Hack Day VI: Lo-Fi Mobile

Every six months, Caplin hold a Hack Day. Widely popular among staff, it is a time when developers can unleash their creativity for 24 hours and pursue personal ideas for fun and prizes. No business case need be made for an ...Read More

HackDay 6 – Hack-o-ween roundup

Last Friday saw another 24-hour coding-fest at Caplin HQ. All engineering staff were asked to form teams for a start on Thursday lunchtime and build something cool to demo on Friday afternoon. For a number of people furiously working on their ...Read More

Future of Web Apps – London 2014

As another year of 'FOWA' has drawn to a close, here are my thoughts from the event on the host of interesting topics covered by the excellent speakers. Bruce Lawson evangelises ...Read More

Velocity – London 2013

After a thrilling 3 days at the Velocity Conference in London, I've put together this blog to give an overview of the more interesting talks covered in this year's conference. For those whom are unfamiliar ...Read More

QCon 2013 – Day two – end of day review

Day 1 ended… late. We finished at midnight after the Atlassian guys threw a party with free beer, foosball and a lot of socialising with fellow geeks. Even though it seems like the whole BBC dev team are here they are ...Read More

Our responsive web design workflow for caplin.com

For years I’ve used the same workflow when designing websites. Standard practice was to start with the content, wireframe, then design pixel perfect page layouts in Photoshop that would then be handed to a developer for the markup to be created. ...Read More