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.

If anyone has tried using the .NET Graphics API, they know that replacing pixel colors takes a long time to complete. I did some research and found a good source. This code will adjust the color to greyscale by Binary.
The page is http://www.navicosoft.com/software_articles/softwares_articles_index.html for more information. It is under Basic Image Processing in the list of articles.

Convert an ebcdic buffer to an ascii buffer.

This is a PHP and JavaScript Image gallery that I created. There are 2 uses for this.
1.) You can save it as index.php and place in a folder containing images and it will display the images in that folder.
Example:
place index.php in images/folder
http://yoursite.com/images/folder/
This will display all images in that folder

2.) Pass in the path to the folder to display in the url
Example:
Save as imagegallery.php
http://yoursite.com/imagegallery.php?path=images/folde

There are two methods in this example. One uses directory services the other uses API. Both will return a list of computer names on your network

If you only want to compare yyyy-mm-dd you can use the java.sql.Date class, the valueOf method does the trick. It's perfectly safe as the sql Date class is a subclass of the Date class.

Check out the docs here for more detail.

enjoy

Recursively removes files or directories with a given name, using find.

I most frequently use it to remove 'CVS' or '.svn' directories from sourcepackages that still have the versioning information in them.

This adds your ssh public key to the authorized_keys on a remote server. The key file in the snippet is called id_dsa.pub, yours may have another name but this is standard for DSA encryption.

To learn more about ssh I heartly recommend this: SSH tips and tricks

This one-liner is great, it lists the commands you have used by popularity. At present, the 'cd' command wins in my history file with 140. Followed by ls (93) and ssh (56). What are your top 3 commands

Snippet source: ibm