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Washington state map with tax symbol over Seattle skyline.
🕑Sep 19, 2025 🖋John Locke 💬0

Upcoming Sales Tax changes for Washington

Starting next month (October 2025), Washington businesses and residents will be paying sales tax on a slew of new services -- including custom web development, IT services, digital advertising, and even temporary workers.

Drupal, table sorting, data management, content reporting, HTML tables
🕑Jan 28, 2025 🖋John Locke 💬0

Ask Freelock: Sortable tables?

Kevin asks,

Is there a Drupal Add On or Widget that would allow users to sort tables as they're displayed on the website?

Hi, Kevin,

Several options here:

Cliff person smile Drupal  jousting
🕑Jan 17, 2025 🖋John Locke 💬0

Drupal CMS: Making the easy stuff easy

In the past couple days I've gotten two different questions regarding building functionality out in WordPress. This seems a bit...weird with timing, given that Drupal CMS just launched three days ago!

Drupal automation platform, ECA module, Rules module, BPMN visualization, Typed Data integration
🕑Jan 10, 2025 🖋John Locke 💬0

Ask Freelock: ECA vs Rules

Yesterday a client asked us to install Rules module (again, repeating an earlier request, when he had missed my answer that we had installed ECA instead).

Code monster
🕑Mar 29, 2018 🖋John Locke 💬3

Drupalgeddon2: Should I worry about critical security updates?

No, you should not. You should let us worry about them, and go back to your business.

Seriously, we're getting questions from all kinds of people about whether this matters. I'm a bit surprised that there is any question about that. Would you be concerned if your top salesperson was selling for somebody else? If your cashiers were jotting down credit card numbers when they charged a card? If your office became a well-known spot for illicit drug or gun dealers? If your office had a bunch of scammers squatting and running a pyramid scheme? If your confidential client information could be revealed as easily as using a bic pen on an old Kryptonite lock?

Bic Pen vs Kryptonite Lock

We've seen some variation of every single one of those scenarios. And all of them are possible with a remote code execution flaw in a web application, like yesterday's Drupal security vulnerability.

And yet people still