Two talks caught my eye on the schedule for Devoxx 2014, and I couldn't wait to get to them. John Smart was over from Australia to talk about testing (and ...Read More
Category: Coding
Experimenting with Custom Elements.
As part of Caplin's Hoverboards and Flying Cars (What cool things should we be doing in 2014 and 2015?) hack day our team decided to investigate Custom Elements - a Web Components spec. The ...Read More
Using JavaScript to program an Arduino
We have a great culture of innovation here at Caplin. That's why we regularly organise hack days and encourage people to take dev days to work on new and cool technologies. We ...Read More
Five Ways to Optimise the Journey to ‘Hello World’
Every week, usually on Friday, the JavaScript Weekly and HTML5 Weekly newsletters drop into my inbox. And every week I scan through the list of five or six new libraries ...Read More
JAX London
This was my first year at JAX London, so I cannot compare it to other years, but I must say that my level of satisfaction is quite high. The location was perfectly adequate ...Read More
Understanding JavaScript – part II.
We have discussed in the previous article what functions are. Let's continue our discovery and find out the important attributes of functions. As you have seen in the previous article, a function does not ...Read More
Understanding JavaScript – part I.
There are many approaches to learning JavaScript, but only a few of them explain how JavaScript works from the inside. I will demonstrate and highlight the most important features of JavaScript throughout a series of articles about how to use the ...Read More
Developing for IE8: inline-block resize bug
At Caplin we don't need to support the ancient Internet Explorer 6 & 7 browsers, which makes development a lot easier, but IE8 still has some bugs to make life difficult. On a recent project we found an annoying one affecting ...Read More
Code Coverage – What is it good for?
Absolutely nothing! Say it again! That is certainly the response I got when I asked an architect about code coverage. And it also seemed to be the conclusion from a long email thread/discussion we had ...Read More
FinTech New York Hackathon Round-Up
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