


New Year, New Website!
It's only taken two years since the release of Drupal 8 for us to get our own site updated... Cobbler's children and all. But finally, we are proud to unveil our shiny new site!
But wait, don't you tell your clients you don't need a new site?

The Spectre of a Meltdown
The news was supposed to come out Tuesday, but it leaked early. Last week we learned about three variations of a new class of attacks on modern computing, before many vendors could release a patch -- and we come to find out that the root cause may be entirely unpatchable, and can only be fixed by buying new computers.
Today Microsoft released a patch -- which they had to quickly pull when they discovered that it crashed computers with AMD chips.
Essentially Spectre and Meltdown demonstrate a new way of attacking your smartphone, your laptop, your company's web server, your desktop, maybe even your tv and refrigerator.
This all sounds dreadfully scary. And it is... but don't panic! Instead, read on to learn how this might affect you, your website, and what you can do to prevent bad things from getting worse.

Getting hands on with Drupal Commerce 2 - Onsite payments and Sales Tax
We're nearing launch of two new Drupal Commerce sites, one of them being this one. It turns out Freelock.com has some relatively sophisticated commerce needs: some taxable products, some non-taxable products. Recurring subscriptions. Arbitrary invoice payments.

Another Wednesday, another round of security updates
Drupal security updates generally come out on Wednesdays, to try to streamline everybody's time. WordPress security notices come out... well, whenever whichever feed you subscribe to bothers to announce something.

A slick migration trick - convert columns to multi-value field with subfields
In the previous post on A custom quan

A custom quantity price discount for Drupal Commerce
We're in the midst of a Commerce 2 build-out for a client, and a key requirement was to preserve their quantity pricing rules.

Do your clients have the priorities you think they have?
I just read a quick post over on another Drupal shop's blog, Be a Partner, not a Vendor, and added a comment to the great point Dylan made about n

Freelock Interviewed on Drupal and WordPress Expertise
In September, Freelock was recognized as a leading web development company in Seattle by Clutch.

It's not just how a website looks...
September 2017
... that counts. Results matter. What results are important for you? What are you trying to accomplish with your website?

Cyber/Physical security reflections, from an MIT Enterprise Forum talk
The only thing the homeowner may notice is a slight slowdown in their Internet connection. But meanwhile, their cable modem or webcam was out bringing down the Internet. This was just one of the scenarios described by David Hobbs at the MIT Enterprise Forum.