Month: May 2010

Check out Platformability's latest by Caplin QA Manager @andrewjdarnell - Cost of Complexity is Not Linear: http://bit.ly/bQGpmC #RT @sarahlawfull:STOP!*really* find out the prob you're solving b4 u jump in with a ...Read More

One of the questions I brought up on a previous blog - Comet servers for a Single-Dealer Platform - was that of bandwidth. The main thing that affects bandwidth that a Comet server has some control over is message size. ...Read More

I was at the Software Practice Advancement conference (SPA) last week, here are a few of my thoughts from some of the sessions I attended: Phil and I presented Kwwika in the ...Read More

It is very clear that for systems of reasonable complexity (i.e. anything beyond toy examples) that increasing the complexity by ten percent adds far more than ten percent to the time to deliver, and far more than ten percent to the ...Read More

Google going real real-time? latest blog by @martintyler http://bit.ly/9jPb8S #comet #RT @sarahlawfull:relaxing@ #spa2010 after delivering "Persona Driven Development" yest, thx 4 the positive feedback http://bit.ly/a0VG7S ...Read More

A big thank you to all the attendees of our Persona Driven Development (PDD) workshop at SPA 2010.  This was the first ever external lead session of ours and what a great conference for Duncan and I to debut at.  We ...Read More

At the Google I/O developer event a few interesting things have been announced. I blogged earlier this week about Google going real real-time with its Feed API and yesterday they announced some new features in Google App Engine. ...Read More

There's a log of talk about the real-time web these days, but most of it is talking about stuff that isn't really real-time at all. Most of it just means when you access the data it is up to date, or ...Read More

RT @CaplinSystems: Online platforms displace telephone as primary FX trading channel - read more at Finextra: http://bit.ly/d4XTdG #RT @IncMagazine: Ask @timoreilly your questions live right now: http://www.inc.com/live ...Read More

As I mentioned on my previous blog - Comet Servers for a Single-Dealer Platform (SDP) I am performing some new benchmarks for Liberator. These are going to focus on some new things as well as some new figures for our ...Read More