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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 Prism, M.D.

Over the past couple months, a lot of progress has been made with getting Delphi Prism integrated into MonoDevelop. As mentioned before (and in our ROadmap), one of the “big” focuses in the

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Need a Little Push?

Push Notifications area an important new feature in the new iPhone 3.0, and one that will be naturally useful for most people using RemObjects SDK to build iPhone apps because – by definition

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WWDC09 Roundup

So, WWDC09, Apple’s World Wide Developer Conference, is over, and i’m sitting in my room at the excellent Hotel Monaco getting ready to leave San Francisco. For every conference i go

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RemObjects "Summer 2009" Releases Available, and More...

Yesterday has been the culmination of one of the busiest months here at RemObjects. To start with, we’ve shipped a new round of updates for all of our products, most noticeably a

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Now on the App Store…

A bit ahead of the regular new product releases coming out later today, i’m happy to let you know that our second iPhone application has become available on the App Store, at

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Photo of the Week #26

[![](http://blogs.remobjects.com/blogs/media/blogs/mh/DSC_3264And11more_tonemapped-108-bordered2.png)](http://www.dwarfland.com/?latest&image=3550762559)“It’s Raining Again” — see it on [dwarfland.com](http://www.dwarfland.com/?latest&

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See Delphi Prism in Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1

Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 is available on the MSDN Subscriber’s Downloads Page since last night, finally putting the new version of Visual Studio out to the general public. Below, you’ll

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Introducing “RemObjects Builder”

This month is probably the busiest we’ve had in a long time. Last week, we RTMed a new release of Delphi Prism with many major new features, and also shipped the first

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Delphi Prism — May 2009 Release Has RTMed

I hope you’ll be pleased to hear that the final RTM build for the Delphi Prism May 2009 release has just been completed, and is on its way thru the troublesome and

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Life on Mars — Photo(s) of the Week #25

Ever since i got my D300 last December, my old Nikon D50 has been burning a hole in my pocket, as they say. A couple weeks back, i finally decided to send it

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Coming in May: New Suite of Samples for Data Abstract

As mentioned in my previous post, we have a new suite of samples coming in the may releases of Data Abstract. It all started back when we were preparing for exhibiting at PDC2008.

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Prism Wiki Now Uses CDN Logins

This is just to let you know that Prism Wiki has been updated to use standard CodeGear Developer Network logins, so everyone who has a username and password for CDN (and if you

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Teaser: PCTrade sample client for DA/OSX

One of the new features for Data Abstract we’ll be shipping in the May releases is a completely revamped sample infrastructure. I’ll be talking more about this in a future post

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ARTICLE: Writing a RemObjects SDK for .NET Server and Mac Client - Start to Finish

i just finished writing a new walkhru article on creating a RemObjects SDK for .NET server and matching RemObjects SDK for OSX client. Next go giving a complete overview over that, the article

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Some RemObjects Software Wallpapers

Below are a couple of new “RemObjects Software” wallpapers i’ve created over the past few months (all 13″ MacBook size, 1280×800, for now – i may provide larger versions depending on demand)

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Coming in May: Improved IDE support for DA LINQ

Another area that will see a big focus in the upcoming Summer releases of Data Abstract is ease of use for DA LINQ. DA LINQ is an awesome technology, but currently has a

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Displaying Variably-Sized Text Cells in a UITableView

For a couple of iPhone apps that i am working on (one is internal, one will hopefully be on the AppStore soon), i needed a flexible way to display text blocks of varying

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SVN Repositories for Delphi Prism Users at code.remobjects.com

Next to ShineOn, which Carlo blogged about going live on SVN last week, we’ve set up two more projects on code.remobjects.com to host bot RemObjects-provided and user-contributed content: Delphi Prism

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Styles...

Did some minor tweaking with the blog’s CSS to make it, imho, a lot more friendly to read. hope you’ll like it. yours, marc

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Coming in May: Improved Login Infrastructure for Data Abstract

i’ve just finished implementing a new feature in Data Abstract (.NET and OS X, for now, but the same will be ported over to Delphi before we ship the summer releases in

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More Ad Idiocy

i’m wondering if there’s a second, parallel “Mac community” that i’m not aware of. There has to be, because for the second (or more) time in a row now, the

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<a href="http://www.remobjectssdk.com">New RemObjects SDK website is up</a>

It’s been in the works for a while now, and i’m happy to let you know that our new RemObjects SDK product website is now online, including details about the new

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RemObjects SDK for OS X is Shipping

Finally, the day has come. It has been just about a year since i started working on RemObjects SDK for OS X, and today, we’ve declared it “gold” and shipped our first

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Who's the real target of Microsoft's "Lauren" commercials?

By now, pretty much everyone has watched Lauren find her perfect $699 HP laptop. If you haven’t, go take a look now. i’ll wait. This commercial has everyone on the internets

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New Podcast Episode

The latest episode of the Podcast@Delphi.org is up, featuring once again yours truly, as well as @jamiei, @skamradt and of course @JimMcKeeth. This time, we’re talking about a new project

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