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  2 Minutes: Arthur Smit

  Arthur Smit 4:46 pm on 29th July, 2010 | 0 Permalink | Reply
  

  Q: You definitely add a dash of unique style to the Caplin team! Let me ask the question everyone is dying to ask…..where do you get your shoes?

  A: No… I’m not falling into that one again! Last time a friend of mine asked me, I told him where i’d got them, he went out and bought some as well. Every time we went out we ended up looking like twins. Now we actually phone each other to ask what shoes we are wearing, it’s ridiculous.
  
  Q: In five sentences, tell us what a typical day in the life of a UX designer at Caplin is like….starting with your preferred breakfast in the Caplin kitchen.

  
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  Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-07-25

  CaplinTech 12:55 pm on 25th July, 2010 | 0 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: tech (24), Twitter (23)

  • Google's JavaScript styleguide = good: http://bit.ly/b3zGrp #
  • Software Craftsmanship 2010 is now open for registration http://bit.ly/du6Pqu #sc2010 #
  • RT @sarahlawfull: 10 Most Common Misconceptions About User Experience Design http://bit.ly/vK9i @whitneyhess #UX #

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  So what can you do with Free Liberator?

  Martin Tyler 2:14 pm on 23rd July, 2010 | 0 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: Comet (23), Real-time web (23)

  Last week I was on the panel at the London Ajax Comet event along with a number of other people representing Comet products. Comet servers are nothing new and there are lots of options out there now, some open source, some free, some commercial, and more recently some as a service.

  Some of my blogs relate to Liberator, but I don’t often talk about it directly, explain the different versions or describe what you can do with it.

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  Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-07-18

  CaplinTech 12:55 pm on 18th July, 2010 | 0 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: tech (24), Twitter (23)

  • RT @ajaxian: Strobe; A hot new HTML5-touch startup founded by Charles Jolley: http://bit.ly/blCsau #
  • RT @cometdaily: Reminder, London Comet panel is tonight http://www.meetup.com/londonajax/calendar/13682478/ @london_ajax #
  • Platformability's latest UX post! With design agility must come design ability by @detyro: http://bit.ly/bRqsuq #yam #
  • A good event at the London Ajax group last night: a panel of Comet vendors including @martintyler #comet #
  • Great blog from Michael Feathers about keeping code clean – Festering Code Bases and Budding Code Bases – http://bit.ly/dBGXwd #yam #
  • RT @martintyler: RT @skillsmatter: Miss the London #cometpanel on Tues? Watch it: http://bit.ly/cmbhXW @dylans @cometdaily @london_ajax #
  • Video of the London Ajax Comet panel has now been posted http://bit.ly/ccMWDu @martintyler @lightstreamer @dylans @cometdaily @london_ajax #
  • RT @martintyler: HTML5 vs Flex – Drawing Curves – interesting figures – http://bit.ly/dpAOCJ #

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  London Ajax Comet Panel video

  Martin Tyler 4:01 pm on 15th July, 2010 | 0 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: ajax (13), Comet (23)

  The video of the London Ajax Comet panel has now been posted along with some slides.. also Dylan has posted some photos he got an audience member to take too.

  Here are the links:

  Video/Slides: http://skillsmatter.com/podcast/ajax-ria/comet-panel/zx-486

  Photos: http://flickriver.com/photos/dylans/sets/72157624493006656/

  Now you can see what a bunch of Comet vendor geeks look like!

  Thanks again to Dylan and Skillsmatter for hosting the event.
   
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  London Ajax Comet Panel

  Martin Tyler 9:09 am on 14th July, 2010 | 1 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: Comet (23), WebSocket (9)

  An interesting event last night that I mentioned recently.

  Thanks to Dylan for organising the event, and thanks to the other panelists for taking part. It was good to finally meet Alessandro from Lightstreamer, and its good to see the various open projects talking about their technology too. A couple of guys from Nirvana were in the audience and we had a good chat down the pub afterwards.

  Everyone on the panel seemed to have similar views on WebSocket, although some have implemented it and some have not.

  I’ll post a link to the video and slides when they are available soon.
   
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    Alessandro 10:52 am on 15th July, 2010 Permalink | Reply
    

    Martin, it was my pleasure to see you. The panel was really a great opportunity to put some faces on most Comet representative names.

    -Alessandro

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  With design agility must come design ability

  Duncan 5:00 pm on 13th July, 2010 | 2 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: Agile (14), Design (7), User Experience (12), UX (14)

  Why Agile UX is Meaningless without an Agile Attitude

  This is an interesting post by Anders Ramsay.

  I definitely think design agility is an important skill, I think it goes without saying that if you do not have agility then you are not agile, but I also think that design ability is also just as important for agile teams.

  Sometimes when we need to produce ‘presentable’ wireframes to show a client complex interactions in an animatic we’ll spend some time polishing them up; but lately we have just been scanning in rough sketches. It makes it much more obviously ‘unfinished’ and definitely leads to looser design discussions.

  Often when we need to resolve design issues that come-up ‘in sprint’ we will have a quick chat with the team and produce a 10 second sketch to facilitate the design solution, job done. This is design agility to me. It does depend on the development team having at least some design ability though – luckily at Caplin our devs are all cool techreatives at heart.

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    Sholom Sandalow 7:21 pm on 13th July, 2010 Permalink | Reply
    

    In my humble opinion there is no such thing as true ‘design’, a creative process of solving a problem from scratch. Even though we may think we are designing something, we aren’t. Everything from the problem we think we are trying to solve, to the concepts we create to solve them, to the tools we use to implement the solution, are all products of evolution–gradual change over many iterations, based on environmental feedback. Agile is simply a concession of this point, and a process to take advantage of it (by speeding it up).

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      Duncan 10:45 am on 14th July, 2010 Permalink | Reply
      

      Thanks for your comments Sholom. Your thinking takes us to a whole other philosophical level.

      I think the word ‘Design’ has so many different meanings depending on context and background.

      The Wikipedia page on ‘Design’ (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Design) begins with:

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      No generally-accepted definition of “design” exists…
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  Symbian S60 gets Microsoft's Silverlight rival to Flash

  Michael Poston 2:55 pm on 12th July, 2010 | 0 Permalink | Reply
  

  David Meyer from ZDNet UK has posted “Symbian S60 gets Microsoft’s Silverlight rival to Flash“.

  Silverlight is now supported on mobile devices before even the release of Windows Phone Series 7. As Single Dealer Platforms grow to focus more on mobile devices (we’ve worked on trading, pricing and alerting projects on more conventional mobile platforms like the Blackberry & iPhone), it’s interesting to see new opportunities with Windows Phone 7 and Silverlight on Symbian. Any standard Silverlight XAP file will run on your Nokia 5800 and N97 handset without changes, meaning Silverlight can now be used as a framework for building high powered trading workstations on mobile devices.
   
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  Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-07-11

  CaplinTech 12:55 pm on 11th July, 2010 | 0 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: tech (24), Twitter (23)

  • 1st Platformability post of the week-A singular state of mind. Read Tammy's thoughts on technological singularity: http://bit.ly/avkF5g #yam #
  • London AJAX user group Comet Panel – next Thursday evening, (July 13th) @ 18:30 – register here: http://bit.ly/bLtJet #
  • Martin Tyler from Caplin will be on the panel & there is a Google Moderator page up to post questions: http://bit.ly/97z9wF #
  • Tammy talks technological singularity on Platformability: http://bit.ly/dBJC5i #
  • Platformability interviews @martintyler ahead of next week's London AJAX User Group Comet Panel: http://bit.ly/bIBbnr #
  • RT @bbctech:Google boss Eric Schmidt says he expects the internet giant to be granted a new licence to operate in China http://bit.ly/blqZEq #

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  2 Minutes: Martin Tyler

  Jennifer 12:22 pm on 8th July, 2010 | 0 Permalink | Reply
  

  Martin Tyler has been a Chief Software Architect at Caplin since 1997. Next week Martin sits on the panel of Skillmatter’s London AJAX User Group Comet Panel (July 13th). Click here to register for the event.

  Q: Firstly, the important stuff: iPhone, Blackberry or Android?

  MT: iPhone 4 for me

  Q: Biggest contribution to Caplin?

  MT: I’ve had a hand in most things, but writing Liberator is probably the biggest single achievement.

  Q: Favourite blog post you’ve written on Platformability?

  MT: I’m not sure about ‘favourite’ but Why we don’t need HTML5 WebSocket gets a lot of hits.

  Q: You’ve been blogging about Comet for some time. What has changed most about Comet since you first started blogging about it, and how does it better support Caplin’s core technology?
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