At Caplin we use Jira along with Greenhopper to track our issues.The Greenhopper interface provides a good interface for dragging issues through their development cycles, and while we have tried to go "purely digital", using only the web client interface ...Read More
Month: March 2013
Model/View/Caramba
If there's one thing about MVC, it's that no two implementations completely agree on how the controller should work. MVC implementors seem to all intuitively understand the concept of a model and a view, and why it's a good idea to ...Read More
Caplin to support FinTech Hackathon NYC
We are excited to be participating in the FinTech Hackathon in New York City on April 6-7. The goal of the FinTech Hackathon is to promote the development ...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
QCon 2013 – Day three – end of day review
So it's over. 3 days and 3 nights at Qcon London. That's a lot of software conversations. Here's the round up from Caplin on Day 3. Ward Cunningham was the inventor of the wiki ...Read More
QCon 2013 – Day two – end of day review
Day 1 ended… late. We finished at midnight after the Atlassian guys threw a party with free beer, foosball and a lot of socialising with fellow geeks. Even though it seems like the whole BBC dev team are here they are ...Read More
QCon 2013 – Day one – End of day review
We're at the first day of QCon London 2013. It's big. The opening keynote was attended by a couple of thousands and there's an iPhone ...Read More
QCon 2013 – Day 1
Morning quick update: A couple of talks we've seen this morning on Java EE 7 and iOS Testing for Banks, as well as the keynote from Barbara Liskov on the history of programming methodology. Further details on these ...Read More
2 Minutes: Mark Cossey
Mark Cossey has been Senior User Experience Designer at Caplin since June, 2012. Mark takes two minutes to tell Jennifer Reid a little bit more about his experience at Caplin and what UX means to him. ...Read More