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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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Happy New Year

[![Happy New Year](http://static.flickr.com/2027/2153560918_5fcfcd7643.jpg)](http://www.dwarfland.com/?set=72057594126605746&image=2153560918)“Happy New Year” – see it on [dwarfland.com](http://www.dwarfland.com/?set=72057594126605746&

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The Golden Compass

You know you’re in trouble when the first five minutes of a movie are spent in narration, explaining to you what the movie will be about and, essentially, letting you know that

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A First Look at RemObjects Floss

Recently, we’ve made the decision to switch version control systems here at RemObjects. In the past, we’ve been using a commercial system (i won’t name any names) that has been

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remobjects.de is live!

For those german-speaking folks out there, we’ve just launched remobjects.de, the german version of our website! Enjoy.

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Photo of the Week #9

[![Sunrise over Building 41](http://static.flickr.com/95/230102631_b28c87dda2.jpg)](http://www.dwarfland.com/?set=72157600005306421&image=230102631)“Sunrise over Building 41” – see it on [dwarfland.com](http://www.dwarfland.com/

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Huw Collingbourne’s Bitwise Magazine has posted a summary of the important trends and developments of year 2007 in tech thru the eyes of a few key members of the industry, including your’

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Concurrency in Chrome 'Oxygène'

As you probably know, while ‘Joyride’ is the current version of Chrome, and we plan to have many significant updates to it over the next half year, we’re also already busy planning

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Photo of the Week #8

[![Waning](http://static.flickr.com/2320/2068918820_40d0a37aac.jpg)](http://www.dwarfland.com/?set=72057594126605746&image=2068918820)“Waning” – see it on [dwarfland.com](http://www.dwarfland.com/?set=72057594126605746&image=2068918820)

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Photo of the Week #7

[![For Your and Our Freedom](http://static.flickr.com/2123/2058928031_3bb06599da.jpg)](http://dwarfland.com/?set=72157600005277082&image=2058928031)“For Your and Our Freedom” – see it on [dwarfland.com](http://dwarfland.com/

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Chrome - now with FREE Visual Studio 2008

With Visual Studio 2008 RTM’ed last week, we at RemObjects are happy to discontinue one of our best-selling product SKUs: “Chrome with Visual Studio”, the edition where you could pay $50 extra

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Visual Studio 2008 is here

fire up your msdn and start the download – Visual Studio 2008 RTM is available! Or, on second thought – please wait 2 more hours until my download is done, and then go get it

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Some interesting UI concepts on Alex Faaborg's Blog

Alex Faaborg of the User Experience team for Firefox has posted an interesting look at some of the new UI changes that are coming in Firefox 3. I’m a big fan of

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Announcing AnyDAC 2.0 for Delphi!

It’s been a while since my last post (with text ;), and i apologize. A lot of interesting things have been going on at RemObjects that have been keeping me busy. As some

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Photo of the Week #6

[![20064 #1.jpg](http://static.flickr.com/2158/2034260565_5aa6faed8e.jpg)](http://www.dwarfland.com/?set=72057594126057173&image=2034260565)“There’s a Hole in the Sky” – see it on [dwarfland.com](http://www.

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Love the new Apple Keyboard

[![Keyboard.jpg](http://static.flickr.com/2399/1652386514_857e7f6d20.jpg)](http://www.dwarfland.com/?set=72057594140086558&image=1652386514)“Keyboard” – see it on [dwarfland.com](http://www.dwarfland.com/?set=72057594140086558&image=1652386514) I’

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Real Life SQL Injection

There have been some of discussions about SQLGetData and TDAWhere vs. the new Dynamic Where and Dynamic Select features in Data Abstract ‘Vinci’ in our newsgroups this past week, and i think this

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The Gum Thief

A brief book recommendation: this saturday i’ve read The Gum Thief, the latest novel by Douglas Coupland. I’ve loved Coupland’s work ever since first reading Microserfs some ten years ago,

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Photo of the Week #4

[![20064 #1.jpg](http://static.flickr.com/2069/1496361772_231f5801c9.jpg)](http://www.dwarfland.com/?set=72057594126041477&image=1496361772)“Welcome to the fall” – see it on [dwarfland.com](http://www.dwarfland.com/?set=

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Avoiding Feature Creep: or On the Up-Sides and Down-Sides of Having an Evolving Language

I feel the need to say something here, inspired by recent language feature discussions and suggestions, both on our public Chrome newsgroups but also in the betas. I know that many of you,

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Something is Happening

It’s been a while since i talked about it, but having recently received the DVD and had the chance for a re-watch, i need to recommend David Lynch’s latest masterpiece INLAND

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Photo of the Week #3

[![20064 #1.jpg](http://static.flickr.com/1330/538605070_1d5b2449e6.jpg)](http://www.dwarfland.com/?set=72057594140086558&image=538605070)“Shake” – see it on [dwarfland.com](http://www.dwarfland.com/?set=72057594140086558&image=538605070)

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The Fine Art of Software Delivery

I’ve just wasted four hours of my life i will not get back. What did i do you, you ask? Easy: i tried to upgrade my Delphi 2007 test VM to the

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Cool Mac Tools, Part Deux

Many years ago, when i seriously started collecting DVDs, i wrote an application where, being the anal-retentive guy i am, i could maintain all my DVDs and, eventually, CDs and books. I don’

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Photo of the Week #2

[![20064 #1.jpg](http://www.dwarfland.com/galleries/paris/bin/images/medium/DSC_6175.jpg)](http://www.dwarfland.com/?set=paris&image=A5A65366-877E-4066-945D-F98640C892DC)“Dudes on a Bridge” – see it on [dwarfland.com](http:

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