Tag: Software Engineering

The SPA conference is always a great event with lots of interesting sessions and a good mix of people in attendence. Following a succesful session that Andrew MacLeod and I ran at ...Read More

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 ...Read More

Developing portlets can be a frustrating experience, especially if you are used to technologies with lots of helpful information out there on the web.  While lots of people are using portlets, it seems that few are writing about them. What should ...Read More

Mock4JS is a really useful unit testing helper library that allows you to create mocks of your JavaScript classes. What it doesn't presently support is mocking of objects that you can't create an instance of yourself using new Class() or ...Read More

Last week myself and Patrick Myles, Caplin's Head of Engineering, presented a workshop session at the SPA 2009 conference on Testing Ajax Applications through the GUI. The main theme of the talk was to ...Read More

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 ...Read More

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 ...Read More