When the Olympic Peninsula Tourism Commission came to Freelock Computing to convert their static HTML site into a newly designed, Drupal-driven CMS, I'm not going to lie, a few drops of drool fell from my mouth.
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🕑Aug 10, 2009 🖋John Locke
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Managing development projects with Dojo and Git
At Freelock, we're big fans of the Dojo Toolkit. It's a Javascript library for providing data-backed widgets in web applications, on-the-fly graphing, animations, and much more.
🕑Aug 10, 2009 🖋John Locke
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Stuck on the Launchpad
August 2009
Jedi mind tricks for getting your web site done
We see it all the time. Our clients hire us to get a web site put together. We build it, provide tools, training, and everything, and then it sits there on our development server, waiting for them to finish writing up those new pages they wanted to add. Weeks go by. Then months. And in a couple cases, years.
🕑Jul 08, 2009 🖋John Locke
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Another reason to love git
So once more, development on an internal project hit a stumbling block. The latest release of Dojo, 1.3.1, has some bug fixes I'd like to use, and in general I like to keep my main project working with the newest dojo releases.
🕑Jun 17, 2009 🖋John Locke
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The Vendor/Client relationship
Now here's a great video, which pretty much sums up the experience of, dare I say, every web professional?
🕑Jun 17, 2009 🖋Erik Olson
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Is Your Business Ready for a (non-Twitter) Community?
After receiving multiple requests for a follow-up to my anti-Twitter rant a few months back, I've decided to try and do just that.
🕑Jun 02, 2009 🖋John Locke
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Why am I suddenly getting more spam? (Careful, rant ahead...)
One of our clients asks why she's suddenly getting more spam, and what we can do about it.
For a few years, she got no spam at all, and then suddenly she's getting upwards of 80 a week. What happened?
🕑May 26, 2009 🖋John Locke
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Black Vodka, a Finnish Sauna, and a Database
May 2009
As I got on the plane to Helsinki, I wondered if I had been duped. I was flying blind--I didn't know where I was staying, whether anybody would be there when I arrived, or if I would end up sitting in a hotel room by myself for three days. But when the well-known founder of a billion dollar company invited me to his home to help my business, I figured I'd better get on that plane.
🕑May 18, 2009 🖋John Locke
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Ask Freelock: What's this Twitter thing, and how do you use it?
George asks, why is everybody talking about Twitter?
🕑May 18, 2009 🖋John Locke
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Software to be bug-free, guaranteed?
So here's what I think happened. A bunch of attorneys got really ticked about their computers crashing all the time.
🕑Apr 26, 2009 🖋John Locke
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Hacking Business Models Presentation at LinuxFest NW
I just gave a presentation on Hacking Business Models and Open Source Business.
For those interested, here's my slide deck...
Cheers,
John
🕑Apr 23, 2009 🖋Erik Olson
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A Crossroad in the Future of Drupal
As the dust begins to settle across the tech industry from the recent acquisition of Sun Microsystems by rival Oracle, a number of projects in the Open Source community, including Drupal, will have major strategic decisions to make that could deeply impact their future success.
