Yonat's Stuff for Developers

Here is some stuff I made for myself. Feel free to use it. Please tell me if you have any complaints or suggestions.

Tools

Spelly 2.5 (185K)
An add-in to Microsoft Visual C++ 6. Adds the ability to spellcheck source code and comments, including identifiers with under_scores and MixedCase. Can check HTML text while ignoring the tags.

Abby 1.5 (23K)
An add-in to Microsoft Visual C++ 6. Expands abbreviations like "abb" in good old vi. For example, w can be expanded to:
while () { }

Source code

Smart Pointers
C++ smart pointer classes. Almost all are usable (and useful) with STL containers. For an introduction to smart pointers and an explanation of their use, see my article Smart Pointers - What, Why, Which?.

owned_ptr.h - ownership aware auto-deleting pointer.
counted_ptr.h - simple reference counted pointer. STL compatible.
linked_ptr.h - simple reference linked pointer (like reference counting, just using a linked list of the references, instead of their count.) STL compatible.
copied_ptr.h - simple copy-on-create/assign pointer. STL compatible.
cow_ptr.h - simple copy-on-write pointer. Implemented with reference counting (before write). STL compatible.
autocreate_ptr.h - simple create-on-access pointer. Useful for implementing the Singleton pattern.

Standard Library Extensions
Small Extensions to the C++ Standard Library

pointainer.h - auto-cleaning STL container of pointers. Many times this is a better alternative than using smart pointers (no overhead, no multi-threading problems).
pointerator.h - iterator to T* that behaves like iterator to T. Useful for iterating pointainers and containers of smart pointers.
stringizer.h - turns an object into a std::string.

STL-Style MIME Encoders
C++ Classes to encode and decode character sequences, using base64 or quoted-printable encoding.