On this years Caplin Hackday we decided to rewrite the timesheet tool used by the company to track time spent on projects and in general. The current timesheet can be very user unfriendly at times. For example when the user ...Read More
Category: Coding
Caplin Hack Day VII – MarketLens by McRitlain
Periodically, the whole of the engineering team have a Hack Day at Caplin. Teams of up to four have 24 Hours straight to produce something new, innovative and cool. This time we decided to produce a new way of visualising ladders ...Read More
Embracing Node.js
Repost from bladerunnerjs.org/ James Turner on 13 Dec 2013 In the last couple of years Node.js has exploded onto the web development stage. (I’m going to assume that you are familiar with Node.js. If you’re not, and you’re doing ...Read More
Review: 24 Hours With The Play Framework
One of the more fun opportunities that a hack day provides (apart from the unlimited pizza and beer) is the chance to try out technologies and tools that we don't get to use ...Read More
The good, the JNI and the JNA
In Caplin we constantly work on improving our products, feature as well as technology wise. In order to evaluate new things, we are allowed to take one dev-day every two weeks to look into technologies we like or think might be ...Read More
Hackday VI: Caplin Tailor
Twice a year Caplin developers, designers and business analysts have the opportunity to down tools on their projects and work on an idea or concept of their own during a 24 hour Hack Day. The theme for this Hack Day was ...Read More
Hack Day VI: Lo-Fi Mobile
Every six months, Caplin hold a Hack Day. Widely popular among staff, it is a time when developers can unleash their creativity for 24 hours and pursue personal ideas for fun and prizes. No business case need be made for an ...Read More
Augmented reality table tennis
https://vimeo.com/111113027 Caplin recently organised the sixth company Hackday, which, we all agree, was the best so far. You can get a ...Read More
HackDay 6 – Hack-o-ween roundup
Last Friday saw another 24-hour coding-fest at Caplin HQ. All engineering staff were asked to form teams for a start on Thursday lunchtime and build something cool to demo on Friday afternoon. For a number of people furiously working on their ...Read More
Find bugs automatically with Git and BladeRunnerJS
Fixing bugs is often a long and frustrating process. Especially if a bug sneaked into the code base some time ago, it's not really obvious and has only now been discovered by accident. Sometimes developers will just fix a bug and ...Read More