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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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Don't Blame Us for Bad Software, Blame Yourself

Just when you thought you’ve seen everything, here comes the as of yet lamest attempt at rationalizing two crappy product releases in a row. Unbelievable…

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Video inside: Chrome auto completion

It’s always nice to wake up to a new feature in your product. This morning i woke up way to early (6:30. Outch) and found that Brian had just finished checking

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Why your customers don't want .NET application

I keep reading – in blogs, in non-tech and seemingly everywhere else – how .NET is over-hyped technology. The newsgroup is full of people clinging to Win32 and stating they see "no demand"

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Symbols, Please!

Visual Studio 2005 provides many new debugging features that come in handy for Chrome and C# developers alike, and one of the coolest, in my opinion, is the (undocumented) Symbol Server support. Microsoft

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Stay Tuned for Build .191

It’s been almost a month, and a lot has been going on in Chromesville. Brian and i have spent the last week of May in sunny Redmond, working with the VSCore and

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RemObjects on the ROad

Interested in learning more about RemObjects products and seeing Chrome or the RemObjects Framework live in action? We’ve just unveiled our new events page on remobjects.com, which lists upcoming product presentations,

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Welcome to Beautiful Germany

After Nazis murdered a 31 year old "Punk" in Dortmund on Easter Monday (March 28th), news is coming in today that neo-fascists have struck again – this time in Schwerte, just a

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Why setlength is evil™

There has been a lot of discussion on our private Chrome beta newsgroups lately about the pros and cons of providing a Run Time Library (RTL) with Chrome in addition to what’s

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More Chrome on Channel 9

http://channel9.msdn.com/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=49330 Well sort of. I dropped in a bit too late to really join the discussion and actually talk about Chrome, unfortunately, but at least you

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Comparing Chrome and Delphi 2005 Namespace Support

A lot of people (me included) complained about the support (or lack of support) for namespaces in Delphi for .NET when Delphi 8 was initially released. Namespaces essentially boiled down to a fancy

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The Whole Enchilada

Dear Consant Readers, In the spirit of keeping you up to date on what’s brewing in the RemObjects Labs, a new article is now available on CodeFez that will introduce you to

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Another Shade of Yellow, Sunset Yellow

Looks like the planets are aligning for a proper Summer again, this year: tickets for the first Sisters gig in Tilburg, netherlands are up for sale now, and more gigs are on the

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Class Contracts - Why When and Where?

I was involved in some discussion about Assertions in general (and Class Contracts in particular) on the borland.public.delphi.non-tech newsgroup today, kindled by introduction of Class Contracts into the Pascal language

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Welcome to Chromesville

If you haven’t already done so, be sure to head over to the freshly launched chromesville.com for an abundance of new and exciting infos on Chrome, our upcoming Pascal language compiler

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A Space Full of Names

As you can imagine, these past few weeks we have been very busy here, readying Chrome for public announcement (and possibly beta release) next month. Apart from the code side of things, a

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Look! All Shiney!

Ok, so now that the information is out there (if you know where to look), i figured it might be a nice service to the Constant Readers here to to repost the screenshot

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Some Suppliers are not Worth Having

It seems that recently, discussion keeps coming up about the phrase "The customer is always right", and it has been brought up that "some customers aren’t worth having"

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Feel the Rush

One of the most exciting things to happen in the .NET world in the past half year has certainly been the release of Developer Express’ CodeRush for Visual Studio .NET. CodeRush has been

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It's all in the music

I’ve re-watched Kill Bill Volume 1 again last night – after finally getting the DVD – and i have come to the conclusion that we might actually have to be thankful to the Weinsteins

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Internet Pack for .NET

Let me spend a few minutes today on talking about our upcoming “Internet Pack for .NET” product, a low/medium level network framework for .NET that should be available soon. Why “Yet Another

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Welcome to the RemObjects Blog

Time stops for no-one, so we at RemObjects software too will finally start blogging. Lately, i’m personally mostly involved with our upcoming .NET libraries (the Internet Pack, which will be out Real

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Poor Man's Mira

Anyone remember “Mira”, that screen technology from Microsoft where supposedly you should just grab your monitor and walk around the house with it, using it (and a touch screen) to access your PC

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