Every project has to kick off somewhere.  Yep well that's a no brainer.  However, the number of projects that I've seen where the planning step has been omitted is too high.  A throughly planned out project with as many features scoped before you start coding is critical in completing a project.  Whilst projects and their requirements are always fluid, the initial critical scoping is so important. Fail to plan, planning to fail There is no one way to plan.  Yes I've seen...

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...