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I recently renewed my ACCU and ACM memberships after letting them go for a couple years. I feel like I’ve done myself a disservice by letting these lapse.

Both of these organizations provided me with countless hours of information and insight as a younger developer and I attribute their journals and usergroups to helping me become the programmer I am today.

These organizations promote growth and learning and both have the goal of making people do what they do better. Easier, smarter, more efficient. I think any programmer who cares about their craft and improving their abilities should seriously look at joining one or both of these organizations.

If you’re a past member who has let their subscription lapse it might be time to look in to renewing it, it will pay for itself many times over.

• ACM – http://www.acm.org (a Plone site! Yes, seriously)
• ACCU – http://www.accu.org (member count seems thin, but content is still great)

Both give you nice print subscriptions to their journals and access to their mailing lists and discussions. ACM membership also affords you access to Books24×7 and Safari.