We have been using agile methods - a typical mix of Scrum and XP - for some years now at Caplin. Though all of us have had some level of formal training and many years of ...Read More
Domain Driven Design: Approaches to Streaming
In Sockets, Messages and the Pub Sub Paradigm: Approaches to Streaming I discussed various techniques involved in streaming data to a browser. There are many products available making use of these techniques to solve a broad variety of problems, but ...Read More
SPA 2010 conference proposals
The SPA conference is always a great event with lots of interesting sessions and a good mix of people in attendence. Following a succesful session that Andrew MacLeod and I ran at ...Read More
RTTP Log Firebug Extension
I recently put some time into developing a Firebug extension to display log messages From SL4B - Caplin's Ajax Streaming Library. Usually these messages are displayed in a popup window that will close and re-open on every refresh of Caplin Trader. ...Read More
What does Platformability mean to you?
We’ve purposefully not defined exactly what Platformability means. It was conjured up by Duncan based on a number of ideas. To help you decide what Platformability means to you, here are a few things to consider and some of my thoughts about the ...Read More
Scaling Flex for enterprise applications
Last night Phil Leggetter and I attended a session on Scaling Flex applications run by Skillsmatter. The video of the event has now been posted. We found this interesting as we as a company have entered ...Read More
Sockets, Messages and the Pub Sub Paradigm: Approaches to Streaming
There are many products and projects out there that allow you to stream data to clients from a server, and most letting you send data back to a server too. There are various approaches that have been taken to achieve this ...Read More
UX: Time to get emotional
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 ...Read More
Streamlink for Silverlight for Mobile
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 ...Read More
Supporting IE6 – a poison chalice or the holy grail?
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 ...Read More