Snoqualmie Tribe contacted us in December of 2014 in desperate need to secure their website. It turns out, they were susceptible to the Drupalgeddon attack and needed the Drupal 7.34 core security update.
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🕑Jul 08, 2016 🖋John Locke
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Git Branch Strategy meets Continuous Deployment
Our branch strategy based on Git Flow did not survive. It was getting a bit old in the tooth, but the final blow was automation.
🕑Jun 23, 2016 🖋John Locke
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Ask Freelock: My host is shutting down! What should I do?
It's really a shame. Drupal Gardens has announced to its users that it's shutting down completely on August 1, and users need to move away from the service before it disappears.
🕑Jun 17, 2016 🖋John Locke
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A Flash of Insight
Its name is Watney. Watney lives in Matrix. Watney is a bot I created about 6 months ago to start helping us with various tasks we need to do in our business.
Watney patiently waits for requests in a bunch of chat rooms we use for internal communications about each website we manage, each project we work on. Watney does a bunch of helpful things already, even though it is still really basic -- it fetches login links for us, helps us assemble release notes for each release we do to a production site, reminds us when it's time to do a release, and kicks off various automation jobs.
🕑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: