So, following on from my post on day 1 of Scotch on the Rocks, here is my post on day 2.

Rolled into the George Hotel after 9 hours sleep (a huge improvement on yesterday's awake/asleep mismatch), coffee in hand and ready for the Doug Hughes "CFC Crash Course" parts 1 and 2 session. From the basics of what a CFC is and how we might use it, stepping it up a few levels through nearly 2 hours, this was a very worthwhile session(s) for someone at my level. I got a lot out of this session and feel I could have gone another hour easilly on this, very helpfull stuff.

Taking us up to lunch was Gert Franz on Railo. I must admit that my interest in this was purely on the level of "so what does Railo offer that Adobe Coldfusion doesn't", not holding out much hope that I'd be super impressed. How wrong I was! In the line of work that the company I work for(East Coast Interactive) we do a lot with video on the web, Gert proceeded to show us the video tags built into Railo...wow! check it out here.

Out for a sandwich and a walk around in the sunshine for lunch today.

And back for the lunchtime keynote...it's Gert Franz again and some small news about Railo going open source and hooking up with JBoss....BIG news! read all about it here.

Next up was Mark Drew "Getting to grips with Aptana and AIR apps" which totally caught my interest given that I use Aptana plugged into eclipse and also on the strength of his presentation style on day 1. I wasn't dissapointed. Even though there was a slight touch of WIFI trouble, the process of using jQuery to build a twitter client in AIR was enlightening, the discovery of the AIR samples and documentation is huge...I will be checking this out in much more detail.

I finished the day's sessions in Andrew Shorten's "Inspired AIR" which showed several cool AIR apps and talked a bit about the future, all very interesting.

And on to the main event....the raffle!...a "see how far you can throw a paper plane" competition decided which of the 3 people who'd answered a question correctly in the previous sessions decided who got 1st pick of the goodies. There were some great prizes on offer, a coldfusion enterprise license, a standard licence, a couple copies of Flex Builder 3 Pro, a copy of creative suite etc etc, books, t-shirts, bottles of whisky, a little book of calm, an overnight bag from BA for when they lose your luggage all the way down to a sick bag(unused) from a plane...I can confirm that I won f**k all.

Apart from not winning anything, I had a great time today, got a bit of a chat with Mark Drew after his session, nice guy! and had a bit of a chat with Sean Corfield about things as well...man alive, that guy is busy! seems to be involved with everything..from fusebox, through several other frameworks, to open office! Glad I got the chance to speak to him today.

So...just one day to go then...not sure how much new information my brain can handle but I'm looking forward to finding out!