Vaadin DEV team Update 9/2013

There are lots of things going on right now, so please bear with me while I struggle with keeping all the things on a suitable level of detail. The biggest change, literally implemented under the hood, is that we have reorganized the R&D department. For about two years, Vaadin Framework and all ...

JavaOne 2013 is coming, will you be there

The Vaadin team is once again gearing up to start our journey to JavaOne, San Francisco! JavaOne is the largest Java conference of the year, that gathers all the Java enthusiasts together in San Francisco to share their knowledge of and experience with all things Java. The 18th JavaOne includes ...

Product Direction

Vaadin 7 was a huge thing for all of the Vaadin community. Where should we go next? Before jumping into details on what exactly we are going to be doing tomorrow, next month or by the end of the year, let's look at the big picture on what we are trying to do in a long run... Making building the ...

Vaadin at the University (Lecture 2)

Rise 'n' shine - it is Friday, and time for another Vaadin lecture. Previously I guided you through the process of installing Vaadin plugin into Eclipse. Now that you are ready to code, let’s get to know the most important building blocks of any Vaadin application: the UI components. Today’s ...

Contributing back to Vaadin

Being an open source project, our goal at Vaadin has always been to enable contributing to the framework as easily as possible. And we’ve accomplished that quite well - Vaadin wouldn’t be what it is today without your feedback and help. Everything we do is fully open in our public Trac system and ...

Introducing the UX wiki

As part of the Web Application Development with Vaadin university course held last winter by our very own Miki Olszewski, I had the pleasure of holding a 90 minute lecture on user interface and user experience design, with special focus on how to improve the usability of Vaadin applications. While ...

Brace yourself, webinars are coming

As most of you have probably seen, we started a new series of webinars about Vaadin last spring. We had webinars about Vaadin Touchkit, the official Vaadin certification and even had time to squeeze in one for the release of Vaadin 7.1. The best way to check out all our webinars is to subscribe to ...

Making your Vaadin app easy to theme

As a Vaadin Designer, I spend a lot of time theming Other People’s Apps. Unfortunately, as I have learned over the years, many people seem to end up building apps that don’t like to be themed. If you, however, want to reduce the time and effort needed to theme your app, then here are some best ...

Vaadin at the University

Vaadin HQ is located in Turku, Finland, a city with a long university tradition. Furthermore, our premises are just a few minutes away from the ICT House, a building that is a home to the IT departments of the two universities in Turku. Finally, the Department of Information Technology of the ...