Year: 2013

After some much needed sleep we're able to reflect on the inspired (and at times manic) hacking that took place this weekend in New York. Over 30 teams presented their demos competing for the grand prize of $10,000 from Novus. ...Read More

4:30PM - Prize for best use of Caplin Technology The winner was a team calling themselves FinGraph - they did an interesting visualization of quoted companies that created a ...Read More

Caplin Labs are open! We invite you to take a moment to visit the labs and check out the current lab projects. ...Read More

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

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

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

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

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

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

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