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Announcing Shave Module for Drupal: Truncate Text to Fit an HTML Element

Ever needed to trim text to fit the height of an area? Shave Module for Drupal helps you do this intelligently by allowing you to truncate text to fit within an html element. Instead of merely tweaking the trim of characters output, set the max-height and Shave library will truncate or “shave” your text accordingly.

Using Rules to Periodically Change a Your Drupal Site Configuration and Variables

Wouldn’t it be cool if you could use Rules to periodically set, change or modify certain Drupal site configurations and variables?

Yeah, it would be cool and nowit is totally do-able with "Rules Set Site Variables”

Below is my use case and a simple recipe on how to use Rules (and a few helper modules) to change site configurations periodically. I imagine you can use it for all kinds of other craziness on your Drupal site.

Node.js Rules Chatterbox: Customizable Realtime Messages on a Drupal site

This is a the module I wish I had when I started to integrate node.js with Drupal.

In its essence, Node.js Rules Chatterbox is a simple way to make your site spit out real-time messages to your site users.

Whether it's a warning message to admin or notification to certain members, it provides a simple way to customize display messages using Rules. For a site builder, it gives you the real-time notifications power of node.js with the ease of creating customized events and reactions via Drupal Rules UI.

Building Mobile Apps for Drupal Conference Sites

I'm excited to announce that we've built our first Drupal-powered apps for iOS and Android. The apps are in the Android and Apple marketplace and are helped to improve one association's yearly technical conference.

More Flexibility for Flags: Using Flag Limiter to create simple registration and signup

Flag limiter allows you to put limits on any flag in your Drupal site.

Like Views or Rules modules, flag module is one of my favorite, general purpose Drupal modules. Flag module let’s you create a customizable system of “flags” for things like bookmarks, important content, friends, flag as offensive or whatever. With great Views and Rules integration, it’s a powerful combination for site builders.

Event Registration Site with Panopoly, Drupal Commerce Registration and Stripe: A Drupal, Awesome-sause Mashup.

15 paid orders per minute = 150 orders in the first 10 minutes.

On Saturday, March 9, 2013, we opened up online registration. In the lead-up to the event, there was a lot of online excitement and build up leading up to registration. The past events (in 2011 and 2012) had all gone extremely well but there been some difficulties with the online registration process.

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