Platformability

I have talked about PubSubHubbub - the not quite real time web previously, but I am still seeing misleading information about PubSubHubbub being posted on the Internet. This post isn't ...Read More

Hello Platformability readers. I want to know what you wonder about while daydreaming (working hard) at your desks. As part of “Work Smarter”, my series of blog posts on the science of work, I have ...Read More

Duncan Brown has been Head of UX Design at Caplin since 2007. Collaborating across Caplin with business and engineering, Duncan has defined and implemented a process to ensure that users have a better and more engaging experience with ...Read More

Here's a little trick that I use to generate seed values for some of our mock components to ensure these values are fairly realistic. Google has a web service that when queried returns a JSON string for calculated ...Read More

It seems that Microsoft has come up with a way to introduce HTML5 WebSocket into Internet Explorer. HTML5 Labs is a Microsoft site providing prototypes for the more unstable aspects of HTML5 and other web standards. What ...Read More

December has certainly been a month of festive cheer here at Caplin. Despite it being one of our busiest months ever, we still managed to get into the swing ...Read More

Coffee is a worldwide phenomenon. Despite absolutely no requirement for it in the human diet, millions of us use it every day. After observing the huge milk and sugar filled cups of a certain coffee chain a venture capitalist famously remarked ...Read More

This is part II to Ressurecting the Jigosaurus written by Andrew Trevorah.The original Jigosaurus contained a single playable image which was cut to puzzle pieces saved on the web server as distinct files. Obviously it wasn’t very exciting to play ...Read More

Wireframing is the way a UX designer expresses their ideas by showing layout, navigation and task flows in a skeleton of a web interface. For a better idea on wireframes, check out the ...Read More

When Caplin announced a HTML5 Hackathon we formed a team of three and decided to use the new technologies in HTML5 to develop a background logger for one of Caplin’s flagship JavaScript libraries- StreamLink for Browsers (SL4B). SL4B provides an API ...Read More