The theme for Hackday XI was 'Talking with Robosaurs' - a focus on artificial intelligence and communication. We created a team from our crack Support desk squad- Toby Catlin, Tom Brook and Andy Fernandes. ...Read More
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Hack Day 2019: release notes linter
Caplin's 2019 Hack Day was held on Thursday 8 November. This year’s theme was ‘Talking With Robosaurs’, and contestants were encouraged to focus their projects on AI or chat-ops. For my project this year, I created an online release-notes linter, to ...Read More
Hack Day 2018 – Algebros Algorithmic Trading
Hack Day 2018 was themed 'Power to the People', which offered a broad spectrum for interpretation. Enter team Algebros, the dynamic trio of Tom Pitts, Bodrul Alam and Jack Cusack. Our mission: to give power to the people - ...Read More
Hack Day 2018: Improving Caplin’s website search
For Caplin Hack Day 2018, 'Power to the People', I set myself the challenge of empowering our users by improving our website's internal search engine. ...Read More
Hack Day 2017: TimeCube
There is not one person I know who loves doing timesheets. The finance team hate chasing us for them and we hate having to itemise our work day. Even worse is when you come in on a Monday morning and have ...Read More
Hack Day 2017: Onwards Defrosted Tuna
Hack Day 2017, ‘Let’s Get Physical’, required that every entry contain a hardware component. To meet this requirement, the 'Onwards Defrosted Tuna' team decided to leverage the Caplin Platform to enable a web application to initiate and terminate calls on a ...Read More
Hack Day 2017: Revolutionising the Office Facilities
As Ian mentioned in his blog post, each project in this year's Hack Day needed a physical aspect to it. Our two man team decided to tackle a serious problem in the Caplin office and revolutionise the office facilities all ...Read More
Hack Day 2017: Publishing website pages to an e-book
Caplin Hack Day 2017 was held at the end of November. The theme was ‘Let’s get physical’ -- every project had to have a hardware component. For my project this year, I set myself the challenge of exporting the online documentation for ...Read More
Hack Day Project – Project SSS
Sometimes you need to convey a lot of complex information in a easily digestible manner. Something that gives an indication of state without getting bogged down in the nitty gritty. The FTSE 100 is a good example of this. A single ...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