If you're just starting palm programming I'd definitely suggest getting the book. It explains the big picture and then demonstrates how to do pretty much anything you'd want to do in bite-sized code segments. I don't know how other people learned Palm, but this made things much easier for me, starting from scratch.
On 2/6/07, Glenn Bachmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi Patricia, > > I just caught this thread....I guess I'm happy to see the book discussed > at > all these days, positively or negatively! > > Regarding the Cobalt comments. At this point it may seem terribly > misguided > to have included a significant amount of coverage to Cobalt (kind of like > when Petzold devoted an entire book to OS/2), but you just have to trust > that at the time the book was being planned and written, PalmSource was > quite seriously representing that Cobalt was the next Palm OS version to > be > released (Palm OS 6). Because of this, the publisher made a decision that > the next update to the Palm OS Programing Bible (now called Professional > Palm OS Programming) needed to cover how to program both Garnet and > Cobalt, > and they looked to me to help research and write up the newer Cobalt > content. Unfortunately for many reasons the market prospects for Cobalt as > a > licensable OS declined shortly after publication, and with the benefit of > hindsight it is clear that the Cobalt content adds little to the value of > the book. > > What I'd like to make clear is that the inclusion of Cobalt programming > information in no way takes away from the amount of relevant Garnet > programming information in the book. Essentially the way to look at the > book > is that it is the prior published "Palm OS Programming Bible", with the > _addition_ of new chapters and content covering Cobalt. Point being that > even if you rip out the pages covering Cobalt, you are still left with > amounts to a very valuable guide to Palm OS programming (the bulk of the > excellent Garnet material was written by the great Lonnon Foster). > > Hope this helps, > > Glenn Bachmann > President > Bachmann Handheld Solutions > The Experts in Mobile Software Application Development > www.bachmannhandheldsolutions.com > (973) 729 8628 > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Patricia > Cartwright > Sent: Tuesday, February 06, 2007 11:51 AM > To: Palm Developer Forum > Subject: Re: Palm OS Developer Suite > > The book has its disadvataes, but, unfortunately, it is one of the few > books out there... > --- Borszczuk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Patricia Cartwright wrote: > > > > > > > http://www.amazon.com/Professional-Palm-Programming-Wrox-Guides/dp/076457373 > X/sr=1-2/qid=1170778049/ref=sr_1_2/102-4146681-7213702?ie=UTF8&s=books > > > > Unfortunately half of this book is wasted by Cobalt stuff. More over, > > source code from this book make debug rom go crazy (Librarian for > > sure). But you got not much choice, and however I think it's not bad > > one, and not that outdated than others are, you can still get more > > from on-line tutorials + reading other sources. Just my > > $0,03 > > > > Regards, > > -- > > "Daddy, what "Formatting drive C:" means?"... > > > > Marcin > > http://wfmh.org.pl/carlos/ > > > > -- > > For information on using the PalmSource Developer Forums, or to > > unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/support/forums/ > > > > > -- > For information on using the PalmSource Developer Forums, or to > unsubscribe, > please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/support/forums/ > > > -- > For information on using the PalmSource Developer Forums, or to > unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/support/forums/ > -- For information on using the PalmSource Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/support/forums/
