Treo Believer and the Lost Segments
Being a Kyocera QCP-6035 owner, I've been a little skeptical of the new Handspring Treo, but this review by Dan Bricklin has convinved me that there's something special about this phone/PDA combo. The description of how the keyboard handles the problem of big fingers struck me as really intelligent design, and right now, I'm excited that Sprint PCS will be stocking the CDMA version of this phone this summer.
Something to Avoid in the CW IDE
I really like the CodeWarrior IDE, but sometimes I find a bug that really gets me upset. Yesterday, I found one of those bugs. As a CW developer, I have several different CodeWarrior products installed on my system, and each of them has their own instance of the IDE. In some cases, I get these products all merged together, but I'd not yet merged my CodeWarrior for Palm OS V8 install with my CodeWarrior for Windows V7 install.
I opened one of my larger Palm OS projects using a double click on the project file in Windows Explorer, and it came up in the wrong IDE. I learned this pretty quickly, due to the error message about being unable to load the 68K Linker, so I quit that IDE and dragged the project to the Palm V8 icon on my desktop.
The project loaded correctly, but it wouldn't build. Apparently, the bad IDE had modified the project when it loaded it, losing all the segmentation information I'd set before. However, it did this without saving a copy of the project or even letter me know that data was gone.
I was able to resegment pretty easily, and I could have restored a backup of the project if I really needed to do so. I've already reported this problem to the IDE technical lead, and I'll probably spent a little time trying to track this down and fix it for IDE 5.0 so it won't happen in the future. In the meantime, I'm going to manually merge my two IDEs together so I can open via double-click and not get any bad surprises.
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