PDA Developers – Volume 4.6 – Nov/Dec 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
November, 1996
$13.95 US, $14.95 Canada
Perfect bound printed journal with light-pink-colored cover and white paper.
In this issue:
- PDA News
- Organizers and Two-Way Pagers
- System Integrator Profile: Green Mountain Software
- PDA Developers North
- NS BASIC Corner: A Bit of the NIE
- Previews and Reviews (The Envoy 150: Wireless From the Start, Revelar Connection Utility, On the Road with a Nokia 9000, Apple's New Newtons)
- Windows CE: Developer's Overview
- Using the Magic Internet Kit
- A Programmer's Peek at the New Newton OS
- Optimizing GEOS Applications
- Hacking the Pilot: Bypassing the Palm OS
- IZL String Function Utility
- Building Quality Handheld Applications
8.5" x 11" (48 pages)
PDA Developers 4.6
November, 1996
Acquired from publisher
2018-07-27
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PDA Developers Volume 4.6, dated November/December 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, located at 293 Corbett Avenue and reachable 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) was a special reprint of Volume 1.1 prepared for the 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
Volume 4.6 reflected that broader remit across its cover lineup, which spanned the major handheld platforms of late 1996: a first look at Windows CE, a Magic Cap Internet Kit, new Psions and new Newtons, Motorola's PageWriter, a review of the Envoy 150, Pilot hacking, and GEOS optimization.1
This issue closed out the PDA Developers title. The journal's next issue, Volume 5.1 for January/February 1997, appeared under a new name, Handheld Systems, continuing the same volume numbering and the same $13.95 U.S. cover price.4
Creative Digital also organized developer conferences under the PDA Developers banner, among them PDA Developers West '96 in San Mateo, California.5 The back cover of this issue advertised the event under its new name, the Handheld Systems Conference, set for April 24-26, 1997 at the San Francisco Airport Hilton.2 By March 1997 Creative Digital Publishing, Inc. had posted the conference's final agenda, describing the gathering as "formerly PDA Developers" and entering its third year.6
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Footnotes
- Creative Digital, Inc., PDA Developers - Volume 4.6 - Nov/Dec 1996 (image scan), November 1996
- Creative Digital, Inc., PDA Developers - Volume 4.6 - Nov/Dec 1996 (image scan), November 1996
- Creative Digital, Inc., PIE Developers - Volume 1.15 - November, 1993 (image scan), November 1993
- Creative Digital, Inc., Handheld Systems - Volume 5.1 - Jan/Feb 1997 (image scan), January 1997
- 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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