Thanks for your response!
Although I would love to take your course, I am now "between jobs" and
I fear that the cost would be prohibitive.
Dan
JB Parrett wrote:
> on 9/3/00 7:37 PM, Dan Samber at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> > It seems to me that almost all the questions posed are (eventually) solved
> > with some kind soul providing a snippet of source code. In the ideal world the
> > palm documentation would provide this in addition to the VERY minimal
> > description they currently provide!
>
> As a new Palm employee and 3-year veteran of Palm development, I agree. It
> isn't that no one at Palm felt it wasn't needed, but rather, there weren't
> many folks sitting around idle to work on it. I would love to see more
> context in the docs, and I have started working with the doc writers to move
> in this direction. It will take some time, but I promise to keep nudging us
> in that direction...
>
> > Until this happens... is there some web site or other bit of documentation
> > that
> > provides what I am describing? Grepping through the example sources can
> > be tiring and usually these programs are too complicated to be used optimally.
>
> My search for truth usually goes like this:
> 1. Search the dev forum archives
> 2. Search the Knowledge Base
> 3. Build a file set in CodeWarrior's Search feature of all the Sample Code
> (or use a tool like SpeedSearch [Mac], one of the OS built-in search
> utilities [all OSs], or grep [where available]).
>
> Now, this seems like a lot of work, but after working for years with
> development systems where there was _much_ less to work with, I've found
> this approach helpful. The upside is that the OS is simple enough that
> you'll find yourself doing this less and less as you go.
>
> Another approach - take the Palm OS Essentials course. In one week, we
> address most of the mysterious side effects of the API that developers
> commonly struggle with, cover all the CodeWarrior/Debugger/POSE/Constructor
> 'features,' give you some great reference cards to take home, and you have
> the opportunity to hear people like me tell really lame jokes. And we buy
> you lunch! Just a thought...
>
> JB
>
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> JB Parrett [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Palm, Inc.
>
> We grow a lot faster than trees,
> so we miss a lot of stuff. - B. Andreas
>
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