As mentioned before but we are growing our team even further now and we now have the requirement for 2 Senior Developers and 2 (What we are calling) Middle Weight Developers. So here are the Job Specs:

2 * Senior ColdFusion Developers

The senior developer will work with the Lead Developer to architect high performance and scalable web applications. They will also take ownership of the build and maintenance of the above mentioned applications. The role will be given direct responsibility for delivery of the projects within their stream of work and will have a dedicated middleweight developer to work alongside them. The role will include mentoring and utilising the assigned middleweight developer to ensure project work is delivered onetime and to specification

The business will see an increase in the amount of work produced from the IT department as these roles will be as the key person within a Major project Stream.

EXPERIENCE & KNOWLEDGE           

• 4-5 Years ColdFusion Development (E)
• ColdFusion 8 Enterprise Experience (D)
• Exposure to OO (E)
• Exposure to one of the Major ColdFusion Frameworks (FuseBox, Mach-II, Model Glue, ColdBox, ColdSpring)(E)
• MSSQL 2005 Experience (E)
• PHP/.net experience (D)
• Unit testing (D)
• Continuous Integration – CI (D)
• Agile Development (D)

KEY SKILLS

• ColdFusion (E)
• Ability to test own work (E)
• Troubleshooting skills (E)
• Documentation (D)
• ColdFusion Administration (D)
• IIS Administration (D)
• Source Control (E)

PERSONAL QUALITIES

• Work well under pressure
• Takes ownership of own work
• Team player
• Pro-active, can-do attitude
• Good written/reporting skills
• Good communication skills
• Eye for detail
• Flexible

2 * Middleweight ColdFusion Developers

The ColdFusion developer will work with a Senior Developer to build and maintain high performance and scalable web applications. The role will be given project specific responsibilities and will be required to work with the senior developer to ensure that their stream of work is completed on time and to specification.

The business will see an increase in the amount of work produced from the IT department as these roles will be as the secondary person within a Major project Stream.

EXPERIENCE & KNOWLEDGE           

• 1 Years ColdFusion Development (E)
• 2 Years total Development Experience (E)
• Exposure to OO (D)
• Exposure to ColdSpring/FuseBox/Mach-II/Model-Glue/ColdBox (D)
• MSSQL 2005 Experience (D)
• PHP/.net experience (D)

KEY SKILLS

• ColdFusion (E)
• Ability to test own work (E)
• Troubleshooting skills (E)
• Documentation (D)

PERSONAL QUALITIES

• Work well under pressure
• Team player
• Pro-active, can-do attitude
• Good written/reporting skills
• Good communication skills
• Eye for detail
• Flexible

So if you are after a new challenge what are you waiting for? Interview Slots are Available immediately and you must be able eligible to work in the UK. (If you have sent your CV in before, and are still looking then please resend as these are new positions.) If your interested then please send your CV to our HR Department if you would like any further information then please feel free to use my contact form.

NO AGENCIES PLEASE!!!! WE HAVE A STRICT PSL.

There you are getting in to work on a Monday Morning and and you have a mail from the COO and the Head of IT asking what the F**K Happened over the weekend when the site went down for over an hour. Where do you start? What's the first thing you look for?

Well if you have ever been in this position, then your saviour is on the way in the disguise of Fusion Analytics from the team that have given us Fusion Debug (My Eclipse Install Feels Naked without this) and Fusion Reactor. Fusion Analytics is still in pre Alpha so no-one has really had a chance to play with it but from the demos given by the guys at Integral everyone has said it will save them so many hours in finding why our applications die on us, at the most annoying times.

But you can tell the guys are listening to every bit of feedback they have been getting: "After feedback from CFUnited & Scotch-on-the-Rocks we’ve added the timeline zoom control which lets you zoom to larger/smaller time-frames at the click of a button (of course, if you have a scroll-wheel we also support that!)"

Remember, FusionAnalytics is no one-trick pony and can analyse all sorts of data… CF/IIS/Apache/Custom log files, databases, SNMP polls… and not just for CF - for any type of data.

So teh site has gone down at some point and now you will be able to take all the logs you need, and then tell exactly what happened at that point with the click of a mouse and have your COO and Head of IT Happy again ;)

 
As always stay pinned to the FusionLabs ( http://www.fusion-reactor.com/fr/labs.cfm ) for all our latest BETAs & news.
 

So here are some Images:

They are always working on adding new analytics. Here we see the beginnings of our request size & speed analysis module.

Ever needed to trawl through your logs to find messages (or lack of) for a date range? Wouldn’t it be good if you could combine viewing the log file (by date – not line) with other metrics? In our experience this can be a time-consuming task… or should I say it was a time-consuming task… 

Web service calls generating active sessions. You may have seen the CF8 monitor (which doesn’t store any of this information for later analysis). Integral developed an add-on to store this data so that you can monitor any of the metrics you see in CF8. This way you can analyse the data even after CF8 is restarted. Just take a look at this example where you can see CFThreads, calling webservices (on the same instance) which are generating active sessions. You can immediately see the correlation and know exactly what to investigate.

FusionAnalytics provides a plug-in architecture making it very easy to configure your own visualizations. Here’s a sample from the FusionReactor log analysis plug-in enabling double clicking of request URLs. Note: Although you see text-labels in this snippet, they now have internationalization support based around resource packages.

So all in all Fusion Analytics should save us all time and give more time developing those cool apps in our heads ;)

Well here we are on the other side of yet another successful Scotch on the Rocks; which certainly was bigger and better then last year.

The first blog posting from the event seemed to have come from Sean Corfield and really did sum up how we were "disorganised", and here are the reasons:

• We were meant to have access to all rooms from 6pm but this ended up being 10:30/11pm so Andy & Myself where up till 2.30 am setting up what we could; Then back down at 6.
• Somewhere along the lines Printed Passes got lost from a walk of 20 meters I blame Mr Hoppy
• We didn't have a complete ticketing application that we could easily check people off with

So we will certainly be rectifying these before next years event.

We have had a few people ask about the R.I.P. Slide in the closing Keynote; and the honest answer is it was totally true until 60 minutes before the keynote it self. The true reason being the cost of putting on such an event, with keeping the ticket costs as low as possible; does mean that cost have to be covered by sponsorship and this year it certainly wasn't at the level we were expecting. So with some great negations by Andy's (soon to be) wife Leanne the final bill was less then we expected. At which point Andy and I sat down to do the final keynote and decided to leave in the R.I.P. slide for dramatic affect which from the response of the delegates in the room certainly did work (Mouth dropping every where!).

But in true Scotch Style we were only joshing; and announced that we will be back with a Sequel. Which will be bigger and better then this years (how we're not really sure).

So as you can guess; with the 2009 event being 60 minutes away from not happening we hope you can see that the Scotch team isn't in it to make money but also not in the game for losing money.

The official numbers for the event where up on last years by around 50%; the FlexiPass and Multi Day passes certainly did help people to make it.

Some of the other main issues we found this year were:

• Lack of Synopsis on sessions
• Registration being a mess
• No true free wi-fi
• Choice at Lunch was limited for some

Work has already begun on next years event and the issues above are very high on our prioirty list; we want a near polished event for next year ;) Yeah righto!

Once again a great thanks goes out to all the guys and gals that made it up to Scotch and hope to see all the same faces again next year and new ones too at the sequel!

I also can't thank Fuzzy Orange enough to funding and organising such a great conference. As well as all the other sponsors including Adobe for providing some great prizes.

Looking forward to see you all in Edinburgh again in 2009 if not before at the UKCFUG or other SOTR Events!