SOTR 2011 Speakers – the wraps are off

Almost on schedule and the immensely hard-working team behind Scotch on the Rocks have unveiled the speaker list for the 2011 conference in Edinburgh.

Amongst the usual luminaries of the CF community it’s good to see some UK community names in the list. The only problem? With that many speakers and 3 tracks I’m going to need to work double time on my self cloning technology to see all that I want to see!

Why Adobe should support ColdFusion Builder on Linux

@sagarganatra @robdudley if only a single feature was added to ColdFusion Builder 2, it should be Linux supportAugust 4, 2010 11:29 via TweetDeck

A topical issue at the moment – Adobe’s lack of support for ColdFusion builder on a platform that isn’t proprietary(Windows, OSX) is something that is very close to my heart.

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Scotch on the Rocks 2010 – Day Two

ColdBox Platform 3.0.0 : Developing Sustainable ColdFusion Applications  - Luis Majano (Ortus Solutions)

As a firm believer in roll your won code I’ve always viewed large frameworks with some suspicion. Especially when Mike in his caching session pointed out that a framework with 1000’s of CFCs before you even start writing your own code is chewing into much needed heap space.

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Scotch on the Rocks 2010 – Day One

Keynote (Adobe)

Terry Ryan kicked of the first day with an indy themed KeyNote. His initial demo was of a very impressive ColdFusion builder extension. Apptacular is a code generation system that runs natively from within CFBuilder and was demoed as being able to wire up CRUD from a DB (with smart table renaming for your CFCs and methods) and a massive amount of functionality that reduced initial project setup time from a few hours to about 20 seconds. It’s not everyone’s cup of tea given that a lot of CF devs will use a frame work of some sort to speed up the inital development process but Apptacular was certainly an impressive demonstration of CFBuilder’s extensibility and adds massive value to the IDE.

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SOTR 2010 – What I’m going to see

The premier UK ColdFusion conference Scotch on the Rocks 2010 is less than 2 weeks away!

I’m starting to get excited. My flights are booked. My hotel is confirmed (and it’s all of 2 minutes away which is nice) and I’ve got my selection of geek t-shirts picked out. The laptop is loaded and cleaned down ready to rock some remote CF action.

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The iPad – Less than it should have been

It has to be said that, in my search for Gadget Nirvana, I’ve frequently flip-flopped over which vendor or sector was more likely to provide the ultimate, all in one solution to … well … everything!

Circa 5 years ago my money was on open source (hardware, software, flapjacks, whatever!) to combine my massive list of entertainment, communication and connectivity requirements into one, affordable, hackable, workable device.

With the purchase of my first MacBook Pro I shifted over to Apple as the possible saviour of we the fickle, techno devout members of the Nintendo generation.

With the release of Android, Google OS, the Nexus One and their awesome web-based tool kit, my allegiances shifted to Mountain View for a while – they promised the answer to all my needs (well, almost all) in a shiny fun a clearly “Not Evil” package.

And now?

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