It's Scotch. In Europe. It's Free. Go Register.

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The Future of Web Design comes to Glasgow for the day, and I'll be on AIR.

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Hollywood baby, yeah! I'm heading to LA to present at Adobe MAX on Document Driven Applications.

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ColdFusion & PDF: Improving your Workflow is my topic for CFunited 2009

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In this presentation, Railo's Mark Drew will show you how your applications can live in the cloud, work with the cloud and use the cloud to increase your performance both permanent as well as Just In time computing needs.

It will cover deploying your application to Amazon Elastic Computing Cloud (EC2), Stax as well as using Amazon's Simple Storage Service (S3).

If you haven't yet deployed to the cloud, aren't quite sure what the cloud is, or simply want to hear the subtle tones of Mark's voice, then get yourself in this session, which is London only.

For those attending Manchester or Edinburgh, Sean Corfield will be presenting on "Living in the Cloud".

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Placing an order, or receiving an order for some goods or services can be a long drawn out process involving: completing numerous forms, requiring multiple authorising signatures, providing different personnel with a copy of all the forms, waiting on finance to provide a Purchase Order number and so on. There's nothing good about this process.

With the release of ColdFusion 8, the ability to utilise PDFs in our applications surpassed the ability to simply make web pages printable.

In particular we can now work with PDF forms, and in this session, being presented at both London and Edinburgh, yours truly will show how we can integrate these into our applications and help streamline the workflow process.

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Adobe's Serge Jespers is going to show you how to create blazingly fast developer workflows, and make you a rock star in the process.

Using Flash Catalyst, Gumbo (Flex Builder 4) and ColdFusion (Bolt and Centaur), Serge will showcase a suite if products all still in development.

Serge will be giving this session in London, Manchester and Edinburgh. Not to be missed!

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There's more to securing your ColdFusion applications by simply giving your ColdFusion Administrator a password.

Tag's David Rutter is going to help you by discussing ways to avoid the front pages of the news because of a security breach by covering topics such as XSS/CSRF/SQL Injection, coding for security, security and standards (ISO27000, PCI, etc), and what features ColdFusion itself brings to the table.

For those looking to harden their environments, or for those looking for a some security reassurance, then David's talk should not be missed.

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Every year, there is a story that sparks another "ColdFusion is Dead" debate.

Peter Elst, a name very well known in the Flash Community, challenged the last such story by another well known Flash Community Gugu; Aral Balkan.

As part of his efforts to rebuke Aral's claims, Peter has accepted the challenge of finding out whether ColdFusion really is dead and will present his findings at Scotch.

In the build up to Scotch on the Road: London, where Peter will present, he has been looking at everything and anything to do with ColdFusion, speaking with people who have an opinion on ColdFusion, and he will talk a little about his own challenges with the technology and why he hasn't used ColdFusion for his projects.

A brave man indeed to take on such a challenge, but we think this will be one of the best sessions at Scotch.

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A common question still to this day is: Which framework should I use?

Railo's Sean Corfield will be helping you decide with his session on Comparing Application Frameworks at Scotch on the Road: London. Sean will cover the similarities and differences between the two most popular OO application frameworks, in addition to touching on Coldbox, as well as showing how to structure your application and how to integrate other frameworks such as ColdSpring and Transfer.

This will be a really great session for those who are still undecided, those who are looking to take their development that stage further and for anyone who needs a refresher.

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