One of the things you want to hit up right away after you get reacquainted is the boost library: http://www.boost.org/ http://www.boost.org/ If you use it well

One of the things you want to hit up right away after you get reacquainted is the boost library: http://www.boost.org/ http://www.boost.org/ If you use it well, it does a lot of heavy lifting, adds a lot of safety and expressiveness (boost::bind is just pure magic) that just wasn't there before, and a lot of the boost libraries are going into the standard - and are already implemented in the TR1 namespace.