Jonathan Paul

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Agile, Software Development Process
22 Mar 2013
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Jira Agile Card Maker – A tool for converting Jiras to physical cards

At Caplin we use Jira along with Greenhopper to track our issues. The Greenhopper interface provides a good interface for dragging issues through their development cycles, and while we have tried to go “purely digital”, using only the web client interface projected onto a wall, we have found it lacking. Physical…

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Agile, Coding, HTML5, JavaScript, QA, Software Architecture
23 Jan 2013
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Testing by Contract in StreamLink JS

StreamLink for Browsers (SL4B) is the JavaScript library that we use to stream data from our server-side Liberator to our client side applications. It provides a simple API for client applications to interact with the financial (or other) data that they are interested in. StreamLink for Browsers is one of the…

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Coding, HTML5, JavaScript, QA, Software Development Process
4 Jan 2013
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WebDriver, Chrome and Comet Servers

After spending about 3 hours of my day smashing my head against a really tricky little problem in WebDriver I thought I better just write a quick blog to try and warn other weary travellers. Symptom The WebDriver findElements() function was incredibly slow. Sometimes it wouldn’t return, and other times…

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Stuff we like
5 Oct 2012
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Velocity Day 3

And just like that Velocity Europe 2012 comes to an end. And I am completely exhausted. By the end of day 1 my mind was 80% full. By mid way through the opening plenary on the second day it was 100%. Now that it is all over I am going…

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Stuff we like
4 Oct 2012
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Velocity Day 2

Wow, so Day 2 of Velocity has just finished and I can’t help but feel that I went to all the wrong talks. This is meant as a compliment, I can’t believe the amount of talent going on at this conference and it is physically painful having to choose which…

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Stuff we like
3 Oct 2012
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Velocity Day 1

  So the first day of Velocity London 2012 has drawn to an end. And what a day it was. Lots of cool talks, interesting people and plenty of food for thought. Monitoring and Observability Slides I started the day with Monitoring and Observability by @postwait. The talk went over…

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Stuff we like
3 Oct 2012
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Looking ahead to Velocity Day 2

Day 2 of Velocity has just started. After an exhilarating day of tutorials yesterday, we are about to start our first day of talks and  we are all going to have to make some hard choice on which of the awesome talks we go to. As usual, we are having a mix of…

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Coding
22 May 2012
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Getting started with ClojureScript

ClojureScript is a Clojure to JavaScript compiler which has gained a considerable amount of traction since its release in July of last year. It provides a way for developers to write a web-application in a large subset of Clojure and then compile it to JavaScript with the help of the…

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