2 minutes: Vanessa Carey
Vanessa Carey joined Caplin’s fast growing UX Design team in November 2010. With a background in both product design and graphic design, Vanessa is already making big contributions to successful user journeys within Caplin products. Q: We all know what graphic design is, but tell us what product design is….
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Taming the App-Cache
HTML5 App-Cache can be a boon for developers of Web Applications, provided you understand how it’s meant to be used, and provided you stick to the happy path. Before we look at App-Cache itself, it’s worth first reminding ourselves what the best practices are for HTML4 Web Apps… Traditional HTTP…
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SDPs: Native or Browser-based Mobile Apps?
Mobile services is one of the hottest places in the single-dealer platform arena right now as tier 1 investment banks chase the retail banks and online brokerages by providing corporate and institutional mobile offerings. JP Morgan kicked off the race early last year, launching an iPhone version of MorganDirect –…
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Fun with Text Encodings
Now that we are building robust internationalisation support into Caplin Trader, there are numerous testing scenarios that can put pressure on the computer running the tests. To avoid corruption, we need proper operating system support, editor support, and to thoroughly test every system that can access the locale files (eg….
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Multimedia on the Web/Using HTML5 Sensibly Review
Last night I had the pleasure of attending two excellent HTML5 presentations by Christian Heilmann, organised by the London Ajax User Group and hosted by Skills Matter eXchange. The first focussed on multimedia, specifically what HTML5′s video and audio tags provide us. The second was about how we need to…
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