After 15+ years, Google cut off our "forever free" business account yesterday.
Sustainable/Open Business
🕑Aug 17, 2022 🖋John Locke
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Expressing complex systems of information
It's great to boil down information into simple bite-sized chunks. But for so many kinds of information, it's just not that simple. Ecological systems. Policy decisions. Your body. Your website.
🕑Nov 12, 2021 🖋John Locke
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Picking a technology for internal use
The only kinds of proprietary software Freelock actually pays for are development and testing tools – tools we use to actually create our work products, or provide us with access to tools we otherwise can’t support (e.g. testing across a bunch of browsers we don’t have).
🕑Mar 28, 2021 🖋John Locke
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Picking a technology for a client project
Aside from the technologies we choose to develop expertise in and market prominently, we can support a range of related technologies without much trouble. Given our experience and expertise, this means we’re comfortable in just about anything in PHP. If a client comes to us with an existing platform and want our support with it, we’re happy to provide it.
🕑Apr 06, 2020 🖋John Locke
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Technical Debt and CMS maintenance
As we onboard a slew of new clients due to our joining
🕑Mar 31, 2020 🖋John Locke
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News: FuseIQ and Freelock joining forces!
Seattle, Washington, March 31, 2020. For immediate release.
🕑Mar 05, 2020 🖋John Locke
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Picking a technology to develop expertise and sell services
Just like doing a client project, we apply DevOps to the decision-making process. Don’t start with a blank slate – start with something, anything, apply the requirements, and iterate.
🕑Feb 27, 2020 🖋John Locke
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WordPress vs Drupal is like Word vs Excel
Seems like every day this month I've answered the same question: Why should I use Drupal instead of WordPress? And this is the answer I've come up with. They are entirely different applications, about as different as Microsoft Word is from Microsoft Excel.
🕑Dec 02, 2019 🖋John Locke
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Freelock mail server upgrade
To our clients using our email hosting:
I hope you had a great Thanksgiving!
Yesterday we turned on a shiny brand new mail server.
🕑Oct 29, 2019 🖋Nick Kelly
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Don't Play Whack-a-mole on Prod!
If you’re making improvements to your sites, even as simple as pushing updates, you’re going to be changing things around. Inevitably, you’ll break something. Wouldn’t you like to find that out before the production site goes down from the “improvements”?
🕑Sep 23, 2019 🖋John Locke
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Why have a technology decision-making process?
In short, choosing a particular technology allows us to:
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Make a decision once and leverage the results over and over
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Increase profitability
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Increase developer satisfaction
🕑Jun 11, 2019 🖋John Locke
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Layout Builders versus Content Management - are you making this mistake?
Glitzy websites are all the rage these days. Everybody seems to be looking for easy ways to create multimedia-rich pages with ease.