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The Web is Dead. Long Live the (3D) Web
Ok, well actually it’s a bit more like the web is getting ready to transform. – quite literally. Developers will start needing to get familiar with depth cueing, mip mapping, vector normals, and...
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HTML5 WebSocket support
Dylan has posted a good round up of the state of WebSocket support over on CometDaily. As you can see, the browser support is limited, and the version of WebSocket supported comes into it too. The two...
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iPhone and iPad WebSocket support
With the release of iOS 4.2 yesterday Mobile Safari has been upgraded to support WebSocket, along with some other new features too. I have been reasonably vocal about how WebSocket isn’t the answer to...
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Why no WebSocket server API?
WebSocket consists of a simple Javascript API and a protocol definition. It is fairly simple in concept and the Javascript API makes it very easy to use within any web page. There is lots of talk about...
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PubSubHubbub vs client push technologies: What’s the difference?
I have talked about PubSubHubbub – the not quite real time web previously, but I am still seeing misleading information about PubSubHubbub being posted on the Internet. This post isn’t intended to...
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Benchmarking Caplin Liberator
As the financial comet-streaming engine space becomes more commoditised, vendor selection processes for market data distribution and trade capture projects are both becoming more commonplace and more...
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Real-time Web on LinkedIn
There’s some interesting discussion on the Real-time web Software and Technologies group between Phil Leggetter (ex-Caplin, now Pusher), Frank Greco (Kaazing), Alessandro Alinone (Lightstreamer) and...
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Server Scalability – HTML5 websockets vs Comet
There’s an interesting discussion over on stackoverflow about server scalability and HTML5 WebSockets vs Comet. I have blogged in the past on the topic of server performance and about WebSocket and...
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Velocity – London 2013
After a thrilling 3 days at the Velocity Conference in London, I’ve put together this blog to give an overview of the more interesting talks covered in this year’s conference. For those whom are...
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Is the future of trading more transparent, social and sharable in nature like...
We got an opportunity at Activate London 2014 organized by the Guardian, to learn about emerging, game changing trends in the financial domain. The core topic of discussion was around the changes...
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HackDay 6 – Hack-o-we’en roundup
Last Friday saw another 24-hour coding-fest at Caplin HQ. All engineering staff were asked to form teams for a start on Thursday lunchtime and build something cool to demo on Friday afternoon. For a...
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Hackday VI: Caplin Tailor
Twice a year Caplin developers, designers and business analysts have the opportunity to down tools on their projects and work on an idea or concept of their own during a 24 hour Hack Day. The theme for...
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Caplin Hack Day VII – Ninjatron Analytics
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...
View ArticlePubSubHubbub vs client push technologies: What's the difference?
I have talked about PubSubHubbub – the not quite real time web previously, but I am still seeing misleading information about PubSubHubbub being posted on the Internet. This post isn’t intended to...
View ArticleAppiumConf 2018
On 6th April 2018 the first AppiumConf was held. This was the first conference specifically about Appium, the mobile testing tool based on Selenium. Fittingly, the keynote was from two founders of the...
View ArticleTwitter Weekly Updates for 2010-07-18
RT @ajaxian: Strobe; A hot new HTML5-touch startup founded by Charles Jolley: http://bit.ly/blCsau # RT @cometdaily: Reminder, London Comet panel is tonight...
View ArticleSo what can you do with Free Liberator?
Last week I was on the panel at the London Ajax Comet event along with a number of other people representing Comet products. Comet servers are nothing new and there are lots of options out there now,...
View ArticleMake bidirectional use of Comet – not just half of it!
In my blog Comet Servers for a Single-Dealer Platform (SDP) one of the questions I posed was whether a Comet server supports bidirectional messaging. The key feature of Comet has always been the...
View ArticleTwitter Weekly Updates for 2010-08-08
RT @detyro: Time to get Emotional about your markup: http://bit.ly/9FEYBg the W3C release Emotion Markup Language (EmotionML) 1.0 # RT @ian_alderson:RT @bymathias: jScrollPane http://bit.ly/dxiVPK...
View ArticleWill IE9 save us from IE6?
Microsoft have released a beta of IE9, you can download it from http://www.beautyoftheweb.com/. It seems that the battle of the browsers these days has a lot to do with being the best and fastest for...
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