PDA Developers – Volume 4.4 – July/August 1996
PDA Developers, originally PIE Developers, was the premier, independent printed resource for mobile developers in the mid-to-late 1990s. Billing itself as “A Technical Journal for PDA Developers,” each issue contained detailed articles, tutorials, and coding examples covering all major handheld platforms.
Published by San Francisco-based Creative Digital Systems, the journal was expertly managed and edited by Steve Mann (who also wrote a number of articles in each issue).
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Artifact Details
Creative Digital, Inc.
United States
English
July, 1996
$13.95 US, $14.95 Canada
Perfect bound printed journal with light-yellow/green-colored cover and white paper.
In this issue:
- PDA News
- PDAs and Speech Recognition
- IR Reflections
- Combining Wireless Systems
- Java Jive
- Systems Integrator Profile - AllPen Software
- NS BASIC Corner - RIE
- Previews (The Ricochet Network, JavaOS: A Stand-Alone Java Environment,
- Go Units, Rah, Rah, Rah
- Getting Started with IZL
- OmniGo Express Menu Setup
- Dynamic Buttons - The UI Perspective
- NewtonScript Localization
- ATSlat - A Newton Shared Whiteboard
- The Playback Machine
- WorldTime: A Pilot World Clock
8.5" x 11" (66 pages)
PDA Developers 4.4
July, 1996
Acquired from publisher
2018-07-26
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PDA Developers Volume 4.4, dated July/August 1996, billed itself as "A Technical Journal for PDA Developers" and sold for $13.95 in the United States and $14.95 in Canada.1 It was published by Creative Digital, Inc. of San Francisco, which reached readers through its cdpubs.com web site.2
The publication had begun under a different name and a narrower focus: its predecessor, PIE Developers, described itself as "A Technical Journal for Newton Developers" and sold for $8.95 in the United States, and its November 1993 issue (Volume 1.15) reprinted earlier material for a Newton Platform Development Conference held December 7-8, 1993.3 By the time the journal was retitled PDA Developers, its focus had widened from the Newton specifically to handheld computing generally.13 An April 1995 announcement identified the publisher as Creative Digital Systems,4 and by early 1996 the company was styled Creative Digital, Inc.5
Volume 4.4 reflected that broader remit across its cover lineup, which spanned several handheld platforms: a first look at JavaOS, the Ricochet wireless service, Newton units and Newton communications, the OmniGo Express and IZL, Pilot WorldTime, Magic Cap music, NS Basic, and AllPen software.1
Creative Digital also organized developer conferences under the PDA Developers name, and the back cover of this issue advertised PDA Developers North, set for September 11-13, 1996 at the Inland Meeting and Exposition Center in Westmont, Illinois, followed by a PDA Developers Exhibition on September 14.2 By March 1997 the company, by then named Creative Digital Publishing Inc., had renamed the event the Handheld Systems Conference; entering its third year, it was scheduled for April 24-26, 1997 at the San Francisco Airport Hilton, with Steve Mann as the company's contact.6
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Footnotes
- Creative Digital, Inc., PDA Developers - Volume 4.4 - July/August 1996 (image scan), July 1996
- Creative Digital, Inc., PDA Developers - Volume 4.4 - July/August 1996 (image scan), July 1996
- Creative Digital, Inc., PIE Developers - Volume 1.15 - November, 1993 (image scan), November 1993
- Creative Digital, Inc., Creative Digital Systems - PDA Developers East '95 (Press Release) (image scan), April 1, 1995
- Creative Digital, Inc., PDA Developers West '96 Conference Details (Pamphlet) (image scan), January 1996
- Creative Digital Publishing Inc., Creative Digital Posts Handheld Systems Conference Final Agenda, March 17, 1997
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