> > It's interesting to see that Palm programmers prefer to protect their > > precious code and functions and generally not share anything with > > anyone so that every new Palm Programmer has to reinvent the wheel. > > > > We do get a couple of helpful ones (eg Razor) but in general, it's a > > case of "figure it out yourself, I did." > > Isn't that a little exaggerated?
yeah, i think it was a little bit harsh - i for one, who often help out people here definately have been sharing a lot of code and ideas to fellow developers. some of these developers have turned into very professional developers (pity they dont acknolwedge that) :) i remember my first days back here in early 1999 - i got a few helpful posts from Tom Zerucha, Dave Lippincott, Mitch Fawcett, Michael Davis, Jun-Kiat Lam, Murray Dowling and many others. hmm.. some names have died off the mailing lists since then - makes you wonder what they are doing these days.. :) Murray Dowling posted the classic comment: --- Events are like snail mail - you do what you like with those intended for you, but you pass on those not meant for your eyes. Your code is a gross violation of the Postal Act :-) --- :) oh boy.. how things have changed since those times - i, used to be the stupid, "why doesn't this work, somethings wrong" type of person at one time too - i was also in that classic 'understand what you are doing before you try it' group of people :) we all start there *g* the tools are much better these days however, much easier to install, and to work with. those who even remember prc-tools 0.5.0 - memories :) hmm.. archives.. nasty threads back there :) boy, wasn't i nasty :) i stepped into a very strong mac developer group - and, i was very anti-mac :) heh. those who where around probably remember those threads - how times have changed. > This mailing list is packed with folks who give freely of their time > and energy to help others. i agree. surely, i dont have time to post to palm-dev-forum, but, i work 90+ hours a week, and i squeeze in the occasional time to post some tips/assistance to developers - in my OWN TIME. no-one pays me to post here, i get the maillist feed, and if i feel for it i go ahead an answer. > There are lots of code examples in various places. For advice and > snippets, you can search through the back articles on > http://www.escribe.com/computing. For fully released packages, you > can go to http://www.palmopensource.com. each of us also have our own code examples on our websites. i for one have had cube3d/burning available for quite some time; if anyone wants it, it is pretty easy to find. i know the idea of putting it all in a central location is nice - but, it takes time/effort which none of us can spare. you'll also find out that there are more than one forum here :) i have posted a bunch of helpful tips/hints on PNOlet development using gcc on the pnolet-forum. people should really be looking in the right place for stuff - not say "help me, urgent" part of being a good programmer is being able to find stuff :) --- Aaron Ardiri [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mobilewizardry.com/members/aaron_ardiri.php [profile] -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/support/forums/
