It was that time of the year again for UX designers and engineers to down tools from the usual day-to-day work items and spend 24 hours for the Caplin Hack Day. The theme this year was ‘Simplify and ...Read More
Category: HTML5
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
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
Future of Web Apps – London 2014
As another year of 'FOWA' has drawn to a close, here are my thoughts from the event on the host of interesting topics covered by the excellent speakers. Bruce Lawson evangelises ...Read More
Building Front-End Web Apps that Scale at FOWA London
By now you've probably heard that we've open sourced BladeRunnerJS, the development toolkit that our dev teams - and those of our customers - use to build Caplin Trader-based applications. You probably also know that the toolkit isn't restricted ...Read More
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
Velocity – London 2013
After a thrilling 3 days at the Velocity Conference in London, I've put together this blog to give an overview of the more interesting talks covered in this year's conference. For those whom are unfamiliar ...Read More
Be careful how you apply your hardware accelerated CSS3 transitions
I have been experimenting a lot with HTML5, JavaScript and especially CSS3 on a variety of mobile devices recently. I want the mobile applications that we build with web technologies to continue to provide ...Read More
LXJS 2013 – Day Two
Day two of LXJS started slightly later than planned due to some of the speakers having a little bit too much fun on a boat party the night before (I would like to note that no members of the Caplin team ...Read More
LXJS 2013 – Day One
LXJS is a 2 day, community run, not for profit, international conference with an aim to highlight the new worlds of JavaScript. Day one of the conference started bright and early on a slightly damp morning in Lisbon. Caplin had three people ...Read More