We are excited to be participating in the FinTech Hackathon in New York City on April 6-7. The goal of the FinTech Hackathon is to promote the development ...Read More
Callback hell is a design choice.
Repeated comments and blog posts about the "callback hell" problem in JavaScript on sites such as HN and Reddit have really baffled this JavaScript programmer. Callback hell is where you call an asynchronous function which provides the ...Read More
QCon 2013 – Day three – end of day review
So it's over. 3 days and 3 nights at Qcon London. That's a lot of software conversations. Here's the round up from Caplin on Day 3. Ward Cunningham was the inventor of the wiki ...Read More
QCon 2013 – Day two – end of day review
Day 1 ended… late. We finished at midnight after the Atlassian guys threw a party with free beer, foosball and a lot of socialising with fellow geeks. Even though it seems like the whole BBC dev team are here they are ...Read More
QCon 2013 – Day one – End of day review
We're at the first day of QCon London 2013. It's big. The opening keynote was attended by a couple of thousands and there's an iPhone ...Read More
QCon 2013 – Day 1
Morning quick update: A couple of talks we've seen this morning on Java EE 7 and iOS Testing for Banks, as well as the keynote from Barbara Liskov on the history of programming methodology. Further details on these ...Read More
2 Minutes: Mark Cossey
Mark Cossey has been Senior User Experience Designer at Caplin since June, 2012. Mark takes two minutes to tell Jennifer Reid a little bit more about his experience at Caplin and what UX means to him. ...Read More
SuperSelector – A JavaScript GUI tool to generate CSS selectors
SuperSelector is a lightweight JavaScript GUI tool to help you generate 'smart' CSS selectors by simply Ctrl + Clicking anywhere on a web page. Easy to use - ...Read More
Testing by Contract in StreamLink JS
StreamLink for Browsers (SL4B) is the JavaScript library that we use to stream data from our server-side Liberator to our client side applications. It provides a simple API for client applications to interact with the financial (or other) data that they ...Read More
WebDriver, Chrome and Comet Servers
After spending about 3 hours of my day smashing my head against a really tricky little problem in WebDriver I thought I better just write a quick blog to try and warn other weary travellers. ...Read More