At times it seems that the philosophy of agile software development is at odds with that of framework development. Given the amount of print and web space dedicated to agile methodologies, it's incredible how little is dedicated to this topic. It's ...Read More
Pitfalls of Exception expectations in JsUnit
At Caplin we use the JsUnit framework to test our JavaScript code. Over time we have made minor modifications to it, integrating Mock4JS and JSCoverage, as well as adding a few of our own extensions that are sympathetic ...Read More
Ignoring UX could cost you
This is why it's all about the UX and not the UI. Those in the business of developing front-end trading applications - take note. You have got to look beyond the graphics and explore the interaction while ...Read More
Guaranteed Messaging – Don’t believe it
Guaranteed messaging is something that I've covered before from a Comet perspective. It is still mentioned a lot when talking about messaging technology. People using the technology want to know that if they send a message that it will be ...Read More
Livescribe – as tool for Contextual Inquiry
Livescribe is a tool I’ve been using for a year or so now within the UX team here at Caplin, to capture notes from design meetings and ongoing UCD contextual inquiries. It’s a ...Read More
An agile team-board layout that works for us, for now.
As a team lead, the first time I was tasked with preparing a team-board, I set out to learn from how others had laid out theirs first. I started with a study of various layouts in our office and then searched ...Read More
Would a setMonth() by Any Other Method Name be as Sweet?
On 31st December 2009 a unit test that had been running successfully in the Caplin continuous integration environment for two months suddenly started failing. The test in question created a JavaScript Date object, modified it using various setter ...Read More
Would anybody want StreamLink for Windows Mobile?
After years of promise it really does look like mobile is the next big thing? But what mobile platform will prove to be the most popular? It seems to be a two horse race between iPhone and Android, with Windows Mobile lagging somewhere ...Read More
Silverlight and Flex versus Ajax
On November 10th Caplin and Finextra sponsored a webcast discussing issues surrounding single-dealer portals in capital markets. We have the highlights and while much of the discussion was purely business focused, part III discusses the emergence of Ajax versus Flex and ...Read More
The Rumours of Comet’s Death Have Been Greatly Exaggerated
Joe Armstrong in a recent blog post (which made it to reddit) announces the coronation of HTML 5 websockets now that Google has added them to Chrome. He's also pleased to relegate Comet, long polling and its friends to ...Read More