Derek Scruggs

Tonight I did a demo of SurveyGizmo at the Boulder Denver New Tech Meetup. I was fortunate to get a few laugh lines, but the credit really goes to Scott for putting together some nice screen shots and helping me work out exactly what to present.
A typical client demo or webinar can go on for […]

Though I’ve never been hit with a major denial of service attack, I constantly get hit by spammers and other gremlins trying to post their content on my sites. And one time last year an email spammer exploited a weakness in a script to use my server to send out tons of spam.
I HATE THESE […]

In re: my previous post about searching Google for Tianenmen, a couple people pointed out that in China they don’t use the English spelling of the word, and in fact don’t even use Western character sets. The simplified Chinese version of Tianenmen looks like this: 天安门
(Mainland China except Hong Kong uses the simplified character set.)
So […]

The  blogosphere has been abuzz of late about Google’s apparent caving in to the Chinese government’s request that they censor their search results. I’m of mixed feelings about this. Being radically moderate and having spent time in China, I think it’s silly to have a binary view of how things should be done there. (Though […]

This is pretty cool. Mail to the Future is a tool that allows you to schedule an email from yourself to yourself to be sent to you up to 30 years from now.

Here’s a great article that crystalizes some ideas I’ve been struggling with. More Evidence of a Maturing Software Industry talks about the slowing of the upgrade cycle for software like Microsoft Office. This is definitely a trend in mass market and some enterprise software, but there is still plenty of room for innovation in emerging […]

Boxes And Arrows has a neat little bio about Paul Otlet, who was waaaay ahead of his time in coming up with what could be described as primordial hypertext.

Christopher Clemper: “why not use a simple name or e-Mail for user-tracking?”

The userID can be anything as long as it’s unique - an email address, an ICQ handle etc.

In the marketing world, however, a common design goal is to minimize the amount of data a user has to submit in order to receive your […]