Just go buy already

In true SOTR fashion, we're a tad late on getting this information out to you.

First. The new website. Rather swanky if we do say so ourselves.

Second. We're holding 2010 at TigerTiger in London. It's not an excuse just to get drunk! Honestly. We've got a fantastic speaker lineup, including:

• Darth Vader
• Chewbacca
• Indiana Jones
• The Terminator
• Marty McFly
• and more

Also, with the recession still being a thorn in everyone's side, we hope we've managed to price things in such a way that it's affordable to everyone.

• Super Early Mega Cheap Ass Ticket: £50
• Super Early Very Cheap Ass Ticket: £75
• Not So Early Fairly Cheap Ass Ticket: £100
• Not So Early Cheap Ass Ticket: £125
• Full Ass Price Ticket: £165

Prices exclude VAT at 17.5%

We've got a lot more to announce so grab some popcorn, a bucket of juice, and stay tuned.

London

SOTR 2010 will take place May 24 and 25.

OK I admit it ... we've been way to quiet on what's happening with SOTR2010. One of the reasons is we've simply been too busy with project work. I guess that's the battle of being a consultancy who happen to also "organise" a conference.

Also, because of the European tour in October we kinda feel like we've just finished with the conference so we wanted a break.

Anyway, we have some things for 2010 provisionally booked and I thought I'd let a few unconfirmed details slip out.

• SOTR2010 will NOT be a tour.
• SOTR2010 will not take place in Amsterdam as had previously been hinted at.
• SOTR2010 will be a two day conference, with two tracks per day.
• SOTR2010 will be less than £200;+VAT.
• You may bump into Darth Vader, Indiana Jones, Batman and others at SOTR2010.

More info to follow.

We've just posted the schedule for all dates, so head over to the sessions page to see what's what.

We have a couple of new speakers and sponsors for SOTR Europe.

Speaker wise, we have have Grant Straker (Straker Software) and Robert Rosen (Tesi). We'll be releasing details of their sessions later today.

Grant will be speaking in week two at Amsterdam, Brussels and London.

Robert will be speaking in Milan and giving shorter sessions in Zurich (30 mins) and Brussels (15 mins).

Straker Software will also be sponsoring the second week of the tour, and Tesi will be sponsoring the 3 events Robert is speaking at; Zurich, Milan and Brussels.

A huge thanks to both companies for getting involved.

First up we have some speaker changes. We'd like to welcome Intergral's Darren Pywell who will be presenting in Munich, and our very own Matt Gifford who will now be presenting in Brussels and London.

Andy Allan will now be presenting on Document Driven Applications in Milan, replacing Claude Englebert's ColdFusion 9 Administration session. Claude unfortunately won't be with us in Milan.

For sponsorship, we'd like to welcome on board Intergral, who have always been a great supporter of the SOTR events.

We're also welcoming on board for the first time ever, .net magazine, who are one of the world's largest print based Web Design/Development magazines.

We have a few more announcements to make before next week in regards some additional sessions and sponsors. We'll get these finalised and then we'll make the final schedule available to one and all.

Intergral's Darrn Pywell will be presenting on "CSI: Who Killed ColdFusion?" at the Munich leg of Scotch on the Road.

Join the CSI:ColdFusion Server Investigation, as we unravel the mystery and hunt down the ColdFusion 'serial killer' who's terrorizing CF Servers across Europe. Current suspects include Code, Server, Web and Database. Learn how to troubleshoot servers from real world examples using Intergral's upcoming ColdFusion analytics tool, FusionAnalytics.

Zurich is the latest event on the tour to sell out, joining both Amsterdam and London.

We've started a standby list for Zurich, and based on demand we may increase the ticket allocation.

Thanks again to everyone for helping SOTR Europe be a huge success.