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๐Ÿ•‘Mar 20, 2016 ๐Ÿ–‹John Locke ๐Ÿ’ฌ1

How do you rate Performance?

How quick do pages on your site load? How quick should they load? How do you make pages load quicker?
Why should you care?

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๐Ÿ•‘Nov 19, 2015 ๐Ÿ–‹John Locke ๐Ÿ’ฌ3

Content Management on the Web has changed. Today.

November 2015

Today marks the release of Drupal 8, and the birthday of its founder, Dries Buytaert. This release is more than just a new digit, it's an entirely new platform with something for everyone to love, but it's particularly big for web site owners.

What's the big deal? The biggest, most powerful, one of the most successful open source projects in the world has two major, fundamental changes that change everything you thought you knew about it.

Well, not everything. Lots of the things that people love about Drupal are getting some nice improvements:

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๐Ÿ•‘Oct 11, 2015 ๐Ÿ–‹John Locke ๐Ÿ’ฌ3

Quality-oriented Drupal DevOps

Here are the slides from my 2015 Drupal Summit talk, Quality Drupal DevOps!

You can also click here to open in a new window, full screen.

๐Ÿ•‘Sep 29, 2015 ๐Ÿ–‹Don Dill ๐Ÿ’ฌ5

Countdown to Drupal 8!

Drupal 8 has only 4 critical issues before getting released out of beta! Fingers crossed for a release this week!

๐Ÿ•‘Jul 01, 2015 ๐Ÿ–‹John Locke ๐Ÿ’ฌ0

Embed or integrate? The problem with widgets

We hear it all the time:

Why do you recommend a 6 hour budget for a simple integration? Here's an embed widget right here -- if this were WordPress I could do it myself!

Well, in Drupal you can do it yourself, exactly the same way you might in WordPress. Add a block, use an input format that doesn't strip out Javascript, paste in your code, put the block where you want it on your page, and away you go.

๐Ÿ•‘Jun 16, 2015 ๐Ÿ–‹John Locke ๐Ÿ’ฌ12

The case for git as a deployment tool

More and more I keep running into assertions that Git is a version control tool, and that if you use it for deployment, you're doing it wrong.

Why?

At Freelock we find it to be a very effective deployment tool, and I'm not seeing a solution that meets our needs any better.

Two presentations in particular caught my attention recently mentioned this: