Tag: JavaScript

This post is going to be short and sweet. “Short” because Fiddler makes working around this problem so simple. And “Sweet” because I think this is really powerful and will allow you to develop applications that show why cross domain ...Read More

We've all seen the retail and consumer space push to ditch IE6 gathering pace over the last 6 months, including a petition to the UK government and Google's announcement that their online productivity suite ...Read More

When I joined Caplin 10 years ago I came from a company that used Hungarian notation to name its C++ and Visual Basic variables. For me, it seemed a natural progression to continue to use these naming conventions and adapt ...Read More

At Caplin we use the JsUnit framework to test our JavaScript code. Over time we have made minor modifications to it, integrating Mock4JS and JSCoverage, as well as adding a few of our own extensions that are sympathetic ...Read More

On 31st December 2009 a unit test that had been running successfully in the Caplin continuous integration environment for two months suddenly started failing. The test in question created a JavaScript Date object, modified it using various setter ...Read More

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

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 ...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 ...Read More