By now you've probably heard that we've open sourced BladeRunnerJS, the development toolkit that our dev teams - and those of our customers - use to build Caplin Trader-based applications. You probably also know that the toolkit isn't restricted ...Read More
Author: Phil Leggetter
Using Fiddler to help develop cross domain capable JavaScript web applications
This post is going to be short and sweet. “Short” because Fiddler makes working around this problem so simple. And “Sweet” because I think this is really powerful and will allow you to develop applications that show why cross domain ...Read More
Would anybody want StreamLink for Windows Mobile?
After years of promise it really does look like mobile is the next big thing? But what mobile platform will prove to be the most popular? It seems to be a two horse race between iPhone and Android, with Windows Mobile lagging somewhere ...Read More
Silverlight and Flex versus Ajax
On November 10th Caplin and Finextra sponsored a webcast discussing issues surrounding single-dealer portals in capital markets. We have the highlights and while much of the discussion was purely business focused, part III discusses the emergence of Ajax versus Flex and ...Read More
How real-time does real-time have to be?
This post was originally posted on my personal blog on 09/12/2009. Last night, just over 12 hours ago, I attended the Gary Vaynerchuk Crush It event organised by Sprouter in London. I’ve ...Read More
What does Platformability mean to you?
We’ve purposefully not defined exactly what Platformability means. It was conjured up by Duncan based on a number of ideas. To help you decide what Platformability means to you, here are a few things to consider and some of my thoughts about the ...Read More
Streamlink for Silverlight for Mobile
With the recent release of Caplin's Streamlink for Silverlight it's exciting to find out that Microsoft plan to release a Silverlight for Mobile devices. The goal of Silverlight is to provide a consistent experience across desktop ...Read More
What is the ‘real-time web’?
The phrase "real-time web" has been streaming its way around the Internet for a while now. It's presently being used to describe information being available in search results as soon as it has been published by its author. Examples of this ...Read More
How to dynamically create a class definition for use with Mock4JS
Mock4JS is a really useful unit testing helper library that allows you to create mocks of your JavaScript classes. What it doesn't presently support is mocking of objects that you can't create an instance of yourself using new Class() or ...Read More
Welcome to the Caplin Systems Tech Blog
Caplin Systems has been building pioneering real-time web technology for financial markets since 2000. During this time we've come up with a lot of very clever solutions to very difficult problems across a broad range of technologies and ...Read More