Just got back from the Cold­Fu­sion User Group WA meet­ing. This month, we had a real, honest-to-goodness speaker — John Rangi from Indus­try & Resources here in Perth gave a talk on XPath and demo’d some tools for us. It was very inter­est­ing and led to more dis­cus­sion of uses of XML, which sit­u­a­tions XML was a viable alter­na­tive to a rela­tional data­base in, and even­tu­ally to that topic that no one can get away from right now — AJAX. Thanks John!

It’s not that we’re not an active user group — it’s just that it seems we’d usu­ally rather sit around drink­ing beer, eat­ing chips and chat­ting about CF than organ­is­ing actual speak­ers or pre­sen­ta­tions. Well, that and also no one inter­est­ing comes to Perth. At least not very often.

But we’re try­ing to rem­edy that with a new points sys­tem with big rewards for the win­ner at the end of the year. Well, soft­ware or some­thing any­way. So Andy gets one extra point for bringing/organising a speaker. John gets 10 points for speak­ing. And we all get one point for turn­ing up. It’s all on!