Glenn
I personally appreciate very much your work and knowledge. I haven't been
around as
a palm programmer for a long time. A couple of months ago I encountered the
opportunity to
start programming this kind of devices. I want to say that when I needed
some documentation
on palm programming a couple of months ago there was not much out there and
not too helpful either, that is why
I relied on this forum heavily for a while. I was waiting for your book to
come out since May.
Now that I have it, I wish it would've been out there when I started
programming. However,
I am very glad that now, there is another book out there that is as helpful
and descriptive as
yours. I really think Brian is in a mistake since, "Palm Programming, The
Authoritative Solution"
is a very helpful guide to palm programmers.
Thanks for sharing your knowledge with the rest of us.
Silvia
At 01:06 PM 8/8/99 -0400, you wrote:
>At 09:27 PM 8/6/99 -0500, you wrote:
>>I have both books. I haven't found the SAMs book to be too useful. It
>>attempts to cover every possible way to create a program for the Palm, ie
>>Satellite forms, Pendragon, etc. I found the chapter on writing an app
>>from scratch to be to high level. It didn't give me any more information
>>from the coding from scratch perspective that the Developers Guide didn't
>>already have in it.
>
>Brian,
>
>I (obviously) want to stay out of this discussion, but I want to avoid
>confusion: you are clearly referring to "Teach Yourself Palm Programming in
>24 Hours". It covers SatForms, Pendragon, etc. My book "Palm Programming:
>The Authoritative Solution", which is the SAMS book that was mentioned in
>the original post, is *totally* aimed at CodeWarrior C/C++ developers. It
>presents chapters on many different aspects of palm programming using
>Codewarrior and the Palm SDK with C/C++, starting with "Hello Palm", and
>proceeding through user interface, database, serial, ir, and palm VII/pqa
>development.
>
>I don't mind negative criticism at all, but I want to make sure there is no
>confusion on this forum as to which book you are referring to (It didn't
>help that the publisher and several of the online book vendors originally
>had the titles of the two books confused)
>
>Looking forward to feedback (positive or negative) on the book, via this
>forum or via personal e-mail.....
>
>
>Glenn Bachmann
>Bachmann Software and Services, LLC
>http://www.bachmannsoftware.com
>Software for Handheld & Wireless Computing, Windows and the Internet
>Authors of "Palm Programming", published by Macmillan/Sams, and home of
>Bachmann Print Manager, the only graphical printing solution for the Palm
>Computing Platform
>
>
>
