A couple weeks ago I wrote a post on why customers complain about Drupal -- the short version is that they either had incorrect expectations, or "developers" who were in over their heads.
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🕑Sep 24, 2011 🖋John Locke
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The hidden costs of e-commerce sites
Mavis asks,
I have already spent thousands of dollars on my [Zen Cart] website. What would be your advice for [a company] who wants to transfer their site to a new host but not redesign it?
🕑Sep 07, 2011 🖋John Locke
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5 reasons Drupal projects suck: Hapless customer edition
At Freelock, we're huge fans of Drupal. But we keep running into customers (or potential customers) who are terrified of it. So here's our take on why.
🕑Sep 01, 2011 🖋John Locke
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Why auto updates are a very bad idea
A question came across the Drupal Developer's list today asking whether Drupal could auto-update itself, like WordPress. As someone who thinks about security a lot, the very thought of this horrifies me.
It's a bad idea for several reasons, but the biggest reason:
🕑Aug 26, 2011 🖋John Locke
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My site needs to be secure. How will you address this?
That's the essence of a question I got today. And it's not one that can be answered easily, because there's no such thing as a site being "secure." It's not an either/or question, it's really a "how much" type of question. How hot is it today?
🕑Aug 09, 2011 🖋John Locke
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Confidentiality, Integrity, or Availability
Not 2 weeks after my newsletter calling out how people take for granted that nothing bad will happen to their web sites, two of the biggest providers went down yesterday, Amazon and Akamai, in several separate incide
🕑Aug 03, 2011 🖋John Locke
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Is Drupal 7 ready?
Short answer: it depends.
We still do most of our projects in Drupal 6, mainly because it's been around a few years, and modules we use on many sites are not yet stable for Drupal 7 (and some are still a ways off).
🕑Aug 01, 2011 🖋Matt Simmons
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Open Atrium: A project manager's perspective
Here at Freelock, we've been making the transition to using Open Atrium as our project management platform, and thus far I've been quite impressed with it.
🕑Jul 27, 2011 🖋John Locke
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A question of risk
July 2011
How would losing your web site affect your business?
That might seem like a silly question, but a surprising number of small organizations don't think it can happen to them. Think again -- web sites get lost all the time, through a variety of means. The server hosting your site might have a hardware failure. Your site might get hacked. Your web developer might accidentally delete something critical. Your host might go out of business, leaving you stranded. If you're in the tech world, you hear about these incidents all the time.
🕑Jul 26, 2011 🖋Matt Simmons
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Follow up (+1!)
Illustrating the point I made previously about the value of Google+ integration, ITProPortal reports on a growing trend of businesses devoted to selling Google +1s to highlight company listings in
🕑Jul 13, 2011 🖋Matt Simmons
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Google+ for small business
The recent beta release of Google+ provides a good opportunity to revisit a topic in which our clients have expressed a keen and consistent interest- leveraging social media to promote small business.
🕑Jul 08, 2011 🖋John Locke
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What is Cloud Computing?
Cloud computing has been a buzzword for the past couple years, but what does that really mean, and why should you care?