eXtreme Programmers are nothing if not clubbable, but the eXtreme Tuesday Club (XtC (http://xpdeveloper.com/xpdwiki/Wiki.jsp?page=XtC)) is a City thing, as in the City of London, and I'd hate for Reg Dev to seem London-centric. So, as there are also plenty of eXtreme Programmers up North, I was interested to hear of one of them (with some sponsorship from Erudine) trying to get another XP club going....

Check out it out here (http://extremeprogrammingclub.blogspot.com/) if you're going to be in the Leeds area....

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If there is one trend in 21st Century development, it is the importance of online developer communities as a balance to employer and vendor interests. Although, once again, perhaps this trend isn't so new after all...

Remember the power of Share (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SHARE_(computing)) (its official site is here (http://www.share.org/)) in the IBM mainframe world? And the UK Oracle User Group (UKOUG (http://www.ukoug.org/)) is a power in the Oracle world too; and then there's... Perhaps it's only in the Wonderful World of Desktop Computing where the vendors have all the power!

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