Platformability

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

The Observer design pattern is used in many applications. If you are unfamiliar with it, or need to remind yourself about the specifics, you can read about it at Wikipedia or MSDN. Caplin Trader even provides a helper class to take care of ...Read More

Caplin Systems has been building pioneering real-time web technology for financial markets since 2000. During this time we've come up with a lot of very clever solutions to very difficult problems across a broad range of technologies and problem domains. ...Read More