Development Blog

At FoCul we pride ourselves in our technical skills and knowledge. We have developed this knowledge in large part through the IT community and this blog is one of our ways of giving back.

We have benefited greatly from the input of other members in the tech community. This BLOG is one of the ways that we give back and help others to enjoy developing modern web applications.

Fusion Charts tips ( including xPages )

During a recent Proof of Concept with XPages I was struggling to get fusion charts to work with Xpages so I thought I should write down what I learned. To be honest there is really only one tip that is specific to Xpages but the Fusion Charts bits was useful learning...

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Nasty bug installing Domino on RHEL

I am doing an install of 8.5 on RHEL 5.1 this week and as I haven't done one on this combination before I thought I would do a dry run, just as well really as there is a bit of a nasty install bug. If you install RHEL 5.1 and then allow the updates to run in their...

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IBM XPages Wiki – first thoughts and demo

IBM has released their Xpages Wiki on Open NTF as part of their new initiative to support the Open Source community. You can see Steve Castledines post here, Steve is the leading light behind the the Domino Blog template and I guess the Wiki Template. I think that...

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First thoughts on the 8.5 discussion template

I deployed an 8.5 gold discussion template to the server. The new template is a big improvement but I did find some weird stuff ! The Holy Grail for me is "out of the box" rich text compatibility between browser and client. It was very refreshing to see this Then I...

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