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12/12/2009 Cleveland Area Adobe User Groups Annual Holiday Social
<p>I have some unfortunate news for this year's Holiday Social. Due to unforeseen circumstances we are unable to have our Annual Holiday Social at the Winking Lizard in Independence this year. I don't want to go into specifics, but I do want to apologize for those of you who enjoyed the event in previous years.</p>
<p>HOWEVER, the managers and co-managers of the Cleveland area Adobe User Groups have been working very hard to carry on the tradition of the Holiday Social despite the set back with the loss of the Winking
Lizard this year. It is with great joy that I can announce to you that the Holiday Social will go on this year! However, things will be a bit different this year.<p>
<p>Dan Vega, our CFUG co-manager, is throwing a party to help out local area children, and he has graciously allowed the Cleveland Area Adobe User Groups access to this event. So, this year, we will join Dan Vega for the 2nd Annual Toys for Shots event. The name Toys for Shots is a cross between Toys for Tots and alcohol shots.</p>
<p>If you would like to attend the Holiday Social this year, we ask that you join us for Toys for Shots. If you bring 1 toy as a donation to Toys for Tots, you will receive TWO drink tickets that you can use. We
thought we would put out a nice little incentive for all attendees to bring a toy. I hope you can come out and join us for an event that is going to be a lot of fun and also helps out a great cause!</p>
<p>We realize that the event is only TWO days away, Saturday, December 12, 2009, at 8:00 p.m., but we are hoping that many of you will be able to make it and help out this great cause.</p>
<p>As a reminder, everyone from the user group who attends Toys for Shots will be entered in a drawing for a chance to win free software from Adobe in our semi-annual software raffle.</p>
<p>Event Details:<br />
Who: Anyone interested in having fun and helping out a good cause<br />
What: Toys for Shots: A Toys for Tots Fundraiser Christmas Party<br />
Where: McCarthy's Downtown<br />
When: Saturday, December 12, 2009, 8:00 p.m. - 2:30 a.m.<br />
For more information: www.toysforshots.com</p>
<p>McCarthy's Downtown<br />
1231 Main Avenue<br />
Cleveland, OH 44113<br />
Phone: 216.344.9099</p>
<p>RSVP: We ask that everyone who wishes to attend please RSVP for the event at www.toysforshots.com/rsvp so Dan Vega and the other organizers have an accurate count of who will be in attendance.</p>
11/18/2009 Photoshop Actions and Batch Processing
The Cleveland Adobe User Group will be having it's November meeting on November 18, 2009, at 6:00 p.m. at Dealer Tire, LLC located at 3711 Chester Ave, Cleveland, OH. Mike Cooper will be discussing actions in Photoshop and creating batch processes to quickly edit multiple photos. Mike will demonstrate the steps necessary to create and save custom actions and then show how to use those actions in a batch process to quickly edit photos for placement on a web page or photo gallery. This meeting is free to the public. We only ask that you reserve your seat so we have an accurate head count for Dealer Tire. If you have any questions, please contact the Cleveland AUG at clevelandaug@gmail.org.
10/21/2009 CSS Layout Magic in Dreamweaver CS4
The Cleveland Adobe User Group will conduct a presentation on using Cascading Style Sheets to create standards-compliant layouts using Dreamweaver CS4. Mike Cooper, manager of the Cleveland Adobe User Group, will present on styling layouts with CSS. The presentation will include some shortcuts to creating layouts using CSS and will include some tips and tricks that he has learned over the years.
Mike has been a web developer for over 10 years and has been using CSS layouts for the last 5 years. Mike is currently the CEO of Cooper Internet Consulting, LLC where he specializes in creating designs in CSS that are standards-compliant. Mike has worked with Fortune 500 companies creating their websites and has learned many tricks along the way. He will share his knowledge with the group.
The meeting is scheduled for Wednesday, October 21, 2009, at 6:00 p.m. at the Cleveland offices of Lodestone Digital, LLC, located at 4500 Rockside Road, Suite 150, Independence, OH 44131.
Everyone is invited out to the Winking Lizard in Independence, OH after the event for a social and networking event.
09/30/2009 JavaScript Framework Widgets
Come join the Cleveland Adobe User Group as we discuss JavaScript Frameworks on Wednesday, September 30, 2009, at 6:00 PM at Lodestone Digital, LLC, located at 4500 Rockside Road, Suite 150, Independence, OH 44131.
Mike Cooper, the Cleveland AUG manager, will present on adding JavaScript widgets to a web page directly from within Dreamweaver. Mike will demonstrate the widgets that come with installed with Dreamweaver CS4 from the SPRY Framework from Adobe. He will then show how to add widgets to Dreamweaver CS4 from the YUI Library and the jQuery Library.
Once Mike shows you how easy it can be to insert a widget into a web page, and demonstrates how they function, Andrew Maurer, the Cleveland AUG co-manager, will demonstrate a web application built using YUI3 Library of widgets and how easy it can be to create great AJAX applications with very little work or knowledge of JavaScript.
This topic will be an introductory topic into JavaScript Framework Widgets. We will cover just the basics. If you are interested in learning about how to use JavaScript in your web development, this is a great meeting for you to attend.
After the meeting, we will head out to the Winking Lizard in Independence for a social and networking event. All are invited to attend. Mike and Andrew will be there to offer more information about the user group, and to take suggestions for topics that you would like to have presented to the user group.
08/27/2009 Actionscript 3- Preloading Applications and Asset
Andrew will be discussing how and where to use preloaders to load in applications and assets. He will also touch on the events that occur during the loading process which includes how to catch when things go wrong. Examples will be shown in both Flash Authoring Tool and Flex Builder. In Flex Andrew will show how to override the default application preloader as well as tips to speed up loading times.