PIE Developers – Volume 1.15 – November, 1993
PIE Developers, later PDA Developers, was the premier, independent printed resource for PDA developers in the mid-to-late 1990s. Originally billing itself as “A Technical Journal for Newton Developers,” early issues contained detailed articles, tutorials, and coding examples focusing on the Apple Newton MessagePad platform.
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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Creative Digital, Inc.
United States
English
November, 1993
$8.95 US, $9.95 Canada
Saddled-stitched printed journal on cream-colored paper.
In this issue:
- Editor's Note: PIE Crust
- Real Miracles Sensibly Priced
- Newton Development - Glimpse of a New Era
- Getting Started Q&A
- What Skills Do I Need to Program a Newton?
- Which Mac Do I Buy to Develop for the Newton?
- MacsHex - A Second Newton Application
- Newton Developer Registry Guidelines
- SciCalc - A Scientific Calculator
- Blowing Smoke
- Downloading Data to Your Newton
- Soup's On
- Tales From The View System
8.5" x 11" (38 pages)
PIE Developers 1.15
November, 1993
Acquired from publisher
2018-07-21
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PIE Developers, subtitled "A Technical Journal for Newton Developers," was a printed periodical for software developers working on Apple's Newton platform.1 Volume 1.15, dated November 1993, carried a cover price of $8.95 in the United States and $9.95 in Canada.1 The issue was a special reprint of most of volume 1.1 of the magazine, produced for the Newton Platform Development Conference held December 7–8, 1993.1
The issue's articles were oriented toward learning to program the Newton, opening with Howard Oakley's Newton Development – Glimpse of a New Era and Jim Lanford's What Skills Do I Need to Program a Newton?1 Further pieces covered building a second Newton application, a scientific calculator, downloading data to the device, the NewtonScript soup data store, and the view system, with contributions from Mac Foster, Mike Engber, and George Henne.1 A reproduced interior page walked through creating NewtonScript view templates with the Newton Toolkit (NTK), advising developers on when to define views as templates rather than build them at runtime in order to conserve the device's RAM.2
By 1995, San Francisco–based Creative Digital Systems was publishing a journal for Newton and PDA developers under the title PDA Developers, operating from 233 Corbett Avenue under president and chief executive officer Gordon Mayer.3 The company also organized the PDA Developers technical conferences for the handheld-computing development community.3
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Footnotes
- Creative Digital, Inc., PIE Developers - Volume 1.15 - November, 1993 (image scan), November 1993
- 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
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