Dean;

My experience agrees with yours! I have met some sharp developers who do not attend meetings, get on line, attend Devcon or anything of that sort.

I think that for some people writing good code is enough and having a life is of value. Some people may eat and sleep programming, have a limited social life, have an ego that requires positive reinforcement, be of a very giving nature and really go out of his/her way to help others like themselves, or any number of reasons that would lead to interaction with other developers.

Tom

>I think this view is wrong.
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>I've worked with programmers that really didn't get involved with "groups", but they could code the pants off of anyone. They just choose to keep to themself.
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>>Typically I would do a search on a name, to see what they've been up to.
>>I would look on UT, VFUG, Foxite, and the ms public newsgroups, along with some more web server searches.
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>>I always had some concept that if they were not a member of one of those communities, then they really were not 'in the loop', no matter what was on the resume