A colleague sent out a link to this article over the weekend - well worth a read. Apparently when ...Read More
2 Minutes: James Betteley
James Betteley has been a Build & Release Manager since 2004. He joined Caplin this past year and now works closely with Caplin’s engineering and quality assurance teams to manage the continuous delivery of our software. ...Read More
Results: What are your favourite server-side languages?
In this poll, our 63 voters cast their votes for their favourite server-side languages, with PHP with out over the other four options. ...Read More
The Psychology of UX: Part 4
Oh, you remembered to come back! So glad to have you as, coincidentally, today’s topic is on MEMORY. This blog was originally posted on my personal blog and you can check it out there too. ...Read More
The Psychology of UX: Part 3
Hello again and welcome back to the Psychology of UX series! Today's topic is all about MISTAKES. But before we begin let's just define... "..a decision or ...Read More
The 50 Commandments of software development
Many years ago I worked for a small software house, Teleca. This was well before the terms "lean" or "agile" were in common use in a software development context. Teleca's founder, Paul Sherwood, ...Read More
Trading front-ends handling a large number of instruments
Yesterday I prepared a client demonstration illustrating how trading front-ends can handle subscriptions to a large number of instruments. Equity derivative and fixed income trading front-ends often display long lists of products from extensive product databases. Front-ends traditionally ...Read More
The Psychology of UX: Part 2
Welcome back to the Psychology of UX series! Today we are going to talk about something that most people think they do very well, but in actuality don't.... MULTI-TASKING. If you are multi-tasking while reading this blog post, ...Read More
Clean Coder
In university we were given various compulsory professional ethics modules, which I considered largely pointless. I still do. Perhaps they should simply have given us a copy of Uncle Bob's new book "The Clean Coder". When it comes ...Read More
iOS5 Web Apps
When Apple released iOS 4.3 there was much talk of the improved Javascript performance due to the new 'Nitro' engine, however, it was soon discovered that Web Apps that were saved to the home screen and launched from there did not ...Read More