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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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Dart: did Google miss the bull’s-eye?
The vocal portions of the Web that care about such things seem to have already made up their minds about Dart, the new web programming language from Google. My opinion of it has been flipping between intrigue and tedium. Maybe you don’t even know what I’m talking about so here’s…
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Financial Times Proves HTML5 Can Beat Native Mobile Apps
A colleague sent out a link to this article over the weekend – well worth a read. Apparently when Apple decided that publishers had to hand over 30% of the revenue of apps sold via the iTunes store, the FT decided to take a different route and pull their app…
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Clean Coder
In university we were given various compulsory professional ethics modules, which I considered largely pointless. I still do. Perhaps they should simply have given us a copy of Uncle Bob’s new book “The Clean Coder”. When it comes to how we act as professionals it seems as though there is…
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The world is meant to end tomorrow. For finance?
May 21st 2011 is supposed to be The Rapture. A few will be saved, whereas the rest will be judged to be unworthy. Google finance has clearly decided it is all over. For the financial sector at least. As of 10 minutes ago, this was what the search engine was…
Read MoreCaplin 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…
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3 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 MoreIE10 preview already available!
Before IE9 has started walking and talking, Microsoft have just announced at MIX11 that they are already well underway with the development of IE10 and developers can download the first platform preview release. They are aiming for a September beta, and say it will include some newer HTML5 and CSS3…
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