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Ask Freelock: Build, embed, or integrate SaaS with Drupal?

… for information about integrating a data collection Software as a Service (SaaS) offering, asked: I was a little … from all over the place, and embed stuff from all sorts of Software as a Service offerings. Whereas Drupal developers …

Ask Freelock: My host is shutting down! What should I do?

… etc? They are inexpensive? "Software as a Service" (SaaS) is hugely popular right now. These are all proprietary … instead of somebody else's. Even the "successful" SaaS startups often get acquired by a larger player, and when …

Managing development projects with Dojo and Git

… So now you want to let another developer work on other features. Being git, this will be distributed. However you … So now you want to let another developer work on other features. Being git, this will be distributed. However you …

Ask Freelock: Is there a good alternative to Quickbooks?

… familiar with. There's also a mix here of open source, SAAS, and proprietary options. I'd ask first of all why do … 4 basic kinds of packages here: Software as a Service (SAAS) Client-only applications Client/Server applications …

Basecamp moves from Medium to WordPress, and kinda misses the point

… just outsource our (CRM, bookkeeping, project management, blog, whatever) system". Ok, I might agree with you if we're … Reblog , which details why they've moved their company blog from Medium to WordPress. They cited all sorts of … they don't go big, well, they might just go home with your blog. Even if they do have a successful exit, who's to say …

6 things to consider before the next AWS outage

… Recover all production websites from our secondary backup system Deploy a replacement mail server Most of that … infrastructure backlog tasks. In particular, our secondary backup system is currently at AWS, and might have been … I was actually looking at spinning up another secondary backup system at GCE, specifically to back up the AWS …

Own Your IT Systems

… alternatives you can run and own yourself. At Freelock, we support our business almost entirely on open source -- not … hood -- the commercial vendors just plain don't care to support Linux). But we have one of our own: BigBlueButton . … alternatives you can run and own yourself. At Freelock, we support our business almost entirely on open source -- not …

Part 2: Complaints of current site capabilities and establishing budget

… keep you much safer with our maintenance plans. With more SaaS (software as a service) platforms becoming available, … we’ve often heard that a potential client is on a SaaS platform and they’d really like to own their own …

Guiding Principles

… going to put your business at risk. Software As A Service (SAAS) applications are a rental model -- if you stop paying, … pay for service is that the service is optimized for the SAAS vendor, not for you. They are trying to make their …

Drupal deployment with Git Flow

… payment gateway and set as default, set Apache Solr search index to Read Only, etc. Continue on with the New Work … payment gateway and set as default, set Apache Solr search index to Read Only, etc. Continue on with the New Work …

The case for git as a deployment tool

… to a new point release of Drupal means merging the new tag into our branch. Then we've written a script to update … and the development copy on develop. And it created a git tag for the particular release. On production, we have … back to development and re-roll the release. git log/git tag -- identify the current state of the code base -- should …

How do you rate Maintainability?

… it takes to update, and the easier it is to keep secure. Industry Business Software Deployment Drupal Planet …

Countdown to Drupal 8!

… I have seen clients who are set on WordPress or another SAAS, just then to be blown away by the capabilities of … I have seen clients who are set on WordPress or another SAAS, just then to be blown away by the capabilities of …

Picking a technology for a client project

… us) for an alternative? (This is the biggest problem with SaaS…) How long do they expect this solution to last? How … addresses turn into links automatically. Allowed HTML tags: <a href hreflang> <em> <strong> <blockquote cite> …

8 Reasons Why Drupal 8

… what your site does. Compared to Software as a Service (SaaS) vendors, you are not stuck with an unresponsive vendor … -- you own everything, instead of being at the mercy of a SaaS landlord who might make decisions that have a big impact …

Jim Ovia Foundation

… year of included monthly site maintenance and one hour of support per month . Thanks partners at Jim Ovia! Additional … year of included monthly site maintenance and one hour of support per month . Thanks partners at Jim Ovia! … Jim Ovia …

Ask Freelock: Drupal vs Word Press?

… If you own a pet, by the way, head over and get a pet tag while they're still free! The pet tag has a QR code that will take people who scan it with a … If you own a pet, by the way, head over and get a pet tag while they're still free! The pet tag has a QR code that …