It was that time of the year again for UX designers and engineers to down tools from the usual day-to-day work items and spend 24 hours for the Caplin Hack Day. The theme this year was ‘Simplify and ...Read More
Caplin Hack Day VII – TimeSheets by TimeWarp
On this years Caplin Hackday we decided to rewrite the timesheet tool used by the company to track time spent on projects and in general. The current timesheet can be very user unfriendly at times. For example when the user ...Read More
Caplin Hack Day VII – MarketLens by McRitlain
Periodically, the whole of the engineering team have a Hack Day at Caplin. Teams of up to four have 24 Hours straight to produce something new, innovative and cool. This time we decided to produce a new way of visualising ladders ...Read More
A 'dev day' on improving documentation
This is a blog post about my 'dev day' For the unitiated, a ‘dev day’ is: … basically a learning day for educators or business professionals.http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-a-professional-development-day.html Yep, it is what it ...Read More
Forward Tenor Indicator
FX Tiles provide the ability to trade and view the rates of FX currency pairs. The Caplin FX Tiles are configurable, allowing users to set both the volume and the settlement or value date of the Tiles, to subscribe to relevant ...Read More
Double Click FX Tiles
FX Tiles provide two main pieces of functionality, the ability to see live rates for a certain Currency Pair Volume Bands and the ability to Trade quickly. It is this first piece of functionality that most users will ...Read More
Different Tiers of Performance Test
Recently, I was involved in the performance testing of several different projects at Caplin and for our customers. What I have noticed is that when we do functional testing we have different tiers of functional tests like Unit test level, Acceptance ...Read More
Embracing Node.js
Repost from bladerunnerjs.org/ James Turner on 13 Dec 2013 In the last couple of years Node.js has exploded onto the web development stage. (I’m going to assume that you are familiar with Node.js. If you’re not, and you’re doing ...Read More
How should Investment Banks capitalise on the new Apple Watch for financial trading?
With the launch of the Apple Watch Caplin wanted to board the wearable tech bandwagon. We wanted to ask the questions why and how should a sell side Investment Bank want to use wearable tech? Let’s face ...Read More
Google Drive vs Microsoft Office 365 or “You will take my Excel from me when you pry it from my cold, dead hands”
When we ran a staff survey recently, we were surprised by the deep feelings of affection ...Read More