Welcome to the Tower, my programming and web development blog. Here you will find articles relating to CFML, CSS, HTML, Java, JavaScript and Regular Expressions, plus discussions on the associated tools, technologies, techniques and ideas.</p> <p>For more general topics, please visit <a href="http://www.sorcerers-isle.net">Sorcerer's Isle</a>, where you will find articles on my other interests. Conferences

<p>The more observant visitors to this blog may have noticed the badge floating in the corner, indicating that I will be speaking at the cfDevCon developer conference later this year.</p> <p><a href="http://www.cfdevcon.com">CFDevCon 2008</a> is a UK-based ColdFusion and web development conference, being held this September down in <a href="http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=BN1+2FU&ie=UTF8&ll=51.224088,-0.291138&spn=2.146777,5.668945&t=k&z=8&iwloc=addr">Brighton</a>.</p> <p>Whilst ColdFusion and CFML are the focus of the conference, the organisers are keen to also cover complementary web development subjects, and there is a good variety of topics on <a href="http://www.cfdevcon.com/schedule.cfm">the schedule</a>.</p>

2008-07-01T22:48:44Z

<p>Well the first day of Scotch '08 is now over, so here is a quick round-up of the sessions I attended.</p> <p>Day two has ended, and I have updated the main entry with details on today's events.</p> <p>Scotch on the Rocks 2008 is now unfortunately ended, as before please see the main entry for the final day's summaries.</p>

2008-06-06T22:57:00Z

<p>The next Scotch on the Rocks was confirmed today. It has been extended to a three day event from Wednesday 4th to Friday 6th of June 2008, and promises to be bigger and better than Scotch 2007 in every way.</p> <p>If you are in any way interested in ColdFusion and surrounding technologies, you will want come to Scotch 2008. Of course, if you've been before you wont need convincing, but anyone who isn't sure should read Andy Allan's explanation of <a href="http://www.creative-restraint.co.uk/blog/index.cfm/2007/8/20/Why-You-Should-Attend-Conferences-especially-Scotch-on-the-Rocks">why you really should attend Scotch 2008</a> and if you're still uncertain then have a look at <a href="/article/my_edinburgh_adventure.html#day5">my brief write-up of Scotch 2007</a>.</p> <p>For more information keep an eye on <a href="http://www.scotch-on-the-rocks.co.uk/">the new website, at scotch-on-the-rocks.co.uk</a>.</p>

2007-08-20T20:40:20Z

<p>Okay, so I've arrived back from <a href="http://www.cfdevcon.com">the UK's first* ColdFusion developers' conference</a> (*if you ignore the previous two UK-based CF conferences), and decided I would give my thoughts about it.</p>

2006-11-09T22:49:42Z