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
Category: Coding
Welcome to Caplin Labs!
Caplin Labs are open! We invite you to take a moment to visit the labs and check out the current lab projects. ...Read More
Callback hell is a design choice.
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
SuperSelector – A JavaScript GUI tool to generate CSS selectors
SuperSelector is a lightweight JavaScript GUI tool to help you generate 'smart' CSS selectors by simply Ctrl + Clicking anywhere on a web page. Easy to use - ...Read More
Testing by Contract in StreamLink JS
StreamLink for Browsers (SL4B) is the JavaScript library that we use to stream data from our server-side Liberator to our client side applications. It provides a simple API for client applications to interact with the financial (or other) data that they ...Read More
WebDriver, Chrome and Comet Servers
After spending about 3 hours of my day smashing my head against a really tricky little problem in WebDriver I thought I better just write a quick blog to try and warn other weary travellers. ...Read More
Event Hub – Pub/Sub in the browser
Today, I'd like to talk about EventHub, our in-browser publish/subscribe system. EventHub does a very similar thing to OpenAjax Hub, but for slightly different reasons. Whereas OpenAjax Hub is designed to allow mash-ups of co-operating components from different sites, EventHub ...Read More
Microsoft Surface : A new platform for mobile HTML5 apps?
Today is launch day for Windows 8 and the many laptop / tablet hybrids that will come along with it. The slightly in your face metro UI is a big gamble for MS but it certainly looks touch friendly so I ...Read More
Hack Day Report: Building Custom ExtJS Components for Trading
Hack Day had rolled around once again in the office, and this time our idea was simple but ambitious - could we knock together a tool in 24 hours that would enable developers with no web development experience to create a ...Read More
Getting started with ClojureScript
ClojureScript is a Clojure to JavaScript compiler which has gained a considerable amount of traction since its release in July of last year. It provides a way for developers to write a web-application in a large subset ...Read More