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()"

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

Usage:

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

I was coding a project that used arrays when the lack of a standard foreach in C/C++ got to me. So, I coded this little function to help me. It applies a function that returns int to each element of the array.

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

This little function puts a string of a specified color and (centered) location. However, keep the word simple in mind. I purposfully not made it capable of supporting newlines.

By the way, this is my first snippet

I made this a little while back for a friend who was having trouble learning sockets. Below are snf.h, snferror.h and example.cpp (a little example).

The example opens a "web server" at port 8080 on the machine. However, it displays just one page.

Have fun!

Convert an ebcdic buffer to an ascii buffer.

Add this header after all your other headers. Compiles on standards compliant compilers.

Simple tests for dir and file existance. Path creation and removal.

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