This is the code you put in your template when overriding submitted by text, there is also a module that helps do some of this things http://drupal.org/project/submitted_by
also take a note that when you want to translate you need to use setting.php technique.

I just encontured stupid problem with IE and listing LI tags in one a row, If you want to list them properly and not skip into second you need to add some
white-space: no-wrap; to work to LI or in fact A tag inside LI. Those having that problem will know what I am talking about.

If you have some variable in your node object or somewhere else like [created] = 1328281634 then you need to convert this to date format you like, so you can do it
with line like this, where you choose custom date format

format_date($timestamp, 'custom', 'D, j M, Y \a\\t G:i' );

or use some predefined date format on your site like

Sometimes when theming on some level you need to output some image through imagecache, so here is how to do it. Usually in some function in template.php you will write this

I almost always use Fusion theme as my base theme, one thing its missing and developers of it seem not to care is a class that is in body and is different for node add and node edit pages, so I usually go to template.php and around line 64, after

Finally in IE9 MS started to support proper and useful CSS tags. But at this moment in time you still need to have support for IE7 and IE8. So If you want to make some nice box shadows, you are in a problem. Luckly this page comes to help http://css3pie.com/
works as it should, donate to those people, they made your life much easier :-)

You are looping through some arrays and you have some image variable, path of original image. You want to print out some variation of that image, this is what you do

You constructed a view and want to get view results and fine tune some usage of them by PHP this is how you get them

 $view = views_get_view_result('Name_of_View'); print_r($view);  

You will get classic array of values where you can choose which one you want to use and print out. You can also add name of display you want to use.

Every now and then i need to make some custom output of a block, either in some page.tpl.php file or in a drupal interface custom block, either way you can get it with module_invoke function

Before we learned how to print node variables now lets see how to get all variables that are present on page