh/hny2010.jpg) I wish all of our customers and readers a happy and successful new year of 2010. We have great things coming up,

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Is that a Wiki in your Xcode?

We’re getting close to shipping our first release of Data Abstract for OS X as well as the 1.1 update for RemObjects SDK for OS X at the end of this

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iPhone & Desktop Pairing with RemObjects SDK

One common scenario when developing iPhone apps is that you have a desktop application of some sorts that you want your iPhone to pair with – be it to sync data, remote control one

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A Word about the Upcoming Fall 2009 Releases

If your internal body clock has gotten attuned to our regular release cycle here at RemObjects (or even if you just did the math ;), you might be expecting our new set of Fall

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Introducing cloudporn.com

I’ve started a new blog dedicated to my favorite kind of photography: clouds. The site will mainly be a photo blog format, providing frequent posts of photos of awesome cloudscapes, but it

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MonoTouch and Delphi Prism

The Mono guys released their first preview of MonoTouch, their implementation of the Mono tool chain for building iPhone apps. Now, as anyone following this blog knows that i’m pretty deep into

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An Update on Data Abstract for OS X

I realize it’s been a while since i talked about Data Abstract for OS X, so i figured today would be a good time to post a small teaser for what’s

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