Adam Shone

Software Engineer
I've been at Caplin for about three years as a software developer, iteration lead and general jack of all trades. I have a Java background and can usually be found working on the various Xaqua components. I like coffee flavoured chocolate but not coffee.
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Coding, Trading Technology
28 May 2012
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Hack Day Report: Building Custom ExtJS Components for Trading

Hack Day had rolled around once again in the office, and this time our idea was simple but ambitious – could we knock together a tool in 24 hours that would enable developers with no web development experience to create a fully featured web trading application?

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JavaScript
31 Jan 2012
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JavaScript is Hard Part 3: You Can’t Delete With Delete

JavaScript is Hard Part 3: You Can’t Delete With Delete

A puzzle to start things off – what is going on here? The intention is to remove the local version of a from scope so that we can reassign the global version of a to “fish”. Will it work? What will be printed out? a) fish, fish (success) b) fish,…

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JavaScript
18 Jan 2012
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JavaScript is Hard Part 2: The Hidden World of Hoisting

JavaScript is Hard Part 2: The Hidden World of Hoisting

If you are interviewing prospective JavaScript developers and you feel like being a little bit mean then you could do worse than ask this question: In JavaScript, is it possible to call a function before it has been declared?

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Coding, JavaScript
13 Jan 2012
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JavaScript is Hard Part 1: You Can’t Trust Arrays

JavaScript is Hard Part 1: You Can’t Trust Arrays

We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns – there are things we do not know we don’t know. – Donald Rumsfeld, February 2002 I recently had a chance to attend…

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Coding, QA
30 Sep 2010
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A JUnit trick for ensuring SOLID design

A JUnit trick for ensuring SOLID design

Last week I had the chance to attend Jason Gorman’s workshop on SOLID, a set of principles for good object-oriented design. If you want to find out whether your code conforms to one of these five principles (the L, specifically) then there is a nifty trick for testing it easily,…

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News
29 Apr 2010
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New Features in Flex 4, Flash Builder 4, Flash Catalyst and Mosaic (part 2)

New Features in Flex 4, Flash Builder 4, Flash Catalyst and Mosaic (part 2)

In the first part of this blog I covered some of the new features in Flex 4 and Flash Builder 4 as described in a talk by Adobe Technical Evangelist Christophe Coenraets. This part will focus on LiveCycle Collaboration Service, Flash Catalyst, LiveCycle DataServices, and the relatively new LiveCycle Mosaic….

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News
21 Apr 2010
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New Features in Flex 4, Flash Builder 4, Flash Catalyst and Mosaic (part 1)

New Features in Flex 4, Flash Builder 4, Flash Catalyst and Mosaic (part 1)

Last week I attended a talk at Skills Matter by Adobe Technical Evangelist Christophe Coenraets in which he gave us a whirlwind tour of some of the new features available in the latest version of Flex and its ecosystem. There is a video of the event on the website but…

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Agile
16 Feb 2010
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Designing a kanban board – not as simple as you might think

Designing a kanban board – not as simple as you might think

Last month Emin Tatosian posted an article about agile team-board layouts in which he showcases one of our more successful board designs. It’s fair to say that we don’t always get it right first time, so I thought I’d share an example of a layout that seemed to be a…

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