At Caplin we use the JsUnit framework to test our JavaScript code. Over time we have made minor modifications to it, integrating Mock4JS and JSCoverage, as well as adding a few of our own extensions that are sympathetic ...Read More
Month: January 2010
Ignoring UX could cost you
This is why it's all about the UX and not the UI. Those in the business of developing front-end trading applications - take note. You have got to look beyond the graphics and explore the interaction while ...Read More
Guaranteed Messaging – Don’t believe it
Guaranteed messaging is something that I've covered before from a Comet perspective. It is still mentioned a lot when talking about messaging technology. People using the technology want to know that if they send a message that it will be ...Read More
Livescribe – as tool for Contextual Inquiry
Livescribe is a tool I’ve been using for a year or so now within the UX team here at Caplin, to capture notes from design meetings and ongoing UCD contextual inquiries. It’s a ...Read More
An agile team-board layout that works for us, for now.
As a team lead, the first time I was tasked with preparing a team-board, I set out to learn from how others had laid out theirs first. I started with a study of various layouts in our office and then searched ...Read More
Would a setMonth() by Any Other Method Name be as Sweet?
On 31st December 2009 a unit test that had been running successfully in the Caplin continuous integration environment for two months suddenly started failing. The test in question created a JavaScript Date object, modified it using various setter ...Read More