ColdFusion: Pretty Printing JSON with Google's gson

Here's a simple example on how to pretty print JSON with ColdFusion.

Install or load Google's gson.jar file by building it from the git repo https://github.com/google/gson or download the latest jar 

<cfscript>
variables.myJSON = {"ugly":"put in some ugly/compressed json here"};
variables.objJSON = CreateObject("java","com.google.gson.GsonBuilder").setPrettyPrinting().create();
variables.objParser= CreateObject("java","com.google.gson.JsonParser");
variables.jsonElement =  variables.objParser.parse(variables.myJSON);
variables.result = variables.objJSON.toJson(variables.jsonElement);
WriteOutput("<textarea cols='80' rows='20'>#variables.result#</textarea>");
</cfscript>

Oracle: Obtaining a date for a given business day in a month.

Oracle SQL to get the date for a given business day in a passed in month, sysdate used for example.

With a as(
SELECT
  trunc(sysdate,'MM')- 1 + level AS day
 ,to_number(to_char(trunc(sysdate,'MM')- 1 + level,'D'))  as weekday
 ,rownum as business_day
FROM
  dual
  where to_char(trunc(sysdate,'MM')- 1 + level,'D') not in (1,7)
  -- add in a check for a holday calendar here
CONNECT BY LEVEL between 1 and EXTRACT(day from last_day(sysdate)) 
)
select a.day  from a where business_day = 5