Palm Programming: The Developer's Guide

Whom We Need to Thank

If you haven’t already figured out that the people at Palm Computing deserve an enormous amount of gratitude, we will tell you now. Many people deserve our thanks, starting with Maurice Sharp, head of Developer Technical Support (DTS) at Palm Computing. He coordinated the dispersal of proof chapters and had the fortitude to read the whole manuscript while managing all the rest of his duties. Other DTS people who read the entire manuscript were David Fedor, Cheri Leonard, Gary Stratton, Bruce Thompson, and Ryan Robertson. Keith Rollin in Engineering also read the whole manuscript and gave us great comments, especially about debugging tools. If you have ever tried to do a technical review of a proof copy, you know how much work this is. These folks went the extra mile and obviously read on their own time (food spills are a sure-fire indicator of a dedicated individual), and for this we thank them profusely. If this book is useful to you, remember that these people had a great deal to do with that.

Other people at Palm Computing reviewed individual chapters in their own areas of specialty and gave us great advice. These include some folks in Engineering: Dan Chernikoff (for serial port communications), Bob Ebert, Roger Flores, Steve Lemke, Kelly McCraw, Chris Raff, and Tim Wiegman. Three managers also took time out of their schedules to make sure we covered enough of the bigger picture. They are Daniel Pifko (HotSync Product Manager), Phil Shoemaker (Tools Engineering ...