On a git pull from remote dev environment to a staging environment running off AWS server... I was greeted with the white screen of death.  While it took me a while to resolve the actual issue, my action plan was as follows:   How to resolve: Look in your log files; Add a few lines to your index.php file   Log files If you have access via ssh they are usually located in /var/log.  To quickly which files have been updated / altered recently, run the following command when...

A bug bear that I have had for a while with Drupal content is how come the author of an article is actually their username.  I have an array of reasons to vent my dislike for this strategy... however, instead I will show you how to change it.  Albeit, programmatically!  Don't stress there actually isn't a huge amount of code to add.  In time I'll create a module so no coding is required.   Setting up account fields in the admin area To begin let's add new fields for...