Platformability

In Tales from a Trading Desk, this week Matt Davey has picked up on an interesting article about UX and ROI. I like this sound bite: Also, if you create great UX it will always lead to better user satisfaction, joy and ...Read More

With the recent release of Caplin's Streamlink for Silverlight it's exciting to find out that Microsoft plan to release a Silverlight for Mobile devices. The goal of Silverlight is to provide a consistent experience across desktop and mobile phones. Developers will be ...Read More

One of the big benefits of Caplin's browser-based SDP platform, Caplin Trader, is that it can run in virtually any browser without the need for plugins or special configuration. This is no mean feat for a complex, high performance, low ...Read More

Starting with Excel 2002, Microsoft have included the RTD interface which allows Excel to poll for data. Polling seems to be a much more efficient way of getting data into Excel than the classic approach which is pushing - it's not uncommon ...Read More

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Could it be that the time for Silverlight in finance has come? Does Adobe Flex solve any of the complexities of building web applications? Where does Caplin Trader fit in to this landscape? These are all questions that I ...Read More

Developing portlets can be a frustrating experience, especially if you are used to technologies with lots of helpful information out there on the web.  While lots of people are using portlets, it seems that few are writing about them. What should be a ...Read More

The phrase "real-time web" has been streaming its way around the Internet for a while now. It's presently being used to describe information being available in search results as soon as it has been published by its author. Examples of this are Twitter ...Read More

Mock4JS is a really useful unit testing helper library that allows you to create mocks of your JavaScript classes. What it doesn't presently support is mocking of objects that you can't create an instance of yourself using new Class() or of objects ...Read More

Last week myself and Patrick Myles, Caplin's Head of Engineering, presented a workshop session at the SPA 2009 conference on Testing Ajax Applications through the GUI. The main theme of the talk was to demonstrate that, by building a thin ...Read More