Minimal Master Page

One of the things I frequently find myself doing is creating a master page for some custom layout. There are many controls that need to be on a master page or errors will be thrown by SharePoint. To make sure you have all the controls the first time, Microsoft created an article with the code needed to create a minimal master page.

I use this article all the time and thought other people would like to have a place to go instead of trying to figure out what controls are needed.