marc hoffman

In my previous blog post, we took a quick first look at developing Mac a application using Chrome and Mono. Since that post was written, a lot of things have happened. We’ve

Figuring a bit of non-tech content would do this blog some good, i’ve decided to start a weekly post series, titled “Photo of the Week” (how original, indeed ;). Once a week, i’

I came across a cool writing tool today that i fell instantly in love with – WriteRoom by Jesse Grosjean. At heart, WriteRoom is a very simplistic text editor for plain and rich text

Next to the big two new features shipping in Version 2.0.3 of Chrome ‘Joyride’ that we’ve already talked about in previous posts, there’s also one small but powerful new

Getting back to some more Windows/Microsoft features after our brief excursion into Mac territory (no worries, we will get back there too, and soon), we’re shipping full Silverlight support in Chrome

I needed to get myself a new laptop, and after much deliberation decided to treat myself to a Mac, for a variety of reasons, not the least of it being that i was

Huw Collingbourne, author of bitwise magazine but also Co-Founder of SapphireSteel Software just published an article showing how he integrated a Ruby back-end written in their excellent Ruby In Steel product with a

‘Tis the time of the year, and just to match up with our .21 release of’ Vinci’ coming up this Saturday, we’ve published an updated version of our ROadmap. Those of you

The answer might seem obvious, but apparently CodeGear has a different view, as Delphi product Manager Nick Hodges just announced that the upcoming and long awaited Delphi ‘Highlander’ for .NET 2.0 will

We’ve just published a first preview chapter of what will eventually become the Chrome Language Guide, a comprehensive text covering the Chrome language in all its aspects, from basic language structure to

I know, i know. We weren’t supposed to ship until the 30th, but it turned out we made such good progress and were so happy with the last rounds of testing results

Barry Carr has started a nice blog series based on the Cookbooks paradigm, providing how-to code snippets for commonly needed tasks in three languages, including D, OCaml, F# and Chrome. You can follow

Dominique Louis of pascalgamedevelopment.com has been posting a series of interesting tutorials showing how to use Chrome to develop DirectX based games using Microsoft’s XNA technology. In his latest installment, he

As frequent visitors to remobjects.com know, our core website doesn’t usually change much over time in design or structure. Early this week, we’ve published a pretty major overhaul of the

As part of reviewing the technical articles on our website, we’ve also started to plan for a few more higher-level white papers that bring our products and the concepts behind them to

Over the past year, more and more developers have been asking for support for developing 64-bit applications, especially for the server side, where the new architecture brings many benefits, most importantly for access

It looks like i’ve been falling a bit behind with the promised bi-daily blogging about Vinci, this past week… My apologies. Truth to be told, i’ve been doing so much writing

In a brief departure from all the talk about ‘Vinci’ (no worries, the next post will be coming soon ;), this weekend i found some precious time to work on my personal dwarfland.com

There has been a lot of confusion in the past about how DA picks the appropriate statement for a data table, if more then one connection is involved, and couple new properties have

As one of the many new drivers we’re shipping in ‘Vinci, we’ve added a new driver to support SQLite, a lightweight open-source embedded database system. This driver will work out of

As of now, Data Abstract ‘Vinci’ is officially announced, and the remobjects.com website has been updated with our new product banner, replacing the Hydra 3 announcement. The website update went hand in

As what i’d consider a minor new feature, functionality has been added to the base RO/.NET library to allow service implementations to provide their custom HTML (or whatever) front end when

One of the most requested features for Data Abstract in the past has been to provide a UI to handle update failures automatically and intuitively. Presenting update failures in a decent way that

If you’ve been following my current blog series about new features coming up in ‘Vinci’, you might be interested to hear that we’ve inofficially started the pre-sale for our new Subscription

For Data Abstract 5.0, we’ve taken a long look at performance, trying to find ways to make ‘Vinci’ even faster and more well-performing that the current releases. One thing we noticed