

A hacked neglected site, Pantheon migration, and why you need a Drupal Site Assessment
We recently had a new client contact us and ask if we could move their sites over to Pantheon so they could do some in-house development work. Of course we can do that for you!
Drupal 8 is around the corner... time to upgrade?
We're starting to recommend Drupal 8 for some new upgrade projects, with the following notes...

You get out what you put in
March 2015
... this statement applies to just about any endeavor you can imagine... I've mostly heard it associated with education, the idea that you can get a good education anywhere if you work diligently at it and learn what the teacher has to teach -- and likewise, you can often skate by in good schools without coming out the other end with much learned.
Ask Freelock: Build, embed, or integrate SaaS with Drupal?
Mike, looking for information about integrating a data collection Software as a Service (SaaS) offering, asked:
How do you rate Maintainability?
Lately at Freelock, we've been improving our Drupal site assessment.
Drupal Dates off by timezone offset, after upgrading date module
Just a quick note of how we resolved an issue related to an upgrade to Date.
Why tech work is so hard to estimate
"Hey, since the upgrade, I can't use the power edit feature anymore!" came the request. Ok. There have been several different upgrades over the past few months. The menu editor module has been updated. The server has been upgraded.
Importing foreign key references with Migrate
One of our clients wanted to regularly update a list of dealers along with the parts carried at that dealer, and show them on a map.
Ask Freelock: Upgrade D6 to Drupal 7, or wait for 8?
Apparently there's some FUD (Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt) being sown by a few Drupal shops who are spreading downright wrong information about Drupal 8, trying to encourage people to upgrade to 7 now.

Own Your IT Systems
September 2014
Freelock status on Bash ShellShock vulnerability
The short answer: Not Vulnerable.
We've been asked by several customers about whether they or we are affected by the recently discovered Bash ShellShock vulnerability. And to the best of our knowledge, we are completely unaffected.
Ask Freelock: Why should I use "Media" links instead of just embedding, in Drupal?
Joaquin asks:
Sorry, John.
But when it comes to adding Youtube and Vimeo, you still haven't made the case for not going into the HTML.Here is a test page I created.