Getting Back to Work

While I don't officially go back to work until Monday - being the boss is good - I've got some stuff to do for Monday and finally decided to pop the laptop open today. Aside from catching up on a billion emails - seriously, don't people take time off at Christmas???? - I thought I'd get my first blog post of 2008 out of the way.

I'll start by doing a quick coverage of 2007.

2007 started with yours truly finally deciding it was time to bite the bullet and go full time with Fuzzy Orange, a company I originally started back in 2005. The first "proper" year has been extremely successful, and a lot of that success was down to Scotch on the Rocks. Scotch didn't make us money, that wasn't the idea. However, it did bring us a lot of business afterwards, and that's where we reap our reward. The conference is about the community.

Of course, I could wax lyrical about Scotch for hours, but I'd suggest listening to the podcast I did for ColdFusion Weekly to get a good feel for the conference.

Building contacts, gaining clients and pushing the company was the goal of the first year and I think we've achieved that. We also managed to push out the door some ColdFusion Administration training courses, and of course the SOTR invasion of MAX Europe in Barcelona. Aside from my presentation on ColdFusion Server Monitoring and Troubleshooting (and going head to head with Sean Corfield, Ben Forta and Ted Patrick), we also managed to get quite a few speakers, delegates and Adobe staff to wear Scotch 2008 promotional t-shirts.

Oh yes, how can I forgot the infamous 4 starter dinner courtesey of Adobe! Thanks for that Kristen!!! :)

Goals for 2008 are simple. Build on the success of 2007, expand the company, and make Scotch on the Rocks the European conference for all things ColdFusion.... easy eh.