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.

Blog partially reskinned – I hate IE

I will post more about this but I am part way through reskinning this blog as part of a project to re-develop our company web site. It works great in Firefox but IE is not so good - reminds me of this graph Firebug is just brilliant Click on the comments button to see...

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Darik’s Boot And Nuke Disk Shredder ( 7 /10 )

I use this software to wipe hard drives of all data. This is a slightly controversial area but as best I can tell Darik's Boot And Nuke Disk Shredder seems to be well regarded. Darik's Boot and Nuke ("DBAN") is a self-contained boot disk that securely wipes the hard...

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Running Notes 8 when you are short of resources

Although the Eclipse notes client is a richer place to work there are times when it would be better to run the simpler basic client . A good example would be if I have several virtual machines running at once on my laptop. Even though you have installed the Standard (...

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Restarting Notes cleanly

Although Notes is much much better about restarting after a crash there are still times when it hangs. A good example for me is when you open the developer help with the script debugger on. People used to use products like KillNotes.exe to restart Notes but since...

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