The competition for the best Book of Vaadin (TM, Oscar nominee, Patent pending etc) is getting tougher by the day with a newcomer in the books about Vaadin category - this time with PACKT Publishing's Vaadin 7 UI Design by Example. The book aims to help you as a newcomer to understand the basics of ...

First of all, I would like to thank everyone who submitted a presentation proposal to the conference – being able to choose from over 100 high quality presentations was amazing. Fortunately the content team did not fear the challenge and spent many long nights debating the merits of each talk. It ...

The last month can be summarized as Vaadin 7.1.2, some not yet released fixes and some internal fiddling and brainstorming. That was easy. Anything else? With no exciting concrete news to report, I’ll instead take a more human approach. I’m happy to announce a 33% increase in the manpower of the ...

Heads up everyone who uses reference cards and cheat sheets: The DZone Refcard #85 has been updated. In case you are not familiar with these cheat sheets, they are free quick reference guides for developers & IT professionals, a fairly simple way to stay on top of the newest technologies and ...

If you are looking forward to run Vaadin with an OSGi environment you would have found the "Lunifera addon" at Vaadin directory. It is a comfortable way to get some benefits of OSGi in your Vaadin application. But maybe you want to implement your Vaadin bridge by your own. Therefore I have prepared ...

Two months have passed since my last status update. That’s two months of last minute fixes, a late release, a well-deserved summer vacation and most recently attempting to resurrect the framework development mindset that was suppressed during the vacation. The most awesome piece of news for you is ...

We arranged Vaadin 7.1 Webinar Thursday 11th July presenting the newest features and upcoming roadmap for Vaadin. In case you missed the webinar on-line, you can check it out here now!

A few weeks back Vaadin attended the OpenNMS Dev Jam event that was held at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis. OpenNMS is an open source enterprise grade network management application platform that has a highly engaged community of developers. More than 30 developers around the world ...

I wrote an introduction to WAI-ARIA blog post awhile ago. With Vaadin 7.1 comes now the first little step towards being able to develop accessible Vaadin applications using WAI-ARIA. With this, Vaadin components start to be accessible by applications like screen reader and devices like braille ...