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March 24: WordPress Wow Night

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Join LAdobe on Thursday night, March 24 at 7pm at Border Stylo at 729 Seward St. in Hollywood. Parking is available on the street for free after 6pm and the agency also has a private lot they may open for members to park as well. Remember, all LAdobe events and meetings are always free to attend with no RSVP required.

img wordpress March 24: WordPress Wow NightFor this meeting, it’s all about WordPress. What was once simply blogging software has matured into an amazing Content Management System used by major corporations around the globe. Including our own LAdobe site as well as the LAFlash site. All powered by WordPress.

For this meeting, our LAdobe User Group Manager, Adam Bell of dataTV, will present a number of projects he’s created in WordPress over the years and show how to theme your WordPress site starting with the base TwentyTen theme and turning it completely upside down to look nothing like the original theme at all. He’ll show up the new menu system, how to easily edit the code and make it simple even for non-programmers. He’ll also show some of the must-have plugins to use in WordPress.

scott clark March 24: WordPress Wow NightSpeaking of plugins, we’re pleased to offer a live presentation by the creator of one of the most innovative plugins for WordPress, Pods CMS by Scott Kingsley Clark. Scott will be joining us from his home in Dallas to show how Pods works and how you can create all sorts of custom content fields to make it easier for your clients to insert data without ever knowing it.

68 lamedia03 March 24: WordPress Wow NightA perfect example of this is set by local developer, Thom Meredith who created a media kit presentation in WordPress for the Los Angeles Times. This presentation uses Pods as well as other plugins, to tie in data for a unique sales presentation for potential advertisers. Thom will explain how he put this all together and how you can do the same for some of your projects.

The evening will feature free drinks courtesy of Function as well as Groundwork Coffee courtesy of Border Stylo. We also plan to give away Alien Skin plugins and a variety of WordPress books from Wiley and O’Reilly. If you’re a current WordPress developer who still can’t get past the blog, you need to come out to this event on Match 24 in Hollywood.

Photoshop Idol is back! Win CS5 for coming up with the new MiniMAX brand!

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logo Photoshop Idol is back! Win CS5 for coming up with the new MiniMAX brand!Yes, it’s that time of year again. As LAdobe prepares to turn five, we’re ready to deliver our annual Photoshop Idol competition to find the next great design superstar in Los Angeles and Southern California! Once again, we’re offering an amazing prize package to the winner including a copy of one of the bundles of Creative Suite 5, 6 O’Reilly e-books, an Alien Skin Plugin and many more prizes worth at least $2,500.

But as usual, you have to earn it.

And this year, we’re raising the stakes even higher.

That’s because we need your help in coming up with the new name for MiniMAX, our annual free event for the locals surrounding the annual Adobe MAX conference. We can’t use the MiniMAX name anymore, so we’re looking for a new and exciting image that will get people interested and excited about the annual event. So you’ll come up with a new identity including a new name as well as a new logo like last year when Olia Vradly who won for her design of the MiniMAX X logo.

The rules are simple. You can come up with any name you want, provided it doesn’t use the words ‘MAX’, ‘Adobe’ or any of the Adobe product identities. So no Flash or Photoshop for example. Also, this event has been held in many cities including Las Vegas, New Orleans, Toronto and we plan to do this in more cities in the future. So we don’t recommend using Los Angeles or Southern California in the identity either. You could use something LA-related in the logo though since we will be holding what would’ve been MiniMAX XI in Los Angeles on October 2 right before the Adobe MAX conference at the Los Angeles Convention Center. The logo can be anything from a pencil sketch to a final comp in Illustrator or Photoshop. You don’t have to use any Adobe products if you don’t want to.

We’ll be accepting entries between now and May 1. At which point a panel of judges will determine the final three competitors and they will shoot it out in the live finals on Thursday, May 26 at the offices of Border Stylo in Hollywood. All entrants must be living in Los Angeles, Orange or San Bernardino counties to participate in this year’s Idol. Winner also must be able to present their identity package live to our audience on Thursday, May 26 in Hollywood.

Entering is simple. Just send your logos in an email to admin@laadug.org between now and May 1. You can enter as many logos as you want so please come up with as many intriguing and exciting ideas and concepts as possible. We look forward to seeing them all! Good luck to all and we look forward to your excellent creations.

ColdFusion Training Galore in Ontario

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679583653 ColdFusion Training Galore in OntarioOur friends at the Inland Empire ColdFusion User Group are presenting a comprehensive three-day course on ColdFusion and ColdBox technologies from March 14-18 at the Hyatt Place Ontario Mills in Ontario, CA. Core ColdBox from March 14-16 and Core ColdBox Modules from March 17-18. That’s right. St. Patrick’s Week. So come to these session and maybe with some ‘luck’ you’ll score some ‘green’ from your next ColdFusion gig! Register here by following this link –>

February 23: RIM/Blackberry Playbook live in Venice

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Join LAdobe in conjunction with LAFlash and LA Flex on Wednesday night, Febraury 23rd at 7pm at the offices of AlmerBlank at 525 Venezia Avenue. in Venice. Parking is available on the street for free around the office complex.

For this special event we will look into the use of Flash and Flex in the creation of apps for the upcoming Blackberry Playbook, Our presenter will be Paul Bernhardt from RIM covering the following points in a one hour presentation. Afterwards there will be some time dedicated to Q&A to answer all your questions regarding the PlayBook. RIM may also talk about their announcement from the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona this week.

Further information: Webinar Slide Deck: http://bit.ly/augs-rim2011-slidedeck

Creative Suite Survey to win Lynda.com passes

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Adobe’s Creative Suite Marketing team has created a new short and simple survey to find out which version of Adobe’s Creative Suite you currently own and use. It takes just a few seconds and you could win passes to lynda.com for taking thus survey. Here’s the link to the Creative Suite survey and good luck and let us know if you win.