We have a long awaited announcement to make: Vaadin 7 developer certification is finally live at vaadin.com. Starting from today, you can validate your Vaadin 7 skills by taking an online exam through the Vaadin Pro Account. Vaadin certification helps you communicate the skills and expertise in ...

While we're still working at full steam, there has not been so much visible progress to highlight as we have mostly been fixing important but not spectacular bugs. We did release Vaadin 7.1 beta 1, but that was already covered in my previous update as well as in a separate blog post. We released ...

In Finland, we default to “no feedback is good feedback” – You usually don’t get positive feedback, since everyone assumes everything works great, that perfection is status quo. When we had a questionnaire about Directory, imagine my surprise when many of you actually took the time to take the ...

At the end of April, we were happy to hear that a third book on Vaadin has been finalized and published (not counting Book of Vaadin, of course). The authors Jaroslav Holaň and Ondřej Kvasnovský have done an awesome job with the Vaadin 7 Cookbook. “Cookbook” is indeed the perfect word to describe ...

What a nice way to start a new week. The Vaadin build process was successfully completed on Friday and we have now a new minor (beta) release: Vaadin 7.1 Beta1 is available in Maven Central and on the download page. Those of you who have been following Vaadin development lately already know that ...

We’re releasing a preview version of an add-on, simply called Vaadin Responsive, for making responsive design possible in Vaadin applications. With this early version, we hope to gather feedback about responsive design in general, what wishes and needs you have, and to improve the add-on from ...

The community has always been important to us, and continues to be so. We do our best to provide interesting technologies, articles and other insights for you. Apparently we’ve done some things right, since today marks the day when we got our 50 000th registered user on vaadin.com. Funnily enough, ...

Let’s start with the bad news: We have chosen to postpone Vaadin 7.1 beta 1 to the beginning of May with a stable release coming a month later. The main reason for this delay is that we want to tweak the push support by adding a couple of small features that we initially imagined we would not need ...

Three years of Vaadin Directory Vaadin Directory has turned 3 years of age already. The Vaadin Framework itself features a lot of widgets and components, but it cannot have all the features in the world without becoming too big and unusable. The goal of the Vaadin Directory was to “make creation, ...