Sunday
Jun 6,2010
Just after Scotch On The Rocks 2010, we were lucky to have Ben, Ray, Alison, Terry and Claude to come over and give a talk. I must say that I was very disappointed to see that only half of the people who registered showed up: with such great speakers, I expected that more people would be interested, especially with 300+ ColdFusion developers that work in Belgium. Well except that “negative” point we had a great event: read my review of SOTR 2010 regarding the talks that they gave (there was some changes from the initial plan), I will just point to the online slides:
Introduction
slides
Mastering the ColdFusion Application Framework - Ben Nadel
slides
code samples
Supercharge your ColdFusion Builder – Ray Camden
slides and code samples
How Catalyst Will Transform The ColdFusion Developer – Terry Ryan
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During the break we had a Flash Builder 4 Premium license and the new book from Steven “Flash Builder and Flash Catalyst: The New Workflow“ to giveaway: congrats to our winners! 
To end our event, we had an informal Meet The Team which started slowly (typical with an European crowd) to finally turn out to be pretty interesting: lots of questions about pricing of course (CFBuilder vs. CFEclipse or CF9 vs. open source CFML engines), about old Allaire/Macromedia days when ColdFusion was getting more or less attention, etc…
Special thanks again to our speakers and Adobe, it was so great to have them here in Belgium and thanks also to people who attended the event, you seem to be very passionate about ColdFusion!
To be sure that we understand your expectations for the Belgium CFUG, I created a survey with few questions so please fill it (locals only!) quickly so we could setup our next event.
Pictures of the event
understanfFlash Builder and Flash Catalyst: The New Workflow
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Saturday
Jun 5,2010
So Scotch On The Rocks 2010 is over: 1 week already but I didn’t have the time to write a review before, I had to recover Seriously let’s have a quick look at what happened for me but I won’t go into the detail of each sessions that I followed, it does not really makes sense after so many days.
Day 0 – aka “pre-Scotch”
Well, I should avoid saying that I managed to loose myself in London while trying to find my hotel: no map, my phone refused to load Google Maps (conspiracy?) so after 30mins I decided to call Guust, who was already in London, to guide me. The fun fact is when I got him on the phone he was 150 meters from me and my hotel was just 1.5 km away Later, after that “false start”, we met some folks at the Tiger Tiger: Leanne, Andy, Matt, Ben and Ray were already there, then later the other Adobians (Alison, Terry and Claude) joined us and also some other EU ColdFusion folks. We had a great time!
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Thursday
May 20,2010
As you may already know, Ray “ColdFusion Jedi” Camden, Ben Nadel, Terry Ryan, Alison Huselid and Claude Englebert will do a “mini European” CFUG Tour just after Scotch On The Rocks. So if you really can make it to SOTR2010 then not excuses for not attending one of those CFUG events:
Brussels – May 26, 6.30PM
Adobe Belgium – Culliganlaan 2F, Diegem
Amsterdam – May 27, 5.30PM
Adobe Systems Benelux B.V. – Europlaza, Hoogoorddreef 54a, Amsterdam
Munich – May 28, 5.30PM (Ben Nadel, Terry Ryan)
Adobe Systems, Georg-Brauchle-Ring 58, 80992 München
Zurich – May 28, 18PM (Ray Camden, Alison Huselid)
Technopark, Technoparkstrasse 1, 8005 Zürich
They are not coming very often to Europe so it’s a unique opportunity that you MUST NOT MISS! I hope that there will be a lot of you at those events… by the way
there are still some places left for our Belgium one.
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Thursday
May 20,2010
Only 3 days left before Scotch On The Rocks (BTW there are few tickets left) and I finally decided which sessions I will attend (If I don’t change my mind in the last minute).
Monday 24th May
09:00-10:00 – Keynote (Adobe)
10:15-11:15 – Mastering the ColdFusion Application Framework (Ben Nadel)
11:30-12:30 – A whistlestop tour of HTML5 and CSS3 (Chris Mills (Opera))
13:30-14:30 – How Catalyst Will Transform The ColdFusion Developer (Terry Ryan)
14:45-15:45 – The Art of Emotional Design: A story of pleasure, joy, and delight. (Aral Balkan)
16:00-17:00 – Supercharge your ColdFusion Builder (Ray Camden)
17:30-18:00 – Raffle and Awards Ceremony
18:15-19:30 – Birds of a Feather
Tuesday 25th May
09:00-10:00 – Get ready for the mobile revolution (Serge Jespers)
10:15-11:15 – AJAX is the answer to everything and we never need to worry again and life is full of unicorns! (Ray Camden)
11:30-12:30 – SQL to HQL (John Whish)
13:30-14:30 – AIR & Printing (Luca Mezzalira)
14:45-15:45 – An enlightening insight into the world of ‘TweetDeck labs’. (Tom Woolway/James Whittaker)
16:00-17:00 – Applying Twitter’s API “Best Practices” In A ColdFusion Application (Ben Nadel)
See you there!
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