Palm OS Programming: The Developer's Guide, 2nd Edition

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Summary: New to conduits - thats the book you might want to buy
Review: This is a great book regarding to conduits. It explains some of the tricky things every single person has been through working with conduits for the very first time. The examples are good, maybe the authors could have spend a little more time developing clearer ways to explain them. But don't let it stop you. With a little bit effort and good C knowledge, you get there. There are also some chapters devoted to palm apps, which, I thought are not that bad. Anyway,if you're planning to write conduits, make sure to visit Palm's website and have this book around.

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Summary: Good book, but was hoping for more meat.
Review: This is certainly a well-written book detailing the intricacies of programming the main parts of the PalmOS, but I was hoping to find more "cool" stuff here, like patching system traps and changing the device to use grayscale mode in pre-3.0 OS devices. I was also hoping for more detail on writing other kinds of applications than just your standard database-driven-with-a-conduit type of application, such as games. Nevertheless, I highly recommend the book for people who are interested in learning to program the Pilot, but experienced programmers can pretty much find the same information in the documentation that ships with the Pilot SDK.

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Summary: Save your money. Avoid this book.
Review: This is the worst O'Reilly book that I have read.
The documentation that you can download from Palm is far better.
Disorganised and terribly incomplete, even if you read this book you will still need almost all the Palm online documentation.
Do yourself and your wallet a favour...

Dont buy this lemon.