Drupal
🕑Jan 21, 2016 🖋John Locke
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8 Reasons Why Drupal 8
Drupal 8 has been out for 2 months now, and there's never been a better time to choose Drupal for your website platform. Here are 8 reasons why!
🕑Jan 12, 2016 🖋John Locke
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Drupal 8 migration status and surprises
We're digging into our first dry-run migrations from Drupal 6 to Drupal 8, and learning a lot about what's ready and what's not. And there's some surprises in there...
🕑Nov 19, 2015 🖋John Locke
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Content Management on the Web has changed. Today.
November 2015
Today marks the release of Drupal 8, and the birthday of its founder, Dries Buytaert. This release is more than just a new digit, it's an entirely new platform with something for everyone to love, but it's particularly big for web site owners.
What's the big deal? The biggest, most powerful, one of the most successful open source projects in the world has two major, fundamental changes that change everything you thought you knew about it.
Well, not everything. Lots of the things that people love about Drupal are getting some nice improvements:
🕑Oct 11, 2015 🖋John Locke
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Quality-oriented Drupal DevOps
Here are the slides from my 2015 Drupal Summit talk, Quality Drupal DevOps!
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🕑Jul 25, 2015 🖋John Locke
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Drupal on Docker, with a pinch of Salt
Faster, more secure, more maintainable. Three nice benefits we get from our new standard Drupal server architecture.
🕑Jun 16, 2015 🖋John Locke
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The case for git as a deployment tool
More and more I keep running into assertions that Git is a version control tool, and that if you use it for deployment, you're doing it wrong.
Why?
At Freelock we find it to be a very effective deployment tool, and I'm not seeing a solution that meets our needs any better.
Two presentations in particular caught my attention recently mentioned this:
🕑May 07, 2015 🖋John Locke
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Why Drupal is a great fit for startups
Another sales call today, with a prospective start-upper who thought Drupal might lower his costs to get a web startup launched.
🕑Apr 14, 2015 🖋Don Dill
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A hacked neglected site, Pantheon migration, and why you need a Drupal Site Assessment
We recently had a new client contact us and ask if we could move their sites over to Pantheon so they could do some in-house development work. Of course we can do that for you!
🕑Mar 23, 2015 🖋John Locke
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You get out what you put in
March 2015
... this statement applies to just about any endeavor you can imagine... I've mostly heard it associated with education, the idea that you can get a good education anywhere if you work diligently at it and learn what the teacher has to teach -- and likewise, you can often skate by in good schools without coming out the other end with much learned.
🕑Mar 06, 2015 🖋John Locke
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Ask Freelock: Build, embed, or integrate SaaS with Drupal?
Mike, looking for information about integrating a data collection Software as a Service (SaaS) offering, asked:
🕑Dec 04, 2014 🖋John Locke
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Drupal Dates off by timezone offset, after upgrading date module
Just a quick note of how we resolved an issue related to an upgrade to Date.