Help us Test our new Public Chat Room We’re currently experimenting with a public chat room for RemObjects personnel and customers. This channel is accessible through any Jabber/XMPP client (such as Google Talk, Pidgin, Psi, iChat, Adium, and many
DA/.NET Client-Side Scripting We just finished our dataset scripting support for Data Abstract for .NET. DA now lets you define scripts on the server side (inside the schema), that the client will download and hook up
“Der Entwickler” Article The latest issue of german software development magazine Der Entwickler is out, containing among other good stuff an article by yours truly on database development for the iPhone with Data Abstract for OS
The Missing Link: Schema Modeler for Mac In this previous post, i talked about the current state of Data Abstract for OS X, and also promised a follow-up with a roadmap of where we are going next. Where We’re
Delphi Prism in MonoDevelop at a glance Our beta users (marc already did mention you can apply for the Prism beta here, didn’t he?) are already playing around with this for some time now, and we are going to
Schlachthof 5 They started taking down one of the last ruins of the old east-german slaughterhouse here in Friedrichshain, right next
New Customer Portal I’m happy to let you know that as of today, we’ve launched our new Customer Portal, available at http://portal.remobjects.com. This new portal site combines the old my.remobjects.
“Making Apps” Both Olaf Monien and Daniel Magin have blogged about the first in their “Making Apps” series of events on iPhone development, which RemObjects Software had the great honor of sponsoring. This first event
Episode 39 of the Podcast at Delphi.org It’s been a long while, but Jim and i finally found the time again to sit down and record a new episode of The Podcast at Delphi.org, talking about the upcoming
RT: Kontra on Apple, Google and “Choice” The Angry Drunk links to a worthwhile read taking apart the latest “draconian control” clamors from Google’s new spokesperson for the Android / against the iPhone, and IMHO sums it up very nicely:
Intercepting RO/.NET HttpServer requests With the Spring 2010 release, RemObjects SDK for .NET lets you intercept any configurable path on any of the non-super http Server channels and do something completely different with the http request. This
What's New and Cooking... The past week has been a busy one, here at RemObjects. On Tuesday, we shipped our new “Spring 2010” releases, updating our entire product suite. We also started work on three major new
Photo(s) of the Week #28  It’s been a while since i last posted photos. Has, in fact, been a while since i last
dlr RemObjects Script for .NET A while ago, I started planning a new Data Abstract feature: we wanted to support scripting in the .NET parts of the product, for validating business rules on both the client and the
New Expression Types in Delphi Prism It seems the sneak peek at “for expressions” in my previous post caused quite a bit of stir, so i figured i would spend a few minutes talking about the new expression types
New Syntax for Extension Methods in Delphi Prism Ever since Extension Methods have been introduced in .NET 3.5, we’ve been pondering on a proper syntax to allow developers to define their own. C# uses an awkward syntax where it
Using Cocoa Bindings for binding DADataTable to NSTableView. As you might know, Cocoa offers several ways for populating NSTableView with data. The first approach is to use the NSTableViewDataSource protocol, which we are applying widely in our samples. The second approach
.NET Using LDAP for User Authentication We at RemObjects Software have been using LDAP for centralizing the authentication for all our different projects, like our issue tracker, internal websites, calendar and jabber and it’s been working very well.
Everything is Relative Today i want to talk a bit about “Relativity”, a new feature we’re shipping with Data Abstract this month (and which is actually available as “tech preview”in the current Winter 2009
Left Outer Joins in DA LINQ. In terms of improving DA LINQ, I’m happy to announce that i have just committed improved support for the LEFT OUTER JOIN in the next release of the Data Abstract for .NET.
Visualizing Data with Core-Plot Core Plot is an open source graphing framework for Cocoa developers that makes it really easy to add graphs to your applications for the Mac and iPhone. Over the past half year, i’
.NET 4.0 BigInteger support The February release of Delphi Prism will include support for the new .NET 4.0 “BigInteger” type for all integer constants. BigInteger is a new class that let’s it’s users define
Reusing C# in Your Prism Projects One of the (few) concerns we hear from people looking to get started with Delphi Prism is that most of the code samples and snippets that are available on the net are written
Dev Diary - an Introduction to Shimmer In the Mac world, there’s a great little library called Sparkle. It uses RSS feeds to facilitate the distribution of software updates, with a minimum of code required in the application. Our
Using NSPredicateEditor with DADataTable Today I want to talk about NSPredicateEditor and how to use it with a DADataTable. What is NSPredicateEditor… Cocoa’s NSPredicateEditor class provides an excellent way to compose predicates at runtime. The main