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Getting realtime data into Excel

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 ...Read More

Portlets and Ajax

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 ...Read More

What is the ‘real-time web’?

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 ...Read More

Adding an Observer to an Observable

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 ...Read More

Welcome to the Caplin Systems Tech Blog

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 ...Read More