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  • HTML5 vs Flash - The Saga Continues

    Ian Alderson 12:58 pm on 30th April, 2010 | 2 Permalink | Reply
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    Yesterday there were a couple of important posts that have reignited the fire under the HTML5 vs Flash debate. The first was Thoughts On Flash from Apple CEO Steve Jobs. The second was the riposte from Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen, via Alan Murray’s exclusive interview, Highlights: The Journal’s Exclusive Interview With Adobe CEO.

    Unsurprisingly these views have propagated around the Internet like wildfire. For a long while there have been claims and counter claims about HTML5 signalling the death of Flash, however this is the first time that someone in Jobs’ position has taken such a firm position.

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  • New Features in Flex 4, Flash Builder 4, Flash Catalyst and Mosaic (part 2)

    Adam Shone 4:30 pm on 29th April, 2010 | 0 Permalink | Reply
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    In the first part of this blog I covered some of the new features in Flex 4 and Flash Builder 4 as described in a talk by Adobe Technical Evangelist Christophe Coenraets.

    This part will focus on LiveCycle Collaboration Service, Flash Catalyst, LiveCycle DataServices, and the relatively new LiveCycle Mosaic. We also saw an example of what a Flex financial trading application could look like.

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  • New Features in Flex 4, Flash Builder 4, Flash Catalyst and Mosaic (part 1)

    Adam Shone 3:47 pm on 21st April, 2010 | 0 Permalink | Reply
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    Last week I attended a talk at Skills Matter by Adobe Technical Evangelist Christophe Coenraets in which he gave us a whirlwind tour of some of the new features available in the latest version of Flex and its ecosystem. There is a video of the event on the website but if you don’t have 90 minutes to spare then here is the first of a two part recap. There was plenty of interesting stuff for developers and UX designers – in this first part I will cover data service introspection, new state syntax, new transition syntax and skinning with the new UI control model. Part two will focus on trading, LiveCycle Data Services, LiveCycle Collaboration Services, Catalyst and Mosaic.

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  • Silverlight 4 - Is it what banks want?

    Michael Poston 9:23 am on 19th April, 2010 | 1 Permalink | Reply
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    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 right-click support, together with enhanced animation capabilities such as hardware accelerated transforms and rotations.  

    Yet the capital markets want more than a Microsoft version of Flash, and fulfilling their additional business requirements is where Silverlight 4 looks to shine.

    When banks build single-dealer portals they need an application framework that leverages existing skills so that client offerings can be created quickly, deployed easily, and rolled out to clients en masse. The integration and functional requirements on application frameworks across pre-trade, deal-capture and post-trade are varied and not usually completely solved by any single vendor implementation or framework.

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  • Silverlight and Flex versus Ajax

    Phil Leggetter 12:32 pm on 21st December, 2009 | 0 Permalink | Reply
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    On November 10th Caplin and Finextra sponsored a webcast discussing issues surrounding single-dealer portals in capital markets. We have the highlights and while much of the discussion was purely business focused, part III discusses the emergence of Ajax versus Flex and Silverlight. It’s a very interesting topic and there’s been much debate over which RIA technology will dominate with various ways of looking at what determines technology choice.

    From a business point of view the conversation gets interesting when Kevin Bourne asks “do you not want to see a point where people want 100% of the choice but all out of the can with a library of applications that they can then tailor much more specifically to what they want to deliver to their clients?”

    You can see the other highlight videos on the Caplin Systems You Tube Channel.

    You can also download a full transcript of the event:
    Buyers Market – Single Dealer Portals and Courting the Online Client

     

  • Scaling Flex for enterprise applications

    Martin Tyler 4:32 pm on 22nd October, 2009 | 2 Permalink | Reply
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    Last night Phil Leggetter and I attended a session on Scaling Flex applications run by Skillsmatter. The video of the event has now been posted.

    We found this interesting as we as a company have entered the world of Flex. Our product is a Flex library API, which is part of our Caplin Xaqua offering, whereas the session discussed creating a Flex GUI application. It was good to see that there are a number of powerful Flex application frameworks and that they could easily be leveraged to use our library. The talk covered frameworks, modularisation techniques and tools that have been used by Lab49 in the various Flex projects they have been involved in.

    Borre Wessell of Lab49, who gave the talk, also covered their agile development process, which sounds fairly similar to ours even though they do more consultancy and we do a mix of consultancy and product work.

    It was also interesting that Borre recommended using Flash Builder 4 beta as we also found that was better with its integrated unit testing and other productivity enhancements. Tool support does seem a bit lacking in some areas for Flex – whilst there is a memory profiler as part of Flash Builder 4 the performance testing seems to be very much a manual process. We prefer to have performance tests as part of our automated processes so you can catch any regressions as early as possible.

    Next week I will post my followup to my previous post about streaming technologies, which will touch on the LCDS approach compared to Caplin’s methods.

     

  • Silverlight for single dealer portals?

    Patrick Myles 11:35 am on 9th June, 2009 | 0 Permalink | Reply
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    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 how I see it…

    There has been a big push from Adobe towards using Flex (and to a lesser extent LiveCycle Data Services – their messaging product) for trading portals and you can certainly build a flashy offering, as can be seen in the recent launch of Morgan Stanley’s Matrix.

    But questions still remain over the ease of development and deployment of such a large-scale enterprise application, and though the Flex Builder seems to make this easier, digging beneath the surface can make for a frustrating experience, as Alex Vandeberg’s excellent analysis recently described.

    Could Silverlight be an answer to this?

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