TDAC http://tucsondigitalarts.com Tucson Digital Arts Community Mon, 09 Jan 2012 22:45:06 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Blended Learning Courses http://tucsondigitalarts.com/2010/blended-learning-courses/ http://tucsondigitalarts.com/2010/blended-learning-courses/#comments Thu, 11 Nov 2010 19:23:17 +0000 TDAC http://tucsondigitalarts.com/?p=721
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]]> http://tucsondigitalarts.com/2010/blended-learning-courses/feed/ 0 October Startup Drinks – Demo Night! http://tucsondigitalarts.com/2010/october-startup-drinks-demo-night/ http://tucsondigitalarts.com/2010/october-startup-drinks-demo-night/#comments Thu, 21 Oct 2010 19:36:12 +0000 TDAC http://tucsondigitalarts.com/?p=678 Continue reading →]]> Join us for Startup Drinks, Demo Night!

When: Tuesday, October 26th from 7-9pm
Where: Spoke6, 439 N 6th Ave, Tucson, AZ 85705
Cost: Please bring a drink to enjoy and another to share.

Here are our confirmed demos for the October 2010 version of Startup Drinks:

  • The Human Mosaic Project (Warner)
  • Garious (Aaron Eden)
  • Good Call Football (Theo/William)
  • Universal Clipboard (JMatt)
]]> http://tucsondigitalarts.com/2010/october-startup-drinks-demo-night/feed/ 0 WordPress Meetup September 2010 http://tucsondigitalarts.com/2010/wordpress-meetup-september-2010/ http://tucsondigitalarts.com/2010/wordpress-meetup-september-2010/#comments Thu, 23 Sep 2010 22:49:28 +0000 TDAC http://tucsondigitalarts.com/?p=654 Continue reading →]]> Join us for an evening of WordPress. We’ll cover the latest in WordPress news, share how we are using WordPress, and possibly have several 10-minute presentations to be determined.

  • Where: Spoke6, 439 N 6th Ave, Tucson, AZ 85705 (located on the SW corner of 6th Ave & 6th St)
  • When: Thursday, September 30th from 7–9 PM
  • Cost: Please bring a snack or drink to share

Notes:

Here are links to the WordPress news I discussed.

Upcoming WordCamps
WordCamp Las Vegas, Oct 23
http://lasvegaswordcamp.com/

WordCamp Phoenix: Jan 26-30, 2011
http://phxwordcamp.com/

WordPress Foundation takes over WP trademark
http://wordpress.org/news/2010/09/trademark-to-wpf/
http://ma.tt/2010/09/wordpress-trademark/

Updates to iOs apps
http://ios.wordpress.org/2010/09/29/introducing-version-2-6/

Windows Live Spaces shutting down, moving users to WordPress.com
http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2010/09/27/welcome-windows-live-spaces-bloggers/

VaultPress
http://vaultpress.com

Plinky
http://www.plinky.com/

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Come to Tucson Startup Drinks to talk about all things entrepreneurship, trade information, the latest book you’ve been reading or just to take in the vibe. Time to kick off end of summer (and back to school for some of us)!

7 pm at Spoke6 6th St & 6th Ave. – parking available in lot south of 6th St.

Please bring a drink or snack to enjoy and share (doesn’t have to be alcohol).

]]> http://tucsondigitalarts.com/2010/august-startup-drinks/feed/ 0 WordPress Meetup August 2010 http://tucsondigitalarts.com/2010/wordpress-meetup-august-2010/ http://tucsondigitalarts.com/2010/wordpress-meetup-august-2010/#comments Mon, 09 Aug 2010 18:05:55 +0000 TDAC http://tucsondigitalarts.com/?p=627 Continue reading →]]> Join us for an evening of WordPress. We’ll cover the latest in WordPress news, share how we are using WordPress, and have several 10-minute presentations covering topics such as:

- Latest WordPress News
- WordPress community and 100 Stands (Sam Devore)
- Custom Post Types & TDAC Job Board (Tim Bowen)

  • Where: Spoke6, 439 N 6th Ave, Tucson, AZ 85705 (located on the SW corner of 6th Ave & 6th St)
  • When: Thursday, August 19th from 7–9 PM
  • Cost: Please bring a snack or drink to share

This is an open event. Everyone is welcome.

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Tim Bowen and Read Whittier will be presenting different E-Commerce systems and going over features.

The following systems will be covered:

  • Magento
  • Shopp (WordPress plugin)
  • WP E-Commerce (WordPress plugin) ?
  • Shopify ?
  • CS-Cart ?

Please offer any other systems you’d like to see covered by leaving a comment.

]]> http://tucsondigitalarts.com/2010/e-commerce-throw-down/feed/ 1 Barebones CMS Presentation http://tucsondigitalarts.com/2010/barebones-cms-presentation/ http://tucsondigitalarts.com/2010/barebones-cms-presentation/#comments Wed, 23 Jun 2010 17:10:56 +0000 TDAC http://tucsondigitalarts.com/?p=580 Continue reading →]]> Learn about Barebones CMS – a high-performance, minimalist content management system.  The author, Thomas Hruska, will give a short presentation and demonstration of this open source product.

Time permitting, Q&A and installation help will be offered afterward.

When: July 15th from 7 to 9pm
Where: Spoke6, 439 N 6th Ave., Tucson, AZ 85705 (SW Corner of 6th and 6th)

This event is free, however please bring a drink or snack to share.

]]> http://tucsondigitalarts.com/2010/barebones-cms-presentation/feed/ 3 Rapid WordPress Theme Development http://tucsondigitalarts.com/2010/rapid-wordpress-theme-development/ http://tucsondigitalarts.com/2010/rapid-wordpress-theme-development/#comments Wed, 23 Jun 2010 16:11:23 +0000 TDAC http://tucsondigitalarts.com/?p=585 Here are the slides from the presentation I gave about rapid WordPress development at Spoke6 on June 22, 2010.

[slideshare id=4588973&doc=rapid-wordpress-theme-development-100623124407-phpapp01]

]]> http://tucsondigitalarts.com/2010/rapid-wordpress-theme-development/feed/ 1 June Start-up Drinks http://tucsondigitalarts.com/2010/june-start-up-drinks/ http://tucsondigitalarts.com/2010/june-start-up-drinks/#comments Tue, 22 Jun 2010 21:24:12 +0000 TDAC http://tucsondigitalarts.com/?p=573 Continue reading →]]> Demo Night!
Currently we have two demos of projects in the works. If you have something you’re working on bring it down to present to the group. Other than that we’ll be discussing startups, funding, and, of course, beer (or wine).

Where: Spoke6, 439 N 6th Ave, Tucson, AZ 85705 (SW Corner of 6th and 6th)
When: June 29th from 7-9pm.

BYOB/Snack and come on down

]]> http://tucsondigitalarts.com/2010/june-start-up-drinks/feed/ 1 WordPress Meetup June 2010 http://tucsondigitalarts.com/2010/wordpress-meetup-june-2010/ http://tucsondigitalarts.com/2010/wordpress-meetup-june-2010/#comments Thu, 27 May 2010 16:58:44 +0000 TDAC http://tucsondigitalarts.com/?p=565 Continue reading →]]> Join us for an evening of WordPress. We’ll cover the latest in WordPress news, share how we are using WordPress, and possibly have several 10-minute presentations.

  • Where: Spoke6, 439 N 6th Ave, Tucson, AZ 85705 (located on the SW corner of 6th Ave & 6th St)
  • When: Tuesday, June 22nd 7–9 PM
  • Cost: Please bring a snack or drink to share

This is an open event. Everyone is welcome.

Presentations scheduled:

  1. Intro: Latest WordPress news (Lance)
    - 3.0 launched last week! Whoo-hoo! Read all the details and watch a video overview, then go update your WordPress sites.
  2. Rapid development (Josh)
  3. WordPress community and 100 Stands (Sam DeVore) Canceled
  4. Ian: Integrating development frameworks and custom applications with WordPress: pros and cons
  5. Child themes (Lance)
    - Codex page: http://codex.wordpress.org/Child_Themes

Ideas for presentations in July and August:

  1. How to develop a theme: A-Z, learning all the files (based on ThemeShaper tutorial)
  2. Writing with WordPress: Britt
  3. Plugin development basics
  4. Common tasks and how to solve them: calendars and events, migration of old sites to the latest WordPress version
  5. Commercialization of WP (plugins, developers, bloggers…)
  6. Top 10 things you should know about WordPress
  7. Compare photo gallery themes/plugins
  8. Search Engine Optimization
  9. Best practices in development and design
  10. BuddyPress review of capabilities

If you’d like to present a topic related to WordPress, drop Lance an email: lance at simpledream dot net.

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