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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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Data Abstract, Remoting SDK & Hydra Interim Updates

Hi everyone. just a quick note that while work is ongoing for Data Abstract and Remoting SDK 9.3, which will be significant feature updates later in the fall, we have just released

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Writing Android NDK Code with Elements

Writing Android NDK Code with Elements

hljs.initHighlightingOnLoad(); With our latest release of Elements 9.1 last week, we introduced support for native Android NDK apps. What this means is the you can now use whatever Elements language you

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Announcing Elements 9.1

Announcing Elements 9.1

This week, we have shipped the long anticipated Elements 9.1, the latest version of or multi-platform, multi-language compiler tool chain. I'm very excited about this release, and an extensive overview of what's

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Introducing Hydra 5

Introducing Hydra 5

Today, I'm happy to announce the immediate availability of Hydra 5, the next major version of our beloved library for mixing and matching development platforms. For two versions now, Hydra has been the

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A Happy New Year from RemObjects Software

A Happy New Year from RemObjects Software

Hi, thanx for reading! As 2016 draws to a close, I wanted to take a moment to reach out and thank all of you, our users, for your continued support and patronage. 2016

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Announcing Elements 9

Announcing Elements 9

Hi everyone. We're happy to announce the immediate availability of the brand new Elements 9. Elements 9 is a huge milestone, and I'm extremely proud of what the team has accomplished this time

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An Elements Update, aka 8.3.95

An Elements Update, aka 8.3.95

Hi everyone. Last week, we shipped Elements 8.3.95, the second and final interim update for 8.3. This version has been a great release from the get-go, and .95 adds an

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Inline Locals

Inline Locals

Continuing our blog series on the (many) cool new features coming in Elements 8.4 later this Fall, today I want to look at a nifty little editor feature new in Fire (and

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Escape from Delphi

Escape from Delphi

Last week, I was in San Francisco, and I noticed that the 'Escape from Alcatraz' triathlon was going on. Alcatraz seems like a beautifull place from afar — sunny, and by the water. But

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If you're going to San Francisco...

If you're going to San Francisco...

It's June, again, so today i'll be swapping my panama hat for a nice and warm Goorin Bros wool fedora, dust off my last remaining winter jacket, and head off to cold, cold

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New "Unified Class Syntax coming in Oxygene 8.4

New "Unified Class Syntax coming in Oxygene 8.4

Another area where we're making some significant improvements for the upcoming Elements 8.4 release is the Oxygene language itself. We haven't made any drastic changes to Oxygene in a while, but we

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    marc hoffman
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Link: The Official Curaçao Weather App

Incredibly proud to share an inside look at the side project i have been working on using Elements, Fire and Sugar, for the past few months: The first fruits of that labor between

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Elements 8.4: Integrated (E)Unit Testing in Fire

Elements 8.4: Integrated (E)Unit Testing in Fire

This post will provide a sneak peek at another feature coming in Elements 8.4 (and available in the current Alpha drop): IDE-Integrated Unit Testing with EUnit and Fire. This is pretty cool,

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    marc hoffman
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Fire Tips: Working with Build Messages

Fire Tips: Working with Build Messages

If you have worked with Fire a bit, you will have noticed that unlike most other IDEs, it has no "Error List". This is not an oversight, but by design. Fire

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    marc hoffman
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Island — Native Windows and Linux in Elements 8.4

Island — Native Windows and Linux in Elements 8.4

Ok, so we have made the first beta of Elements 8.4 available, and understandably, "Island" is the new feature you are most excited and want to hear more about. So,

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    marc hoffman
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Fire Tips: References and Hint Paths

Fire Tips: References and Hint Paths

Fire does a number of nice little things to make it easier to work with references and hint paths. To recap, the compiler and IDE use two different mechanisms to locate a reference

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First RO/DA 9.1 Betas Are Out

In case you've missed it, or are not running Beta.app: yesterday we started to get back on our semi-weekly beta cycle for Remoting SDK and Data Abstract, with the first Alpha build

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    marc hoffman
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Elements: What's Next?

Elements: What's Next?

Having just shipped 8.3.93, a small update to our major 8.3 release from earlier this year, it's time to take a look ahead at what's coming for Elements, for the

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    marc hoffman
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New Betas

We've just shipped the first set of weekly beta for the next Elements release, 8.3.95. Enjoy your weekend, and stay tuned for more detailed post next week about what lies ahead

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    marc hoffman
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Fire Tips: Option-Command-C

Fire Tips: Option-Command-C

Hi. In this new series of blog posts, i want to look at and highlight small but cool details in Fire that will make your work easier. Things that will be easy to

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    marc hoffman
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Updates to Everything

Updates to Everything

Hi everyone. Hot on the heels of our major new releases in March, we’ve just shipped a round of small interim updates across the entire product line, including Elements 8.3, Remoting

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    marc hoffman
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Announcing Elements 8.3 and Fire, our new Mac IDE

It’s a busy week here at RemObjects Software, and hot on the heels of our brand new Remoting SDK 9, we’ve also shipped Elements 8.3, a significant update to our

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    marc hoffman
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Announcing Remoting SDK and Data Abstract 9

Dear customers. We’re incredibly excited to let you know about the immediate availability of Remoting SDK and Data Abstract 9, the next major release of our communication and data access frameworks. It’

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    marc hoffman
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Happy New Year 2016

Happy New Year 2016

Hello everyone, and a Happy New Year of 2016! We're hitting the ground running this year, and have already, on January 1, shipped brand new alpha/beta builds of our next upcoming major

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A Small Elements 8.2.89 Update

We've just pushed out a small interim update to our Elements 8.2.89 release from November; in fact, the second of two. This update fixes an issue that crept up with the

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    marc hoffman
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