Platformability

Testing in any industry means a product is built and tested. Take for example, a car tested against wet road surfaces or for maximum speed etc. This is known as “Quality Control”. The term “Quality Assurance” however is ...Read More

I recently wrote a post about getting to JQuery UK and the keynote speech with Brendan Eich.  Now I wanted to add the rest of my notes from the conference: Richard Worth was up ...Read More

Plaformability is a rare glimpse into the inner workings of a highly skilled, tightly aligned London based software development team dedicated to creating frameworks for single-dealer platforms (SDPs). We dedicate this blog to writing about the technology that fuels ...Read More

My initial plan to spot someone who looked jqueryey and follow them turned out to be completely unnecessary.  The White October guys doing the organising had strategically placed friendly people with large pointers and painted white rabbits feet on the ground ...Read More

Back in the bad old days, not so very long ago, lots of development teams had to support IE6. One of the major problems of writing large javascript applications in antediluvian versions of Internet Explorer was that memory would leak very ...Read More

After some much needed sleep we're able to reflect on the inspired (and at times manic) hacking that took place this weekend in New York. Over 30 teams presented their demos competing for the grand prize of $10,000 from Novus. ...Read More

4:30PM - Prize for best use of Caplin Technology The winner was a team calling themselves FinGraph - they did an interesting visualization of quoted companies that created a ...Read More

Caplin Labs are open! We invite you to take a moment to visit the labs and check out the current lab projects. ...Read More

At Caplin we use Jira along with Greenhopper to track our issues.The Greenhopper interface provides a good interface for dragging issues through their development cycles, and while we have tried to go "purely digital", using only the web client interface ...Read More

If there's one thing about MVC, it's that no two implementations completely agree on how the controller should work. MVC implementors seem to all intuitively understand the concept of a model and a view, and why it's a good idea to ...Read More