Mike, looking for information about integrating a data collection Software as a Service (SaaS) offering, asked:
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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.
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.
Selling a Drupal-based product
A month or so ago, this question came up in a
Performance problem: N! database calls
Kicking off some posts about various performance challenges we've fixed.
N Factorial
[Edit: Thomas point out this is not really factorial, because it's addition of each number in the sequence intead of multiplication].
I've got a theory: The Scientific Method applied to web site performance
What can you do about this page being so slow? That's a question we've been asked by half a dozen customers in the past 6 months, and as it turns out, we can do quite a lot.