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Drupal automation platform, ECA module, Rules module, BPMN visualization, Typed Data integration
🕑Jan 10, 2025 🖋John Locke 💬0

Ask Freelock: ECA vs Rules

Yesterday a client asked us to install Rules module (again, repeating an earlier request, when he had missed my answer that we had installed ECA instead).

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🕑Aug 30, 2024 🖋John Locke 💬0

Measuring Results with Analytics

August 2024

Hi,

At Freelock we're kicking off our long-anticipated "Vision" program, a series of newsletters, blog posts, and videos about website effectiveness. Before we get into the meat of things, we're setting the stage with the question, "How do we know if it worked?" And the answer is -- data.

So this month we're looking at a primary source of data, Website analytics.

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🕑Aug 27, 2024 🖋John Locke 💬0

What site owners need to know about Analytics

Stuart always has insightful things to say about Website analytics. Here's a conversation we had a while back, about the key things site owners should consider with their website analytics, and the serendipity to be found by digging through data and talking with each other.

DALL·E 2024-03-17 17.31.45 - Visualize Moore's Law in an abstract concept, showing a curve exponentially rising from left to right on a graph. The background is filled with various bulbs and a circuit board
🕑Aug 24, 2024 🖋John Locke 💬4

The rising costs of site ownership

How much do you spend on your website? I'm not asking how much it cost you to create/build -- I mean day to day, what does it cost to own and maintain your site?

And what happens if you stop paying that?

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🕑Aug 22, 2023 🖋John Locke 💬2

Rate Limiting an aggressive bot in Nginx

High load isn't necessarily an emergency, but it may be a heads-up before a site noticeably slows down. Sometimes there are weird spikes that just go away, but sometimes this is an indication of a Denial of Service.