Platformability

Last Thursday, City Am, London’s free business newspaper teamed up with Global Forex Trading (GFT) in order to offer its readers a free workshop on how to make money. Caplin ...Read More

I spent a very informative time last Wednesday at the first day of this year’s ThoughtWorks Live event. The conference was videoed, so I guess TW will be making ...Read More

May 21st 2011 is supposed to be The Rapture. A few will be saved, whereas the rest will be judged to be unworthy. Google finance has clearly decided it is all over. For the financial sector at least. ...Read More

There's some interesting discussion on the Real-time web Software and Technologies group between Phil Leggetter (ex-Caplin, now Pusher), Frank Greco (Kaazing), Alessandro Alinone (Lightstreamer) and myself. It covers some of the long running issues with terminology in the area ...Read More

I originally posted this series to my blog but I thought it would also make a great addition to Platformability because at Caplin we’re very concerned with understanding our users on a deeper level than just their ...Read More

This year we're presenting three separate sessions at the Software Practice Advancement Conference (SPA)! Read on for a run down of the sessions we'll be leading. ...Read More

Just last week the UX team at Caplin had the fortune of attending UX London 2011, the largest UX conference in the UK, for three days of talks and workshops. Some of the ...Read More

As the financial comet-streaming engine space becomes more commoditised, vendor selection processes for market data distribution and trade capture projects are both becoming more commonplace and more exacting in their functional and non-functional requirements. One typical non-functional requirement ...Read More

I heard a great quote a year or two ago about how software developers always want to reinvent the wheel. Most other scientific disciplines require you to learn from others before building upon what they have done. Sir ...Read More

Breaking Development 2011 (Design and Development for the Mobile Web) is now over. The line up of speakers was excellent with many of the leading voices for the mobile web presenting. Although I didn't attend I was ...Read More