Programming Visual Basic for the Palm OS

Acknowledgments

Collectively, we would like to thank our editors at O’Reilly: Tim O’Reilly, Troy Mott, Frank Willison, and Bob Herbstman. There many events during this project that we were sure signaled the end: blown deadlines, rewrites necessitated by new software releases from AppForge and Palm, the sad and demanding events of September 11th, and simple changes in the market. Through it all we were encouraged to stay the course, in particular by Bob and Troy. We also love the flying fish on the cover, and we thank the design department at O’Reilly for finding them.

This book benefited greatly from the efforts of our formal technical reviewers, Bob Holt and Neil Rhodes. Both caught many small and not-so-small errors; of course, we assume responsibility for any remaining errors. Neil, in particular, seemed almost omniscient. We also had the help of a longtime AppForge developer, John Bonin, who provided great feedback on the usability of the first three chapters. And there are many indirect contributors who posted remarks and comments to the user forums; we learned a great deal simply studying these postings.

Matthew Holmes

I would like to thank first my long-suffering family, particularly my beautiful and patient wife Liz and my children Jonathan, Molly, and Claire. They tolerated and encouraged this effort, providing many boosts when the going was difficult.

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