Archive of Caplin Trader
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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HTML5 Toolkits for Complex Web Applications
Embarking on developing a web application can be bewildering: there’s no shortage of JavaScript toolkits of all different shapes and sizes but there’s no guiding light. This article attempts to navigate through the maze of toolkits to assist making technology choices when building a web application.
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Testing APIs for Backwards Compatibility
A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about Agile Framework Development and the various techniques that we have used here at Caplin to build our APIs in a way that is sympathetic to agile methodologies. One of the key problems with the iterative development of an API is how to…
Read MoreAdding an Observer to an Observable
The Observer design pattern is used in many applications. If you are unfamiliar with it, or need to remind yourself about the specifics, you can read about it at Wikipedia or MSDN. Caplin Trader even provides a helper class to take care of a lot of the boiler plate code: caplin.core.Observable. The…
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