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There is not one person I know who loves doing timesheets. The finance team hate chasing us for them and we hate having to itemise our work day. Even worse is when you come in on a Monday morning and have ...Read More

Hack Day 2017, ‘Let’s Get Physical’, required that every entry contain a hardware component. To meet this requirement, the 'Onwards Defrosted Tuna' team decided to leverage the Caplin Platform to enable a web application to initiate and terminate calls on a ...Read More

As Ian mentioned in his blog post, each project in this year's Hack Day needed a physical aspect to it. Our two man team decided to tackle a serious problem in the Caplin office and revolutionise the office facilities all ...Read More

Caplin Hack Day 2017 was held at the end of November. The theme was ‘Let’s get physical’ -- every project had to have a hardware component. For my project this year, I set myself the challenge of exporting the online documentation for ...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

It was that time of the year again for UX designers and engineers to down tools from the usual day-to-day work items and spend 24 hours for the Caplin Hack Day. The theme this year was ‘Simplify and ...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

Periodically, the whole of the engineering team have a Hack Day at Caplin. Teams of up to four have 24 Hours straight to produce something new, innovative and cool. This time we decided to produce a new way of visualising ladders ...Read More

Every six months, Caplin hold a Hack Day. Widely popular among staff, it is a time when developers can unleash their creativity for 24 hours and pursue personal ideas for fun and prizes. No business case need be made for an ...Read More

Hack Day had rolled around once again in the office, and this time our idea was simple but ambitious - could we knock together a tool in 24 hours that would enable developers with no web development experience to create a ...Read More