essentials

Essential "code toolset" for java/.Net

What essential code packages do you use on every project, that's not included in the BCL or java distribution? Mocking/Stubbing Unit Tests IOC / Dependency Injection Logging ORM ... Which implementation of the above do you use? What essentials did I miss? ...

When is a basic (webdev) education complete?

I'm an ICT student. I've been doing it for 2 years and recently I started following developper blogs, got a twitter account to keep track of new blogs, lists of tips, tricks, free templates and other such things. Doing so has showed me that the amount of subject I thought I had to cover is actually vastly smaller than what's really out ...

What can you do in C without "std" includes? Are they part of "C," or just libraries?

I apologize if this is a subjective or repeated question. It's sort of awkward to search for, so I wasn't sure what terms to include. What I'd like to know is what the basic foundation tools/functions are in C when you don't include standard libraries like stdio and stdlib. What could I do if there's no printf(), fopen(), etc? Also, a...