Archive of Financial Ajax
Silverlight 4 – Is it what banks want?
Where is Microsoft going with Silverlight? There is no ambiguity in Microsoft’s intentions to contend with AJAX and Adobe Flash in the RIA space; Friday’s Silverlight 4 release includes me-too features such as enhanced video streaming capabilities aimed at internet broadcasters, better device handling including web-cam, microphone, mouse wheel and…
Read MoreDuncan: On The Impossible Bloomberg Makeover
Check out this great article from Dominique Leca over at UX Magazine: The Impossible Bloomberg Makeover It includes some concepts from IDEO who submitted a redesign proposal back in 2007… The comments are also interesting and focus on the fact that to an outsider Bloomberg might ‘look’ ugly, but to the actual ‘Bloomberg…
Read MoreStreamlink for Silverlight for Mobile
With the recent release of Caplin’s Streamlink for Silverlight it’s exciting to find out that Microsoft plan to release a Silverlight for Mobile devices. The goal of Silverlight is to provide a consistent experience across desktop and mobile phones. Developers will be able to easily optimize Silverlight applications for mobile…
Read MoreSilverlight for single dealer portals?
Could it be that the time for Silverlight in finance has come? Does Adobe Flex solve any of the complexities of building web applications? Where does Caplin Trader fit in to this landscape? These are all questions that I am hearing (and asking) increasingly at the moment – so here’s…
Read MoreWelcome to the Caplin Systems Tech Blog
Caplin Systems has been building pioneering real-time web technology for financial markets since 2000. During this time we’ve come up with a lot of very clever solutions to very difficult problems across a broad range of technologies and problem domains. The purpose of this blog is to give our team…
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