Category: hackday

Caplin held its 2019 hack day on the 8th of November. The theme was ‘Talking with Robosaurs’, and encouraged projects with a focus on AI, chat and messaging. Focusing on the messaging theme, Adam Iley, Andy Lyons, and Andy Voneshen grouped ...Read More

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

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 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

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

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, ‘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

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

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

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