Category: Work/Life

This article expects that the reader knows the concepts of containers, Liberator and how Liberator serves container subscriptions. Checkout this for more information. In brief, a container object holds a list of record names, which are considered ...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

Permissioning and Entitlement is one of the most critical functions of any financial trading system. Ensuring that your clients are entitled to perform their required actions and denied from all other actions is important not only for security and convenience, but ...Read More

The theme for the hackday VII was "Simplify and Scale".My colleague Daniel Owen and I decided to produce something to simplify our lives as QAs at Caplin. Andy Berry was also on hand and kind enough to ...Read More

I attended this years  JAX London conference from the 13th to the 14th October in the Business Design Centre, Islington, which is a nice building within the surrounding area of buzzing Angel. JAX London is a 2 day conference ...Read More

On this years Caplin Hackday we decided to rewrite the timesheet tool used by the company to track time spent on projects and in general. The current timesheet can be very user unfriendly at times. For example when the user ...Read More

This is a blog post about my 'dev day' For the unitiated, a ‘dev day’ is: … basically a learning day for educators or business professionals.http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-a-professional-development-day.html Yep, it is what it ...Read More

With the launch of the Apple Watch Caplin wanted to board the wearable tech bandwagon. We wanted to ask the questions why and how should a sell side Investment Bank want to use wearable tech? Let’s face ...Read More

When we ran a staff survey recently, we were surprised by the deep feelings of affection ...Read More

Google Sheets is a peerless collaboration tool; Excel is the Swiss army knife of business software. Many staff at Caplin have demanded their right to bear Swiss army knives! To find ...Read More