If you’re a full-time developer, well, even a part-time one, you could get some great benefit by making use ot tool libraries and source code on the web. I came across SharpToolbox with over 1000 tools for .Net and JavaToolBox with over 666 Java tools and snippets. Fabrice has been running these toolboxes for over 4 years, so he certainly deserves a round of applause for putting together these excellent collections.