• Meet The Speakers

    Scotch on the Rocks prides itself on bringing you face-to-face with some of the industry's leading speakers and presenters, and SotR13 is no exception.

    Our line-up includes some of the most recognisable names in Web Development from around the world, giving attendees the opportunity to hear from industry professionals at the cutting edge of development today.

    SotR13 also gives new speakers an opportunity to debut, and we are pleased to welcome some fresh faces in our line up; those whose knowledge is just too good not to share.

    We are excited to introduce our speakers for SotR13 this year, and are confident we offer a great line up for you to learn from.

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  • Discover The Sessions

    Scotch on the Rocks always aims to bring you current informative content and sessions to enhance, enrich and excite you. Every year we ask what you want to know, and you tell us. That's why we're pretty confident that our session line-up offers what you want.

    This years conference sees us tackle the ever growing Web Development landscape, covering CFML, Ruby, JavaScript, HTML5 and more.

    From formal presentations to more interactive question and answer sessions, the programme has been put together to include something for everybody.

    Browse the session list to see what we have in store for 2013.

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  • Mikado Method - Making Code Changes Less of an Impact

    The Mikado Method is a simple straight forward methodology for large scale refactoring. We’ve all been there; tasked with a change, which as optimistic developers we say won’t take us long, weeks late...

  • How to be a good open source citizen

    Today more and more projects are being released to open source or developed as open source projects. You might think that there isn’t much to being a good user of open source. Install the project, use...

  • ColdFusion Anti-Patterns

    Have you ever written some code using a clever pattern that you thought was awesome, only to find some 'expert' on the 'internet' actually criticising the pattern and calling it rude names. Well, ...

  • Cultured Localisation, or 'How not to offend one billion people'

    This talk isn’t really about localisation or internationalisation (add a ‘z’ if you prefer!) – it’s about culture and understanding. It’s about how we should all be approaching localisation challenges...