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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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Does a .NET Development Tool Need a WinForms Designer?

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

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Sneak Peek: Chrome Language Guide: Sequences and Queries

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

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And They're Off...

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

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New "Chrome Cookbook" Blog Series by Barry Carr

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

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Chrome Game Development

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

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Major remobjects.com Website Overhaul

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

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Why Multi-Tier, and why Data Abstract?

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

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Vinci Part #11 - Support for 64-bit and Linux through Free Pascal

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

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What's with the quiet?

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

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3 Cool 'Joyride' Features on dwarfland.com

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

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Vinci Part #9 - Improved Logic for Locating "Default" Statements

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

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Vinci Part #8 - New SQLite Database Driver

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

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Vinci officially announced!

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

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Vinci Part #6 - HTTP Access to DA Schemas via the Browser

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

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Vinci Part #4 - The Reconcile Dialog

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

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Get your hands on 'Vinci' now!

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

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Vinci Part #3 - The all new TDAMemDataTable

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

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Vinci Part #2 - The new New HttpSysServerChannel

Today was actually “build day” here at RemObjects, and we just released a new suite of builds for all our current products, including RemObjects SDK, Data Abstract, Hydra 3, Internet Pack, DebugServer and

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What's coming up in RO/DA Version 5.0 (Codename 'Vinci')? - Part #1

As we are gearing up for the launch of the next version of our Data Abstract and RemObjects SDK products, internally code named ‘Vinci’, i thought it might be interesting to start a

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Ladies and Gentlemen - we are gold!

Expect the official announcement over the weekend, but the first release version of Hydra 3.0 (in one SKU for Delphi and .NET) is available now in the form of build 3.0.

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<a href="http://www.remobjects.com/devcenter">Developer Center Beta</a>

Dear Constant Reader, i am happy to announce that last night we revealed a new section of our website that has been in development over the past month: the RemObjects Developer Center. DevCenter

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Hydra Mania!

We’ve released a first peek at Hydra 3.0 in the past few days, in form of our HY07, but things are about to get a lot more interesting as we’re

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Now there's a look in your eyes/like black holes in the sky

The sad news has hit yesterday that Syd Barrett, co-founder of Pink Floyd and undoubfully inspiration to millions of people world wide, has passed away at age 60. I think it is save

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A Boatload of Releases

Just a couple hours now, and it’s July 1, the target date for a huge number of releases scheduled here at RemObjects Software – some officially promised on the ROadmap, some simply targeted

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<a href="http://www.remobjects.com/devstudio">Introducing DevStudio 1.0</a>

As some of you (especially our beta testers) may be aware, we’re currently nearing the end of a major release cycle, with significant updates of all our major products due to be

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