Go Up Not Down
Burn down charts are used a lot in giving a visual idea of the velocity of team; what has been done, what is yet to be done and an estimation of what we are likely to achieve by the end of the project. However, there seems to be a major…
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Hack Day Report: Building Custom ExtJS Components for Trading
Hack Day had rolled around once again in the office, and this time our idea was simple but ambitious – could we knock together a tool in 24 hours that would enable developers with no web development experience to create a fully featured web trading application? Our Plan Caplin hack…
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Getting started with ClojureScript
ClojureScript is a Clojure to JavaScript compiler which has gained a considerable amount of traction since its release in July of last year. It provides a way for developers to write a web-application in a large subset of Clojure and then compile it to JavaScript with the help of the…
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Automating your VMware farm with PowerCLI
At Caplin, we have 7 ESX 4.0 data stores, filled to the brim with Linux and Windows VMs. We use these VMs to test and deploy artifacts from many different projects, all under the management of a Thoughtworks GO server. It’s vital for our continuous integration strategy to work, that…
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SCALING AGILE – THE WORLD IS ALL THAT IS THE CASE
THE WORLD IS ALL THAT IS THE CASE There’s a flurry of activity when projects kick off, resources have to be marshalled and often teams need to be informed of a good deal of information around the thinking behind the work at hand. As that ship leaves port upon its…
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