At Caplin, dev days offer an opportunity for engineers to take a break from their routine tasks, to delve into a side project or experiment with a new technology. During my recent dev day, ...Read More
Category: JavaScript
JSWorld 2023 Recap
A few weeks ago I had the good fortune to attend JSWorld in Amsterdam, one of the world’s leading conferences focused on JavaScript web development. This was my first time attending a tech conference and it was a great experience. The ...Read More
Making the most of Cypress.io
Here at Caplin, we loosely adhere to the principles of the testing pyramid. That is, we limit the number of tests that are typically time consuming (to write, run and maintain) and ...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
Caplin Hack Day VII – Ninjatron Analytics
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
Hackday VI: Caplin Tailor
Twice a year Caplin developers, designers and business analysts have the opportunity to down tools on their projects and work on an idea or concept of their own during a 24 hour Hack Day. The theme for this Hack Day was ...Read More
Augmented reality table tennis
https://vimeo.com/111113027 Caplin recently organised the sixth company Hackday, which, we all agree, was the best so far. You can get a ...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