Archive of Mobile
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 great guys and we shared a lot of ideas….
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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. This tried and tested workflow has been good to…
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Microsoft Surface : A new platform for mobile HTML5 apps?
Today is launch day for Windows 8 and the many laptop / tablet hybrids that will come along with it. The slightly in your face metro UI is a big gamble for MS but it certainly looks touch friendly so I am very keen to give it a go on…
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Money Phone
Having gone to the ‘Internetworld 2012′ event, there seems to be a clear emerging trend for mobiles, which should come as no surprise. We are all going to be using our phones to pay for things from now on. Phoney Barclaycard has a rather strange solution to this that they…
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Caplin Thrower – Mobile Hackday Project
While the rise of internet-capable mobile devices has solved a lot of problems, it has also brought a host of new problems with it. One problem you may encounter is that as your customers are now using multiple devices to access your service, they are having to continuously switch context…
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The world went HTML5, finally Adobe are catching up!
Yesterday’s announcement by Adobe that they were abandoning Flash for mobile was greeted with almost universal acclaim in the tech blogosphere. Unusually, there weren’t many people surprised or disappointed by the decision. Why? Well, It turns out that Steve Jobs wasn’t just being spiteful to Adobe by preventing Flash from…
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A Tribute to Steve Jobs
It saddened us at Caplin to hear of Steve Jobs’ recent passing, but we’d like to reflect on his achievements and how they have revolutionised the world.
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Caplin Reaver – Hackday Project
Caplin Reaver (name pending review) was a small project created by Neal Dangerfield and myself to explore how to make the XMC (Xaqua Management Console) into a more compelling feature for Caplin Xaqua. The XMC is a great tool. It allows developers and administrators to get an in-depth view of…
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