A nice sunny morning in London started with a very interesting Keynote on Artificial Intelligence. Peter Morgan gave an introduction into Intelligence and its types. It was fascinating to see what areas of science and physics are needed ...Read More
Category: Coding
Caplin at Silicon Milkroundabout
Last Sunday, Caplin attended the Silicon Milkroundabout in the Old Truman Brewery, near Brick Lane. Mike, John, Pat and Jana presented Caplin's technology and spoke with a lot of IT professionals about the exciting opportunities available at Caplin. For ...Read More
Microsecond time-stamp logging for MiFID II
From 3 January 2018, the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II) introduces new requirements for the granularity of transaction-event time-stamps. This means that under certain circumstances an application will ...Read More
Debugging mocked Kotlin objects
The Caplin Integration Team has recently started creating our latest set of adapters used for internal testing and demos. For this version of our mock adapters we opted to go with Kotlin as our primary language. This has ...Read More
Dev Week: Money Market POC
It is quite common in the Caplin Integration Team to write Proof of Concepts (POC) where we usually write adapter code that we integrate with new systems. For my ...Read More
Hackday: Live Coding Music
This was Julien's hackday project. This year, Caplin Hack Day's theme was titled 'Into the Unknown'. Basically, we were allowed to do anything as long as it was something new.So I did what everyone ...Read More
Screenplay Pattern – a SOLID alternative pattern to Page Objects
This blog is based on the talk presented by Antony Marcano on Screenplay pattern, in Selenium conference 2016. I have also looked into some tutorials online (listed at the end), which also contributes to some contents below and my better ...Read More
Jenkins Output Navigator – Hackday Project
The theme for the hackday VII was "Simplify and Scale".My colleague Daniel Owen and I decided to produce something to simplify our lives as QAs at Caplin. Andy Berry was also on hand and kind enough to ...Read More
JAX London
I attended this years JAX London conference from the 13th to the 14th October in the Business Design Centre, Islington, which is a nice building within the surrounding area of buzzing Angel. JAX London is a 2 day conference ...Read More
Caplin Hack Day VII – Ninjatron Analytics
It was that time of the year again for UX designers and engineers to down tools from the usual day-to-day work items and spend 24 hours for the Caplin Hack Day. The theme this year was ‘Simplify and ...Read More