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
Is the future of trading more transparent, social and sharable in nature like other upcoming Fintech disruptors?
We got an opportunity at Activate London 2014 organized by the Guardian, to learn about emerging, game changing trends in the financial domain.The core topic of discussion was around the changes happening in ...Read More
Find bugs automatically with Git and BladeRunnerJS
Fixing bugs is often a long and frustrating process. Especially if a bug sneaked into the code base some time ago, it's not really obvious and has only now been discovered by accident. Sometimes developers will just fix a bug and ...Read More
Devoxx 2014
Two talks caught my eye on the schedule for Devoxx 2014, and I couldn't wait to get to them. John Smart was over from Australia to talk about testing (and ...Read More
Your first line of code is feature code
This was our goal when first developing BladeRunner internally. And it has remained our goal since, and as we have transformed the project into the BladeRunnerJS open source project. Building large webapps requires consistency, and the ability to ...Read More
Testbash 3
There were two days of workshops ahead of the conference day, and a 'Meetup' on the Thursday evening, which meant attendance at the 6.30am run by the pier was limited to 10 of the several hundred QAs and testers in attendance. ...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
Using JavaScript to program an Arduino
We have a great culture of innovation here at Caplin. That's why we regularly organise hack days and encourage people to take dev days to work on new and cool technologies. We ...Read More
QCon 2014 – day 3
The third and final day of this years QCon, and everything seemed a little subdued and quiet. Perhaps because of the conference party last night? The keynote was looking to the future, and what the next set of disruptive technologies might ...Read More