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Palm OS Developer's Guide

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The title and book description are both misleading, and frankly, I think deliberately so, given that the book does _NOT_ even attempt to address Palm development. This is _NOT_ a Palm OS developers guide at all, it is a Palm Web Clipping develoepr's guide. If that's what you're looking for it's not a bad resource.

This book covers web-clipping and related topics almost exclusively. It is in NO way an overview of Palm Programming. I had to return my copy. The Palm OS Bible is vastly superior.

The book showed me how to send faxes from my Palm OS device--within applications and Web clippings ... Very easy ... I'm using the capability in several Web pages for my sales folks.

Using code (and Active Server Pages) the book presents, I was able to write code that retrieves documents (word, excel, images, palm stuff too) my PC.

Accessing my home PC was easy (no firewall). I changed the Active Server Page code some to work in the firewall environment at my office.

Good stuff. The apps port easily to other handhelds such as the PocketPC

I've just gotton started with Web clippings. The book is packed with examples. One of the chapters mentioned that I can now create Adobe Acrobat documents for the Palm -- it was really easy. We are porting our documentation to Palm via PDF-like files (great quality and fast).

I also learned how to convert AVI video files for use on the Palm. (Consumes quite a bit of memory -- but makes a great demo).

The problem with PQAs is they are difficult if not impossible to update after a user downloads and installs them.

The book shows ways a PQA can upgrade itself--by testing if a newer version is available when the user starts the Web clipping. The code works -- is easy -- all PQAs should use it.

The book also shows how the user can build a custom PQA. Cool!

Highly recommend.

If you develop web clippings, you want this book on your bookshelf. The book focuses on network interactions -- shows you how to do just about anything a PC can do using a Palm ...

This is the best the Web clipping content I have found. They should have called it Palm Web Clipping Deveoper's Guide. I'm very glad I found it.

I've been creating Web clippings for almost a year -- I had know idea of the power I had been missing.

This dev guide presents (hundreds of) active server pages that connect to web clippings that change everything you thought you could do with a Palm.

I can now retrieve files (any file) from my PC using my Palm -- it's cool. I ran the demo to place a file I had left at home onto my PC at the office using my Palm! My boss was watching and made me install the program on his Palm. It was cool.

The book does a myriad of things with ASP -- but it does them not only from Web clippings, but also from within Palm OS programs that interact with pages using the network library.

This is the best Palm Programming book I have found. Period! Others show you how to do simple things -- this book shows you how to turn the Palm into a notebook PC.

If you create Web clippings, this book is filled with tons of code that will save you time.

I am making great use of the code that lets users create their own "custom" PQAs on the fly!

I write a lot of Web clippings--in the past--users would submit forms that had to make a "round trip" from the palm to the server back to the palm because the user omitted a form or entered an errant value.

The book shows how to validate a form's contents before shipping it to the server. (If you work on the Web, you would use JavaScript to do validate the form's fields--but JavaScript doesn't exist in Web clippings). The book shows you an invaluable work around.