I like to have these two methods in my toolbelt, even though it's syntactic sugar, I think it aids clarity.

create a random string of 16 chars

Convert an ebcdic buffer to an ascii buffer.

template function to create a boost::shared_ptr in the form

boost::shared_ptr classPtr = new_ptr(Arg1, Arg2);

You can also make new_ptr_access a friend of className and make the constructor and destructor private.

This keeps the end user from:

Creating an instance manually on the heap
Creating an instance manually on the stack
Deleting a shared_ptr manually using "delete get()"

boost::format gives you the ablility to safely use printf like formatting as well as positional format specifiers ala .NET.

Converts a string representation of a number with any base(binary, octal, decimal, hexadecimal, up to base 36) to a long int.

Function that splits a given string into sections based on the allowed length for a section. Does not split words up. Splits string on Space character (can be set to another character)

Transform any basic type to string. Very handy for log messages

Usage:

int i(12);
float j(3.14);
cout

Two very usefull functions to have around.

(note: dollarfy requires commify to work)

This function loads an File into an String.