Scotch on the Rocks Blog - General

Scotch on the Rocks 2011

Mon, 26 Apr 2010 17:03:00-0000

Heavens above. 2010 hasn't even been and gone and already we've started on 2011. We're looking for feedback right now on the 2011 conference, with the big question being; "Where?". If you can take 10 minutes to fill out the survey that would be awesome: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/8629T8T

SOTR2010 Award Nominations

Fri, 16 Apr 2010 11:55:00-0000

A reminder to all about the SOTR 2010 Reachie Awards. The awards are open to all to nominate their favourite entries for all EMEA ColdFusion developers (Europe, Middle East and Africa). We have a huge amount of talent in the EMEA region, and we wanted to recognise that fact with the first official Reachie Awards. The categories are as follows:

Best ColdFusion blog
Best ColdFusion developer to follow on social media
Best ColdFusion site
Best open-source ColdFusion application
Best all-round ColdFusion community member

Make sure you don't miss out and vote today! The results will be announced live at SOTR2010 during the event. Vote in the Reachie Awards now

Reachie Awards & Promo Videos

Tue, 16 Mar 2010 16:33:00-0000

A few new items to highlight regarding the uber-event that is Scotch on the Rocks 2010 - The Movie.

Award Nominations

This year at SOTR we want to honour, showcase and acknowledge the talent within the European ColdFusion community. Welcome to 'The Reachies' 'The Reachie' awards consists of five categories, the winners of which will be revealed on Tuesday 25th May, the final day of SOTR2010. As it's a community-focussed event, who better to nominate the entrants than the community themselves. The five categories and the accompanying prizes are:

Best ColdFusion blog: 16GB iPod Nano
Best ColdFusion developer to follow on social media: Nintendo DSi
Best ColdFusion site: Flip Ultra II Camera
Best open-source ColdFusion application: ColdFusion Builder
Best all-round ColdFusion community member: Flash Builder 4 Professional

The awards are now open, so please make sure you head over to the awards page and submit your nominations for the categories. Entries will close on Monday 24th May 2010.

Promo video

We have released the first of our SOTR 2010 promotional videos, which you can enjoy in the form of moving pictures here: Feel free to post it, blog it, love it and pass it around like a cheap bottle of cider.

John Whish: Thanks!

Wed, 10 Jun 2009 20:03:00-0000

A big thanks to John Whish, one of our Guitar Hero winners, who kindly donated his prize of Guitar Hero: Legends of Rock to be given away at SOTR:London.

Thanks John!

Twitter Hash Tag + Pre Event Drinks

Fri, 29 May 2009 11:00:00-0000

For all you twitter heads out there the hash tag for Next Weeks Tour is #SotR09 We'll also be having pre event drinks the night before each event starting at 7pm: Sunday 31st May - London : O'Neill's Wardour Street
Tuesday 2nd June - Manchester : Tiger Tiger Manchester
Thursday 4th June - Edinburgh : Nicol Edwards

FusionAnalytics: Seeing is Believing

Wed, 29 Apr 2009 18:58:00-0000

Intergral are well know for their fantastic FusionDebug and FusionReactor products, and for some time now they've been teasing us with the promise of a new addition to the Fusion product family; FusionAnalytics.

FusionAnalytics allows us to interpret and analyze log information, pulling data together into an organised and consolidated time series, giving us a unique perspective into what our applications are doing. No longer will we have to manually trawl through files trying to figure out what's went wrong, why things are slow, or to help us identify hot spots and trends and to plan capacity based on what is reported.

Here's a few snapshots showing the FusionAnalytics in action.

FusionAnalytics has reaped a huge amount of praise already, and that's even before it's been released in Alpha. Ray Camden even blogged that FusionAnalytics was the coolest thing at CFUnited 2008.

Well, here we are in 2009, and at Scotch on the Road: London, we're going to have Intergral's David Stockton not just talk about the product, but also demo the product.

The Fusion products are the essentials tools for all CFML development and monitoring, and Analytics is going to take things forward in such a way that it will blow your mind.

Scotch on the Road: Manchester?

Mon, 26 Jan 2009 22:18:00-0000

We're considering a stop in Manchester as part of the Scotch on the Road tour and we're trying to gauge interest.

If Manchester would be a good location for you, let us know by leaving a comment. Ideally we need 50 people.