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A note to people planning development projects 26 Aug 2013 | 11:48 pm
Software is expensive because it is irrational and difficult to build. More than 70 years of mostly-failed software projects evidence this fact. Face it, and your chances for success will dramatically...
What is the value of your web site? 20 Aug 2013 | 08:33 pm
Results. Return On Investment. Value. How do you measure these things in a website? There's one thing you can easily measure -- cost. Or at least the amount you actually spend to build and maintain a ...
Guiding Principles 16 Aug 2013 | 04:56 am
August 2013 What are the guiding principles you use to make decisions? Over the past few months, as the Freelock team has grown, I've been spending more time on strategy, while delegating more and mo...
Fate doesn't like to be tempted 9 Aug 2013 | 08:38 pm
Not 4 hours after posting my most recent blog stressing the importance of setting up systems with disaster recovery in mind, fate stepped up and thwacked me. "Oh yeah, think you're so resilient? How a...
Managing change and risk with Drupal Hosting 6 Aug 2013 | 12:46 am
If there's one thing that's constant in the web world, it's change. We've seen huge change over the years: personal pages, forums, RSS, blogs, YouTube, MySpace, Twitter, Facebook, Pinterest, spam, ubi...
Drupal and the Semantic Web - Introducing the Eagle-I Drupal module 30 Jul 2013 | 02:28 am
If you've used a web ontology before, or any other large-scale data repository, you're likely familiar with one of the chief concerns facing anyone in such a position: how do you get your data into th...
Making technology decisions in a sea of alternatives 10 Jul 2013 | 12:10 am
July 2013 If you learned how to make decisions before the fall of the Berlin Wall, you might get overwhelmed by decision making today. We used to live in a fairly black-and-white world -- East versus...
How to structure a Dojo-based dashboard in Drupal 28 Jun 2013 | 12:45 am
At Freelock we're in the midst of building dashboards for ourselves and for customers, to really dial in our process and let us know where to focus our improvements. Nothing beats having a visual repr...
Obvious and Worthless: the Patent System in software 18 Jun 2013 | 08:41 pm
A couple weeks ago NPR's Planet Money and This American Life had some really great episodes about the broken patent system. These are great stories for people who don't understand why patents are a pr...
I wanna change my website 14 Jun 2013 | 01:04 am
Before doing any changes to your web site, the first thing to figure out are your goals. As a web development shop, we focus on building web sites that create measurable value for our customers, align...
