Coldfusion documentation states ListContains() as,

Description
Determines the index of the first list element that contains a specified substring.
Returns
Index of the first list element that contains substring. If not found, returns zero.

Adobe Documentation

To explain the problem I ran into I’m gonna use this page I found, explaining a similar situation as mine.

ListContains issue

in anycase above link didn’t work, I’m taking the essence of it.
what it’s is, if you have a list 1,2,3,4,55,6, and if you use ListContains(ListName, "5", ",") you would expect to get 0, because "5" in NOT in mylist.
But what does the function returns, 5 because by documentation definition "5" is in "55" (substring).
what? I know it’s confusing, you and me both, but that’s how ListContains() work.

So what’s the solution, ListFind() or[ListFindNoCase() , depending on content of your List].
But be careful now to give the result you want, make sure to match up EXACTLY as it is in the list, including leading and trailing spaces.
To be in the safe side, whereever you appen your list, make sure to use trim() to avoid unnecessary spaces.
I have to find out this the hard way, but now you don’t have to.
Glad to help, you are welcome. lol

UPDATE 10/05/2010

Even though I didn’t mention ArrayToList() function here thought of dropping a word on that. Come to find out, ArrayToList() only works for one-dimentional arrays.

Description

Converts a one-dimensional array to a list.

Returns

Delimited list, as a string.

Adobe Documentation

Becareful on that, because even it’s clear on the documentation, I over-looked it and ran into a problem.

You’ll catch your self humming, or even singing out load whenever there is nobody is around.

Fear not, solution is hear (i mean ‘here’). It’s UnhearIt. This lovely app generates a random song guaranteed(atleast in my case) to get that annoying song out of your head, (well you might get stuck with a new one, but that’s a different problem. May be you can UnhearIt again, circle of life lol.)

Anyway, enjoy, i sure do

Anyhow, after ample internet reading and searching, I finally figured it out

Here is how I did it. I’m sure there are plenty of ways of doing this, but to save you with the trouble I’m posting it. Feel free to use and and please comments thoughts, suggestions, etc.

And BTW, this snippet finds the Last Business Day of the month. With little bit of tweaking, it’s easy to find the first business day of next month. (I actually had to find both, in two different occurrences.) (Let me know if you want that)

Here we go,

Before we get into coding here is a scenario to think about. Let’s say we found what’s the last business day of the month, but what if that’s a company holiday…. aha problemo isn’t it? Not so much, if we factor that in to coding.

Now-a-days almost every company has a table of company holidays. This is usually managed by HR dept. and this list contains company holidays as well as national holidays.

Oh BTW, when this is running I made it pop up a cfwindow saying ‘today is the last business day of this month, do whatcha gotta do’

Last Business Day Code

SOURCE

In my case, my vehicle is registered in DE so DE cops won’t care about an expired PA registration stickers as long as I have valid DE registration sticker on my tags.

But if you are in PA cop can pull you over for expired sticker and even if you explain this is a DE car, I heard they can still give you a sticker for confusing a cop or for still display an expired sticker. You don’t have to go through all that trouble, but if there is an easy way to remove that sticker?

That’s what I thought, so last night I took that project. I heard lipstick removals or blowing a hair dryer would do the trick, but go figure I’m NOT armed with any of those. So I have to find an alternative.

So for the regular people, here is all you need;

• small piece of cloth (cotton preferably), soak it with water.
• Something flat with a dull edge. (I used a coaster)

Rub the  cloth against the sticker. If you rub hard enough, you’ll notice some parts of the sticker just come right off. (Numeric month piece for an instance)

Then take the same cloth and coaster make it like Figure 1,

FIGURE 1

Make sure to cover any edge of the coaster with the cloth cause you don’t want to scratch your windscreen, then just give the sticker a good ol’ a scrape. (FIGURE 2)

FIGURE 2

Before you know, you’ll have a clean windscreen with no trace of that sticker. Oh yeah,  make sure to clean off any glue marks from the screen, then you are good to go.

FIGURE 3

If you know any other ways of getting this done, please feel free to share.

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I may be old news, but for me it’s new and it’s fascinating facts, facts that I didn’t knew. Enjoy.

This past Monday(02/15/2010) Microsoft debuted their long-waited window phone 7 series.  I must say it is truly  the next generation of mobile OS. It’s UI is so sleek and everything you would expect is there. I, my self waiting for this release as it’s almost time for me to look into a new mobile device.

But what are we hearing, they have the OS but not the device. WHAT? and it’s expected date to hit the market is 2010 holidays? COME ON.  I was expecting it sooner than that (to be honest I was expecting it from last Monday). Oh well. The downfall of waiting that long, by then the OS is not going to look so innovative. Hard core competitors like Apple and Google gonna beef up their line up so, windows phone 7 by holidays, is not gonna look so unique.

And did I tell you, it looks so much better than both Apple’s iphone 3.1 OS and Google’s Andriod 2.1 (Eclair). (I’m actually not a big fan of Google Andriod, but since I have to get a new phone, Nexus One is also in my set of phones to be consider.)

What’s most interesting is that, it seems like now everyone is releasing phones. Why I say that, today I come to find out PUMA is going to release a phone. YES, you read it right, PUMA the athletic apparel company, competitor of NIKE, ADDIDAS etc.

Check it out.  It’s actually pretty good looking.

So back to squire one, which phone to get? it’s truly up to you coz there is too many choices you have to pick your own. (To be honest I’m lost my self can’t decide what to get. Feel free to comment may be that will help me to make my decision.)

I know with the high dependability of email for business and for personal use, you know there is something else is coming your way, Phishing.

May be the above flow chart might be a little bit of a help to make to you decide.

The other day I came across this very informative video on digital Inspiration.

Video gives an great outline of a ‘Steve Jobs’ presentation, but those who are in a rush here are the main points in bullet form.

• Setting the Theme of the presentation, i.e. identify  a theme, make sure it’s clear and consistent, sets the direction,  give the audience a reason to listern
• Provide an outline of your presentation, i.e. open and close each section with a clear transaction, this helps the listerner to follow your presentation
• Be energetic and show enthusiasm about what you are talking about, make your audience wow-ed
• Sell Experience, i.e. if you are offering numbers, stats etc. make it meaningful, and connection to what you are talking about
• Make the presentation an  visual experience, help THEM to paint the picture, i.e. few on bullet points big on visuals
• Rehearse and rehearse plenty
• and lastly add ‘One more thing’ this make audience feels like there were given an added bonus

Well hopefully all these tips will be helpful for you to get your job done like Jobs.

Yes I also had concern ‘eating raw fish’ –  I’m over that coz it’s NOT raw fish (atleast not the once I’m eating, sushi made with raw fish is called Sashimi, and here is the wiki about it.) And I did learn how HOT wasabi is.

According to my understanding, Sushi had made it’s way to a socially acceptable dinning. I.e. Golf is accepted as a high class, social networking game so as eating Sushi at a good Sushi Bar (find sushi bars near you).

Any-how, I came across this wonderful Sushi Etiquette on ClusterFlock, and I find it interesting.