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
Category: Stuff we like
Hackday – Team Firefly
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
Jenkins Output Navigator – Hackday Project
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
JAX London
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
Caplin Hack Day VII – TimeSheets by TimeWarp
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
How should Investment Banks capitalise on the new Apple Watch for financial trading?
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
Google Drive vs Microsoft Office 365 or “You will take my Excel from me when you pry it from my cold, dead hands”
When we ran a staff survey recently, we were surprised by the deep feelings of affection ...Read More
7 Reasons to like Microsoft Excel over Google Sheets
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
Log into my web trading app using only flashing colours? Yes please!
If you didn’t already know, Hackday is Caplin’s version of a Hackathon. Yes, a gathering of highly gifted software engineers, UX designers and Sales Consultants who break up into teams (or go lone warrior) and code for ...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