marc hoffman

“Bridging” is a new language feature introduced to Objective-C alongside ARC, that i believe is not very widely understood, at least not fully. Cocoa always had the ability to “toll-free bridge” between Cocoa

The past few weeks, everybody has been complaining about iCloud. Or more precisely, they have been complaining about a small subfeature that is crucial to app developers: Core Data syncing via iCloud. Developers

Over the past couple of weeks, i have been working on a new sample project for Oxygene “Nougat” on the side. After having gotten Browse500 into the App Store in January and showing

A week or so back, Yari D’areglia had an excellent tutorial on his blog on How to build a custom control in iOS that gave a nice rundown of some of the

On Friday, we shipped BETA 3 of Oxygene “Nougat”, a major milestone in our progress to bring the Oxygene language you know and

I’m more than thrilled to announce the immediate availability of Browse500.app, the very first app written in Oxygene “Nougat” to be submitted to and approved for the iOS App Store. [![](http:

One of the coolest tools in Apple’s Xcode tool chain is Instruments, the profiler. Profiling is an essential debugging tool for every

In this article, i want to talk a bit about working with user interfaces in Oxygene Nougat. As you know, Nougat is a native compiler for the Objective-C runtime, meaning that it works

  A happy and successful new year of 2013, from everybody here at RemObjects Software! We have lots of great

Nougat is, of course, designed to work with any existing Objective-C libraries out there, because it directly consumes and generates code for the Objective-C runtime. As such, it should come as no surprise

On Friday, we shipped BETA 2 of Oxygene “Nougat“, the next major platform for our Oxygene language (in case you have missed it or have been living under a rock, Nougat is “Oxygene

In preparation for “Nougat Beta 2”, our next milestone coming up in a couple of weeks, i wanted to sit down and write up a quick “getting started” article on how to get

In the first three parts of this series, we took a look at the basic concepts and design principles behind Oxygene “Nougat”, and the IDE experience. In this fourth installment, i’d like

One of the many improvements in the all-new Data Abstract 7 is that we completely revamped the user experience for creating and updating the strongly typed code files for DA LINQ in DA/

In the first two parts of this series, we have taken an initial look at Oxygene “Nougat” from the compiler side. Today, i want to delve deeper into some aspects of the IDE

In this second part of our series on the upcoming edition of Oxygene for Cocoa, codenamed “Nougat”, i want to go into some more details about the compiler — the heart and soul of

With the new Oxygene 5.2 release, we have made some significant improvements to the user experience for our software licensing system. Licensing is always a necessary evil. You gotta do something to

Mark Zuckerberg about the new native Facbeook app (via Appleinsider, The Verge): “Native [platform development] is going to be the approach that we go with for iOS and Android”. “We’re betting completely

When we launched our new Oxygene website and Oxygene 5.2 last week, we also gave a sneak peek at an upcoming new edition/platform for Oxygene, codenamed “Nougat“. This is the first

Yesterday, we launched the major revamp of our “Oxygene” product homepage, available at remobjects.com/oxygene, along with announcing the 5.2 release, a significant update to the product. Let’s have a

People often ask us what the difference between Core Data and Data Abstract is, and why they should choose one over the other. The answer to that second question frequently is “it depends”

Today i tried setting up my new Nexus 7 to use for development with Oxygene for Java and our Data Abstract for Java BETA. As most of you probably know, i’m not

As most of you are probably aware, Visual Studio 2012, the next version of our favorite IDE for the Windows platform and home to our Oxygene compiler, is coming soon, with the RTM

Dear Readers, i’m happy to inform you of the immediate availability of our new June 2012 update for Oxygene, and a small June interim release for our ROFX products. The June 2012

i know it’s been a while since we have put out an episode of RemObjects Radio, and we apologize for that. In the meantime however, there have been some other podcast events