RE: forum heart beat check

2009-02-10 Thread Philip Sheard
heart beat check Regis St-Gelais said (on or about) 02/09/2009 07:42: C# seems interesting since we already have exprerience with it on the desktop world. Did you enconter technical issues or was it just a learning curve issue ? The .NET library takes a little while to become familiar

Re: forum heart beat check

2009-02-09 Thread Regis St-Gelais
C# seems interesting since we already have exprerience with it on the desktop world. Did you enconter technical issues or was it just a learning curve issue ? -- Regis St-Gelais www.laubrass.com Philip Sheard shea...@tiscali.co.uk a écrit dans le message de news: 187...@palm-dev-forum...

RE: forum heart beat check

2009-02-09 Thread Thomas Frauenhofer
Philip Sheard shea...@tiscali.co.uk wrote: Palm is still knocking out the Tungsten E2 and the T|X. I don't believe they are any more, actually (at least the E2). It's getting harder to find a new one of these for sale. As for Garnet OS (old Palm OS) development, like others have said,

RE: forum heart beat check

2009-02-09 Thread Luc Le Blanc
Any chance an eBook (Kindle, Sony Reader, etc.) could load and execute a non-mobile app? They'd be closer to my target handheld than small and expensive contract-based smartphones. Luc Le Blanc -- For information on using the ACCESS Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see

RE: forum heart beat check

2009-02-09 Thread Philip Sheard
. SQL Server Mobile is slow too, and difficult to sync. There is no mechanism for syncing a database via an ActiveSync connection. -Original Message- From: Regis St-Gelais [mailto:regis.st-gel...@laubrass.com] Sent: 09 February 2009 12:42 To: Palm Developer Forum Subject: Re: forum heart beat

Re: forum heart beat check

2009-02-09 Thread Regis St-Gelais
Philip Sheard shea...@tiscali.co.uk a écrit dans le message de news: 187...@palm-dev-forum... There are serious technical issues with managed code, mainly involving performance, but also over stability. Thanks for the info. -- Regis St-Gelais www.laubrass.com -- For information on using

Re: forum heart beat check

2009-02-09 Thread Don Albertson
Regis St-Gelais said (on or about) 02/09/2009 07:42: C# seems interesting since we already have exprerience with it on the desktop world. Did you enconter technical issues or was it just a learning curve issue ? The .NET library takes a little while to become familiar with but at the

Re: forum heart beat check

2009-02-09 Thread Dmitry Grinberg
Isn't it great how nowhere in that [COMPLETELY CORRECT] explanation of how things work now there is any mention of the users and what they want :-) ? But I think all of that is moving into the past. The current marketing paradigm is to sell services that use air time. We don't need to

Re: forum heart beat check

2009-02-09 Thread Eric Bresie
So I wonder if Access would consider open sourcing Garnet OS... And unless webOS is gonna replace existing Centro, Treo, etc devices (...right...)...there is still some shelf life for Palm OS / Garnet OS development... -- Eric Bresie ebre...@gmail.com -- For information on using the ACCESS

RE: forum heart beat check

2009-02-09 Thread Philip Sheard
: forum heart beat check Isn't it great how nowhere in that [COMPLETELY CORRECT] explanation of how things work now there is any mention of the users and what they want :-) ? But I think all of that is moving into the past. The current marketing paradigm is to sell services that use air time. We

Re: forum heart beat check

2009-02-08 Thread Michal Seliga
don't forget Android... i already work on application for it. but I don't forget palm, there is lot of devices out there and people won't just throw them away because company stopped selling them. its like with psion, oficially dead but still very alive... Christopher Stamper wrote: On Sat,

Re: forum heart beat check

2009-02-08 Thread Roger Stringer
Stringer At 03:15 AM 2/8/2009, you wrote: Subject: Re: forum heart beat check From: Christopher Stamper christopherstam...@gmail.com Date: Sat, 7 Feb 2009 13:58:58 -0500 X-Message-Number: 2 On Sat, Feb 7, 2009 at 1:36 PM, Tam Hanna ta...@gmx.at wrote: Hi, weird...I wanted to send sth similar out

RE: forum heart beat check

2009-02-08 Thread Philip Sheard
. -Original Message- From: Roger Stringer [mailto:strin...@rf-tp.com] Sent: 08 February 2009 15:19 To: Palm Developer Forum Subject: Re: forum heart beat check From a developer's point of view, Palm OS is no longer terribly important and Access (aka PalmSource) don't appear to have

Re: forum heart beat check

2009-02-08 Thread Ben Rittgers
So, what do you recommend for POS devices? We use Palms with a receipt printer for our Point of Sale terminals for customer's delivery drivers. They are not likely to upgrade to a cell phone. It works on the Centro and Treo, but we don't officially support cell phones. We provide are

Re: forum heart beat check

2009-02-08 Thread Michal Seliga
from my experience customers want handhelds. if there are only smartphones available they would rather use tablet pc then smartphone. in company i am working for palmos version was killed by palm decision to stop handheld production - so far everyone moved to windows mobile or to tablets. reason

RE: forum heart beat check

2009-02-08 Thread Philip Sheard
at all costs. That is the way I went, my project collapsed in a pile of poo. I would recommend unmanaged C++, and ATL rather than MFC. -Original Message- From: Ben Rittgers [mailto:britt...@mchsi.com] Sent: 08 February 2009 18:55 To: Palm Developer Forum Subject: Re: forum heart beat

Re: forum heart beat check

2009-02-08 Thread Kent Loobey
Rittgers [mailto:britt...@mchsi.com] Sent: 08 February 2009 18:55 To: Palm Developer Forum Subject: Re: forum heart beat check So, what do you recommend for POS devices? We use Palms with a receipt printer for our Point of Sale terminals for customer's delivery drivers

RE: forum heart beat check

2009-02-08 Thread Philip Sheard
.Net is mainly C# and VB.Net. -Original Message- From: Kent Loobey [mailto:k...@uoregon.edu] Sent: 08 February 2009 22:11 To: Palm Developer Forum Subject: Re: forum heart beat check On Sunday 08 February 2009 13:54:46 Philip Sheard wrote: I too have a field sales app, and I take your

RE: forum heart beat check

2009-02-07 Thread Tam Hanna
] Sent: Samstag, 7. Februar 2009 09:15 To: palm-dev-forum digest recipients Subject: palm-dev-forum digest: February 06, 2009 PALM-DEV-FORUM Digest for Friday, February 06, 2009. 1. forum heart beat check 2. Re: forum heart beat check

Re: forum heart beat check

2009-02-07 Thread Christopher Stamper
On Sat, Feb 7, 2009 at 1:36 PM, Tam Hanna ta...@gmx.at wrote: Hi, weird...I wanted to send sth similar out a few days ago. Was a nice time with all of you... . Hope to see some of you again in the future on MSDN or Forum Nokia ;). Some of you may be waiting for the WebOS sdk... But I just

Re: forum heart beat check

2009-02-06 Thread Don Albertson
luis maldonado said (on or about) 02/06/2009 19:16: hi there, is the forum still alive or has it gone to it's place in forum heaven I've not received any activity in over three weeks. Anywho: farewell and thanks if it's the heaven bit, otherwise let's get some bits over the