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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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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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![](http://blogs.remobjects.com/blogs/media/Error.png)Sure thing.

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Adventures in Mac World - Part 2

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

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Photo of the Week #1

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’

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Cool Writing Tool

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

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Partial Methods

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

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Shine that Silver Light On Me

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

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Adventures in Mac World - Part 1

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

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<a href="http://www.sapphiresteel.com/Ruby-In-Chrome">Mixing Ruby and Chrome</a>

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

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New ROadmap online now

‘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

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