Inadvertantly Abstract
Yesterday you may have seen the @CaplinTech tweet about Zed Shaw's essay which complains that programmers too often muddle the concepts of indirection and abstraction. In partic...
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Agile Framework Development
At times it seems that the philosophy of agile software development is at odds with that of framework development. Given the amount of print and web space dedicated to agile met...
Read morePitfalls of Exception expectations in JsUnit
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 ...
Read moreIgnoring UX could cost you
This is why it's all about the UX and not the UI. Those in the business of developing front-end trading applications – take note.
Read moreGuaranteed Messaging – Don't believe it
Guaranteed messaging is something that I've covered before from a Comet perspective. It is still mentioned a lot when talking about messaging technology. People using the techno...
Read moreLivescribe – as tool for Contextual Inquiry
Livescribe is a tool I've been using for a year or so now within the UX team here at Caplin, to capture notes from design meetings and ongoing UCD contextual inquiries. It's a g...
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