For this season's hack day our team, Jack Cusack, Harry Hornby and myself, decided to focus on reducing the complexity and improving the transparency of price administration of an FX trading system without reducing or restricting the functionality, and having any ...Read More
Tag: JavaScript
Be careful how you apply your hardware accelerated CSS3 transitions
I have been experimenting a lot with HTML5, JavaScript and especially CSS3 on a variety of mobile devices recently. I want the mobile applications that we build with web technologies to continue to provide ...Read More
Understanding JavaScript – part II.
We have discussed in the previous article what functions are. Let's continue our discovery and find out the important attributes of functions. As you have seen in the previous article, a function does not ...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
Callback hell is a design choice.
Repeated comments and blog posts about the "callback hell" problem in JavaScript on sites such as HN and Reddit have really baffled this JavaScript programmer. Callback hell is where you call an asynchronous function which provides the ...Read More
Dart: did Google miss the bull’s-eye?
The vocal portions of the Web that care about such things seem to have already made up their minds about Dart, the new web programming language from Google. My opinion of it has ...Read More
What I Learnt at SPA 2011
After weeks of keen anticipation, not to mention many long nights of preparation for my own session, SPA 2011 has now been and gone.Overall it was an excellent conference with a great group of attendees. The numerous inter-session conversations I ...Read More
Windows 8 with HTML5/JavaScript apps
Microsoft have previewed Windows 8 at the D9 conference, including a video showing it off. It seems like a slightly crazy mix of backwards compatibility and some quite cool new ideas that are meant to be suitable for ...Read More
HTML5 Toolkits for Complex Web Applications
At Caplin, we build very complex web applications for financial trading, and we are often asked for advice about which of the many JavaScript toolkits out there are the best. Embarking on developing a web application can be ...Read More