What ojbyrne said. Also, something that takes quite a bit of time to learn is when to give up on a library/framework and just reinvent the wheel (which I recen

What ojbyrne said. Also, something that takes quite a bit of time to learn is when to give up on a library/framework and just reinvent the wheel (which I recently did---nftw() did everything I needed, except I couldn't get it to not follow symlinks; I found it easier to roll my own version).