On Sunday, Decemeber 7th at 9:00pm EST we’ll be performing a maintenance and reliability update on PingMe, so the web interface will be temporarily unavailable, possible until 10pm EST, although we expect things to go a bit quicker than that.

On Monday, December 8th at 9:00pm, we’ll be moving the beta version of Tempo to the main site so that it will be come the default interface. The web interface will be temporarily unavailable and any existing sessions will be closed, requiring you to login the next time you visit the site.

We’re very excited about that second one, been a long time coming! After months of vetting and feedback from our users, the new user interface for Tempo will become the default.

PingMe is getting a patch to take care of setting dates in the next calendar year without having to specify the year, and code that improves our follow-backs on Twitter.

Don’t publish API documentation in PDF and then disable copy & paste.

But if you do, please don’t use images for the code examples on your web documentation.

We’ve long had a product called STRIP for Palm OS. This Secure Tool for Recalling Important Passwords encrypted account records in its database using a password supplied by the user. It’s been very popular on the Palm platform, in particular with IT folks, for quite some time (here’s an article on ZDNet from back when the Internet’s crust was cooling, and here’s a write-up on CNN.com).

Given the almost universal abandonment of the Palm platform and OS over the past few years, we’ve ceased to officially support Palm Strip. Many of our users have gotten in touch to inquire if we might take the program to another platform going forward, and to date our response has been to decline.

However, Stephen recently completed assembling a version of SQLite that provides high-grade OpenSSL encryption for embedded databases, sqlite-cipher. With this proven, secure technology as our foundation, we’ve decided to build a new version of STRIP on the iPhone platform.

It’s currently in development and we hope to have it ready to rumble by December.

These were being passed out today in NYC and LA (I’m told 1.2 million copies), a fake NY Times. Whatever your feelings on the war, it’s brilliantly done:

You’d never know looking at it right away that it wasn’t a real paper. It’s dated July 4th, 2009.

Update: looks like there’s a bit of video about the prank.

We’re turning into jQuery nerds.