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.
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Progressive Enhancements with VueJS and Drupal
In April I gave a talk about Progressive Enhancements at the national DrupalCon 2022 conference in Portland. Here's a recording of the full session, which was targeted towards Drupal developers.
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).
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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.
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Aggregate fields in Drupal 8 views
Views module has long been the killer feature of Drupal, making it easy for a site builder or skilled administrator to essentially create complex SQL queries through a web interface, without knowing SQL.
Technical Debt and CMS maintenance
As we onboard a slew of new clients due to our joining
News: FuseIQ and Freelock joining forces!
Seattle, Washington, March 31, 2020. For immediate release.
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.
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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.
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.
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”?
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