Dominic Chambers

Senior Javascript Developer
Working for Caplin for over 6 years, and one of the original 3 CaplinTrader developers.
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Stuff we like
21 Mar 2013
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Model/View/Caramba

If there’s one thing about MVC, it’s that no two implementations completely agree on how the controller should work. MVC implementors seem to all intuitively understand the concept of a model and a view, and why it’s a good idea to keep them separate, but confusion descends when they get…

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Coding, JavaScript, Software Architecture, Stuff we like
7 Dec 2012
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Event Hub – Pub/Sub in the browser

Today, I’d like to talk about EventHub, our in-browser publish/subscribe system. EventHub does a very similar thing to OpenAjax Hub, but for slightly different reasons. Whereas OpenAjax Hub is designed to allow mash-ups of co-operating components from different sites, EventHub is used to allow apps to be composed from a…

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JavaScript, Stuff we like
25 Oct 2012
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Javascript Interfaces: Putting The Java back into Javascript

Object-oriented is mostly about encapsulation, but it’s also about interfaces and inheritance. However, years of experience have caused most programmers to realize that class inheritance is mostly a bad idea; it breaks encapsulation while increasing cognitive load by introducing cryptic indirection. This is why you’ll often hear the sage advice…

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HTML5, Mobile
22 Feb 2011
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Why iOS isn’t ready for HTML5, yet…

Okay, just teasing! My recent experiences creating an HTML5 based mobile web app for iOS has been, on the whole, very pleasant indeed. However, I recently wrote a similarly tilted article “Why Android isn’t ready for HTML5, yet…” which discussed some far more serious bugs I encountered that prevented me getting…

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HTML5
18 Feb 2011
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Why Android isn’t ready for HTML5, yet…

I recently created an HTML5 based mobile web app, with the aim that it would work on iOS, Android, and all modern desktop browsers. Unfortunately, although the demo was viewed as a success since almost everyone viewing it did so using iPads and iPhones, it was a failure in the…

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HTML5
14 Feb 2011
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Taming the App-Cache

Taming the App-Cache

HTML5 App-Cache can be a boon for developers of Web Applications, provided you understand how it’s meant to be used, and provided you stick to the happy path. Before we look at App-Cache itself, it’s worth first reminding ourselves what the best practices are for HTML4 Web Apps… Traditional HTTP…

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Coding
7 Oct 2010
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Prebake: a recipe for great builds

In his recent post, Java Build Systems: A Sad State of Affairs, Jess Johnson describes the many problems with both Ant and Maven, and how Maven solves none of Ant’s issues, but instead invents a few new ones of its own. But for me, the real of the gem of…

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