smack! Thanks Ken, I needed/deserved that. My own fault too, I get all wrapped up in a coding project and forget about the forums. I need to participate in the forums more often.
> There are some examples in the various SDK's. But, if you feel the > world needs better examples, then please make one, and put it up on the > Palm Dev FAQ (http://www.flippinbits.com/palmdevfaq). Fair enough... :o) I would be glad to contribute. > > I believe that the palm developer community, while full of great programmers > > and super nice people, generally hold back information for fear of ??... > > (oh I have to assume again) competition? (that's a whole other discussion). > > What? I've never met a more helpful bunch of folks in general than the > Palm Community. There's the occasional flake, but the vast majority are > good folks who are just really busy. No argument here. > > help... "hell, I had to go digging for it, so why should I tell you?" > > The only way to combat this is to get involved, and in a slightly more > lasting way than to send a note in the mailing list. > > The PalmDevFAQ wiki is available (http://www.flippinbits.com/palmdevfaq) > for anyone who wants to take the time to register and add content to it. > > I'd *love* to see people starting to add example code, new questions, > etc. > > The bottom line, though, is that most of the folks who've figured it out > already are extremely busy folks. Be thankful for the replies you do > get, and be willing to go the extra mile to dig out information. Again... I agree. > "Bugging the crap out of them"? I sure hope people don't start thinking > of this as viable way to go. If the signal to noise ratio gets too bad, > nobody who knows what they're doing will be hanging out on this mailing > list. > > Think about it. Let's say you're an ace-guru programmer, but you've got > 3 months worth of work to do in 2 months, and you see yet another person > on the mailing list asking a question you've seen (and seen answered) > lots of times. It's clear they either haven't looked in the archives, > looked in the FAQ, or read the docs. > > Are you going to take the time to answer? Not really. > I think the best part of the solution is for more people to start contributing > to the dev FAQ, and more people suggesting that others go look at it. > > I'd be very surprised if the folks at PalmSource, bless them, took much stock in > most of the various rantings on the mailing list. > > They've now got 2 versions of the operating systems to support, in addition to > a whole new tool chain that they didn't have before. > > If you think we need more examples, then write some and upload them to the FAQ: > (http://www.flippinbits.com/palmdevfaq) > > -Ken Wow... I forgot about this site! Looks like I have more reading to do. :o) -=RA -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/support/forums/
