SOTR2010 is coming to a cinema near you !!!

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First batch of speakers announced for SOTR2010

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Just what is happening with SOTR2010?

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It seems strange to refer to the SOTR Europe events as being "sold out" when the events are free, but referring to them as being full makes them sound more like everyone is drunk - or maybe it's a Scottish thing??

Anyway, registration across the board is at 86% with Amsterdam, London and Zurich having already "sold out" their ticket allocation. We've already increased capacity for Amsterdam due to demand, and we've put standby lists in place for both London and Zurich with the aim, depending on demand, of increasing capacity.

Brussels and Milan are both doing well for registrations, but surprisingly Munich is lagging well behind. Maybe folks are planning a holiday after Oktoberfest? :)

We've been fairly quiet about SOTR Europe, and let it push itself along. We're now a month away from heading to Munich, the first date of that tour which also takes in Zurich, Milan, Amsterdam, Brussels and London.

We're delighted to say that both Amsterdam and London have sold out. Even better is that the demand for Amsterdam has so good that we've managed to push the venue to the limit and open up registration again for another 20 registrations. Once those are gone, there will be no more.

We're created a standby list for London, and we'll look to find space for those on the list if there is enough demand.

The great thing about this tour is that it's going to see us visit 400 ColdFusion developers. Taking in the 230 developers we visited as part of SOTR UK, we'll have reach over 600 European CF developers. That's absolutely fantastic!

The European tour is also seeing a number of European ColdFusion companies sponsor the tour, including Prisma-IT, Herrlich & Ramuschkat, and Tesi, as well as long time SOTR sponsors Intergral. We've also got Straker Software sponsoring a number of events. And we're still working on a few others - more details soon!

This is going to be a great tour, and with any luck we'll have some announcements about SOTR 2010 as well.

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

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My thoughts on how Scotch on the Road faired in 2009 compared to previous years.

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We take Scotch on the Rocks, on the Road next week with gigs in London (Monday 1st), Manchester (Wednesday 3rd) and Edinburgh (Friday 5th).

At a mere £49 a pop, you really have no excuse for not coming along. So if you haven't bought a ticket yet, head over to http://www.scotch-on-the-rocks.co.uk/?do=tickets.view

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".

Get your ticket for Scotch now!

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.

Go grab your ticket for Scotch now!