Developers increasingly use JSON to represent complex data structures in the Caplin Platform that don't map easily to the field-value pairs of Caplin Platform records. Transporting a JSON object has always been possible by storing the ...Read More
Category: Software Architecture
QCon 2019 – day 2
A nice sunny morning in London started with a very interesting Keynote on Artificial Intelligence. Peter Morgan gave an introduction into Intelligence and its types. It was fascinating to see what areas of science and physics are needed ...Read More
AppiumConf 2018
On 6th April 2018 the first AppiumConf was held. This was the first conference specifically about Appium, the mobile testing tool based on Selenium. Fittingly, the keynote was from two founders of the Appium project. They took us through the brief history of Appium, and ...Read More
JAX London 2017 – Quick summary of the effects of Java 9 Modules on existing code
With version 9 of Java SE, Oracle introduced modules as a result of Project Jigsaw. Here we offer some considerations for existing projects. A smaller Java core offers better security as less code means fewer ...Read More
Review: 24 Hours With The Play Framework
One of the more fun opportunities that a hack day provides (apart from the unlimited pizza and beer) is the chance to try out technologies and tools that we don't get to use ...Read More
The good, the JNI and the JNA
In Caplin we constantly work on improving our products, feature as well as technology wise. In order to evaluate new things, we are allowed to take one dev-day every two weeks to look into technologies we like or think might be ...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
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
Five Ways to Optimise the Journey to ‘Hello World’
Every week, usually on Friday, the JavaScript Weekly and HTML5 Weekly newsletters drop into my inbox. And every week I scan through the list of five or six new libraries ...Read More
Understanding JavaScript – part II.
We have discussed in the previous article what functions are. Let's continue our discovery and find out the important attributes of functions. As you have seen in the previous article, a function does not ...Read More