Problem

what just happened? some scary bad invisible character(s) got in the css file

I think by using Digital Color Meter

And caused all the CSS rules after that character not to work!

Resolution

I'm blaming user module even though I know intimately that I shouldn't: a 2 hour estimate to add user picture upload to the client's custom registration form has become a journey through HTML form and PHP file handling hell because even Drupal core doesn't let you upload a user picture when uploading. Finally just put it on the second page of the client's two screen login process.

Wrote a module almost just like http://drupal.org/project/reg_with_pic

Another contractor on a project with us, and one way or another there came to be this issue with files modified locally on the live server— to which, in our own practice, we only ever update, so there can never be conflicts.

<?php
/**
 * Prepare user input for use in a database query, preventing SQL injection attacks.
 */
function db_escape_string($text) {
  global $active_db;
  if (is_array($text)) {  // three lines added for testing
    drupal_set_message('<pre>'. var_export(debug_backtrace(),TRUE) .'</pre>');
  }
  return mysql_real_escape_string($text, $active_db);
}

now i'm engaged in my annual search for a good tabbed text editor
actually i just gave up

km:
hahahaha
I'm somewhat pleased with gedit

benjamin melançon:
another reason to switch to linux

km:
:-)

yeah if you think about it, programmers need to build these things, and programmers use Linux

benjamin melançon:
... or just use darwinports for now

http://gedit.darwinports.com/

ben@server:~$ sudo /srv/scripts/agaric-newproject.sh 6 testing testing.com testing.org

svn: MKCOL of '/srv/svn/agaric/!svn/wrk/63dfc22d-3df4-47e9-8306-5e7dbcfefd62/agaric-sites/testing/apache': 405 Method Not Allowed (https://example.com)

Resolution

"THIS CARD CANNOT BE USED"

I cursed the card that I picked up cheap at instead of my camera

apologies to Taiwan... the 4GB SD card (Secure Digital High Capacity Memory Card) from Taiwan, and more recently Abacus 24-7 didn't work 'cause the Nikon D50 only accepts up to 2GB. Blast.

Note to everyone: don't take a new 4 or 8 GB SD card with your Nikon D50 camera up a gorgeous mountain and expect to be able to take pictures.

Now to get a card reader and use the card as a 4 gigabyte USB thumb drive.

Resolution

IE6 has extremely weird PNG issues

Microsoft owes me another 4 hours of my life.

Just to let you know, apparently PNGs (without transparency, nothing to do with transparency on the page anywhere I was aware of, though there was a video and lots of other stuff), can simply fail to show up in the image tag. A completely normal img src style tag just doesn't display.

Using jpeg instead fixed it.

This right here? Really, really lame.

Warning: fopen(./sites/default/default.settings.php) [function.fopen]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /sites/example/www/includes/install.inc on line 187

Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /sites/example/www/includes/install.inc:187) in /sites/example/www/includes/install.inc on line 617

Also do you know about this error?

User warning: Got a packet bigger than 'max_allowed_packet' bytes query: UPDATE cache_form SET data = 'a:56:{

I haven't seen it on example.com, I've seen it on other sites. I started one of the longest issues in the drupal issue queue from that error! http://drupal.org/node/121390

But as neither CCK nor Views are in use with the present example.com demo site, that must be something different!