In this new publication on the current state of HTML5, Patrick Myles examines its strengths and weaknesses and discusses strategies for dealing with these. Picking up where Paul Caplin left off in 2012: The Year of HTML5, this fact-filled overview looks ...Read More
Understanding JavaScript – part I.
There are many approaches to learning JavaScript, but only a few of them explain how JavaScript works from the inside. I will demonstrate and highlight the most important features of JavaScript throughout a series of articles about how to use the ...Read More
Developing for IE8: inline-block resize bug
At Caplin we don't need to support the ancient Internet Explorer 6 & 7 browsers, which makes development a lot easier, but IE8 still has some bugs to make life difficult. On a recent project we found an annoying one affecting ...Read More
Human Behaviour @ Behavioural Design Conference
Caplin Systems gave me the opportunity to attend my first conference in London last Friday; it was “Nudgestock” at Digital Shoreditch. The topic, ‘Behavioural Design’, has always interested me, and it ties in with my work at Caplin. It was an ...Read More
How do you test in an agile environment? Part II
Part I of this article addressed how to capture business requirements both with examples to enable everyone in the team to have a shared understanding of requirements, and details to help with designing code and tests. This ...Read More
#DS13
Guy Nicholson opening Digital Shoreditch Caplin's UX team headed to Digital Shoreditch last week to discover what the most innovative and creative businesses in Tech City are doing to keep them ahead in ...Read More
Digital Shoreditch, am I cool enough?
Being sadly beyond growing a “quirky quiff”, I was in two minds as to how I would react to ...Read More
Scotland.JS 2013
https://twitter.com/gr2m/status/332410940979036160/photo/1 Two weeks ago, 9th-10th May, I took some time out from day to day development and went along to Scotland.JS. It was a great two ...Read More
2 minutes: Matthew Baxter
Matthew Baxter joined Caplin as Head of UX Design in December 2012 Leading Caplin’s UX Design team from research through to visual design, Matthew is focused on ensuring Caplin products are appropriate, intuitive, fit for ...Read More
Code Coverage – What is it good for?
Absolutely nothing! Say it again! That is certainly the response I got when I asked an architect about code coverage. And it also seemed to be the conclusion from a long email thread/discussion we had ...Read More