Fixing problems when you see them and cleaning code as you go might cause you delays in the moment but can pay you back many times over in the future.

Software design patterns are an important part of every Software Engineers toolkit. This article is a short discussion of what it is, why it's important and where to find out more.

When a site developer exports a feature to code, all the values stored against that feature on the site they export from are saved into code. It may be necessary to customise one or two of those variables for a particular environment later. If the export uses ctools then there is a hook that can alter an exportable as it's being imported.

The purpose of this walkthrough is to achieve a link with a tokenised taxonomy URL. This is sometimes required if you have a content type with a taxonomy field of Author or Issue and you want to link to a taxonomy page or view using taxonomy values as contextual filters. Or for instance you want to theme a taxonomy field output on a node page and you are using the taxonomy value as part of a custom URL.