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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-02-14

CaplinTech blog latest: Tammy Sharpe: How we survived WAgile: http://bit.ly/ctidHe #CaplinTech blog update: @ian_alderson on #JavaScript Variable Naming Convention http://bit.ly/9SnUFi #yam #Interesting cross-browser technique for ...Read More

Limiting real time data

When you are loading a web site, or even most fairly advanced RIAs, you are requesting data and getting a response - an HTML page, SWF file, some JSON or XML data etc. How quickly that data is returned to you ...Read More

JavaScript Variable Naming Convention

When I joined Caplin 10 years ago I came from a company that used Hungarian notation to name its C++ and Visual Basic variables. For me, it seemed a natural progression to continue to use these naming conventions and adapt ...Read More

How we survived WAgile

There is much to be gained from the literature and assimilation into development of well defined religions of software development; Kanban, Scrum, the much maligned Waterfall etc. I have often experienced a certain frustration when coming up with ...Read More

Brilliant Presentation On API Design

Many of our Caplin Xaqua and Caplin Trader components can be customized and extended, and we provide APIs that allow our customers to do this. Indeed, some components, such as the StreamLink and DataSource SDKs consist entirely of APIs that are ...Read More

Inadvertantly Abstract

Yesterday you may have seen the @CaplinTech tweet about Zed Shaw's essay which complains that programmers too often muddle the concepts of indirection and abstraction. In particular he bemoans that this confusion often results in programmers designing bad APIs. ...Read More