Every week, usually on Friday, the JavaScript Weekly and HTML5 Weekly newsletters drop into my inbox. And every week I scan through the list of five or six new libraries ...Read More
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JQueryUK and the Future of Javascript
My initial plan to spot someone who looked jqueryey and follow them turned out to be completely unnecessary. The White October guys doing the organising had strategically placed friendly people with large pointers and painted white rabbits feet on the ground ...Read More
Websocket – First implementation impressions
Much to my surprise I ended up taking part in the inaugural Caplin HTML5 Hack Day. I say surprise because I'm more at home writing servers and APIs than working in a browser. Thankfully, it seems there's a feature in HTML5 ...Read More
SalesIQ: Empowering FX Sales Dealers with Predictive Insights
Caplin hackdays happen twice a year and are a perfect opportunity to try new things, many of which end up in our products. The theme for our July hackday was ‘Smart Caplin’, and our team SalesIQ wanted to investigate whether we ...Read More
URElf: Chrome extension to swiftly modify URL params
At Caplin, dev days offer an opportunity for engineers to take a break from their routine tasks, to delve into a side project or experiment with a new technology. During my recent dev day, ...Read More
Log into my web trading app using only flashing colours? Yes please!
If you didn’t already know, Hackday is Caplin’s version of a Hackathon. Yes, a gathering of highly gifted software engineers, UX designers and Sales Consultants who break up into teams (or go lone warrior) and code for ...Read More
Augmented reality table tennis
https://vimeo.com/111113027 Caplin recently organised the sixth company Hackday, which, we all agree, was the best so far. You can get a ...Read More
Devoxx 2014
Two talks caught my eye on the schedule for Devoxx 2014, and I couldn't wait to get to them. John Smart was over from Australia to talk about testing (and ...Read More
#DS13
Guy Nicholson opening Digital Shoreditch Caplin's UX team headed to Digital Shoreditch last week to discover what the most innovative and creative businesses in Tech City are doing to keep them ahead in ...Read More
Caplin at NYC FinTech Startup Weekend
Starting this evening and stretching over the weekend is this year’s FinTech Startup Weekend in New York City, which brings together financial technologists with the goal of building consumer and enterprise financial apps with ...Read More