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.

Rocketboom came by the Williamsburg Coworking space last Friday during the code-jam to do some interviews of the various folks working on the "TwitterVoteReport"http://twittervotereport.com project (from designers to press folks to coders), and ended up including Yours Truly among the interviewed. The resultant episode on their site provides a great introduction to what’s going on with TwitterVoteReport and how it works, so check it out:

Worth pointing out again and again, since the name might be a bit misleading, that it’s not just for Twitter. You’ll be able to send in SMS reportsn, report by telephone call, use an iPhone app (if Apple deigns to allow it in the app store on time), and a Google Android app is up in the Android Market.