Archive of Events
Insights from Web Directions Conference
A few weeks ago, two members of our UX team (Rafael and myself) had the privilege of attending the Web Directions @Media 2011 conference for two days of talks on all things web. The range of speakers who drew in ideas from tangent subjects, like history, product design and even…
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Teamwork and Social Processes in Design: the Design Jam Events
Below are some thoughts on the experience of Design Jams, I’ve been to three events so far, two in London and one in Oxford. Design Jams are one-day events where designers get together to learn and collaborate, the events are run by local volunteers and all results are shared under…
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GFT’s free workshop on CFDs and currency trading
Last Thursday, City Am, London’s free business newspaper teamed up with Global Forex Trading (GFT) in order to offer its readers a free workshop on how to make money. Caplin are not ones to pass up on this type of information. So last Thursday I went down to the rather…
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Thoughtworks Live 2011 – Continuous Deployment
I spent a very informative time last Wednesday at the first day of this year’s ThoughtWorks Live event. The conference was videoed, so I guess TW will be making the conference material available in due course. Here’s my take on what was presented: Adaptive Leadership: Accelerating Organisational Agility Presented by…
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Caplin presents at SPA 2011
This year we’re presenting three separate sessions at the Software Practice Advancement Conference (SPA)! Read on for a run down of the sessions we’ll be leading. Professional JavaScript – Tues, June 14 – 09:00-11:45 Run by Richard Chamberlain & James Turner This session takes developers from a simple .js file…
Read More3 Things We Learned @UX London 2011
Just last week the UX team at Caplin had the fortune of attending UX London 2011, the largest UX conference in the UK, for three days of talks and workshops. Some of the biggest names in the industry from all over the world came and shared their insights. It was…
Read MoreComing Soon: Platformability gets a facelift!
Hello Platformability Readers, Good news—we will soon be having a facelift here with Platformability getting an entirely new, fresh look. After several years of running the blog we thought it was the right time to move forward with a new appearance to improve readability and make it easier to follow your…
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Multimedia on the Web/Using HTML5 Sensibly Review
Last night I had the pleasure of attending two excellent HTML5 presentations by Christian Heilmann, organised by the London Ajax User Group and hosted by Skills Matter eXchange. The first focussed on multimedia, specifically what HTML5′s video and audio tags provide us. The second was about how we need to…
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