You had a choice and you picked coding rather than go out. Once, it's fine. The problem, with the many developer friends I have, is that very quickly they settl

You had a choice and you picked coding rather than go out. Once, it's fine. The problem, with the many developer friends I have, is that very quickly they settle in a routine of never going to events, because there is always one more line of code to write. That's where you need discipline. As I wrote a year ago, if you never go to events, set your goal to two events a month. If you go to two per month, set your goal to once a week. That should be enough. You can read the long version at http://blog.fairsoftware.net/2009/07/09/good-programmers-dont-need-no-marketing/ http://blog.fairsoftware.net/2009/07/09/good-programmers-don..., in the "Four Step Recovery Program" section.