Stories and Story Maps (Story Maps part 1)

Here at Caplin we use and are constantly evaluating Agile practices and techniques that make software development and maintenance as efficient as possible. In particular to the practice of BDD, which ‘utilises stories ...Read More

The WHY of WAT

Recently a talk given by Gary Bernhardt at CodeMash has been doing the rounds.  In it, he pokes fun at some apparently crazy behaviours in Ruby and Javascript. ...Read More

Caplin Thrower – Mobile Hackday Project

While the rise of internet-capable mobile devices has solved a lot of problems, it has also brought a host of new problems with it. One problem you may encounter is that as your customers are now using multiple devices to access ...Read More

Testing Asynchronous JavaScript with Jasmine

For many applications, when you call a method the effect is immediate. For example calling a method like showErrorMessage("Error") will instantly update the page to give feedback to the user. However, not all applications are this simple. Caplin ...Read More

Scaling JavaScript

When your JavaScript codebase consists of a couple of functions to do image rollover and form validation, then javascript seems like an extremely easy language.  It has relatively little bureaucracy for getting simple things done, an extremely useful literal notation for ...Read More