There are times when the connection to your Drupal database will need to be via ssl, such as when using an external DB service like clearDB. How do you accomplish this with regards to the settings.php file?

Recently, I had the need to format a single content type differently depending on where it was presented

To be, or not to be, that is the question. Shakespeare never quite gets around to answering it, though. In Drupal 7, a similar existential question arises regarding entity references: Is it, or is it empty?