Google Sheets is a peerless collaboration tool; Excel is the Swiss army knife of business software. Many staff at Caplin have demanded their right to bear Swiss army knives! To find ...Read More
Review: 24 Hours With The Play Framework
One of the more fun opportunities that a hack day provides (apart from the unlimited pizza and beer) is the chance to try out technologies and tools that we don't get to use ...Read More
Log into my web trading app using only flashing colours? Yes please!
If you didn’t already know, Hackday is Caplin’s version of a Hackathon. Yes, a gathering of highly gifted software engineers, UX designers and Sales Consultants who break up into teams (or go lone warrior) and code for ...Read More
The good, the JNI and the JNA
In Caplin we constantly work on improving our products, feature as well as technology wise. In order to evaluate new things, we are allowed to take one dev-day every two weeks to look into technologies we like or think might be ...Read More
Hackday VI: Caplin Tailor
Twice a year Caplin developers, designers and business analysts have the opportunity to down tools on their projects and work on an idea or concept of their own during a 24 hour Hack Day. The theme for this Hack Day was ...Read More
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
Augmented reality table tennis
https://vimeo.com/111113027 Caplin recently organised the sixth company Hackday, which, we all agree, was the best so far. You can get a ...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
The role of emotions in design: Caplin’s research highlights how user experience cannot be judged by objective criteria alone
Several companies are manufacturing mobile phones and tablets with similar or even superior features to those of Apple. Why then are new Apple product releases preceded by rumours and media frenzy and followed by long queues at their stores? A plastic ...Read More
Further reading for Interact 2014 day 1
What follows is effectively a list of things I wanted to follow up on after hearing at day one of Interact 2014. I then put more words in between the links to contextualise them and share my thoughts. ...Read More