For hours I've been banging my head against a wall trying to figure out why Drupal's date_make_date "wasn't working." I was always getting back an empty PHP DateTime object. I traced it back down to PHP's date_create. I suspected that there was no reflection capabilities, but searching against date_create really didn't yield me much.

Eventually I decided "let's just search up a level (date_make_date empty object)" and in seconds I came across this thread: http://drupal.org/node/514560. This is just proof to me that the Drupal community is super awesome.

While debugging a client's site this weekend, I came across a rather dumbfounding issue. The site would look great in Firefox, but not in IE. In fact, IE seemingly ignored any CSS statements I would add to layout.css (part of a Zen-based custom theme).

If we look at the page source, Zen likes to add on a considerable number of CSS files along with several contributed modules -- over 40 CSS files total!