Vaadin Blog
An Interview with an Add-on wizard - Henri Kerola
We sat down with one of our Vaadin guys here at the office, famous for his super scalable add-ons, Henri Kerola. 1) Henri, you're the creator of the Scaladin addon. Where did the idea for the add-on come from and why Scala? I think the original idea of providing something that makes it easier to ...
Vaadin at Devoxx
Devoxx Belgium - filled with infinite possibilities Devoxx, every software developer’s wet techno dream, gathers over 3 500 developers in Belgium in the city of Antwerp, early next week. Antwerp used to be famous for its diamond imports to Europe but during the week of November 10th to 14th, it’s ...
Community Spotlight - October 2014
Our friends at Akquinet have been very active again this month. This time not with new UI components, but with some really cool RAD tools to get started with Vaadin apps. The Vaadinator project consists of a project template (maven archetype) and some code generator tools that automatically create ...
Spotted: Certified Vaadin Developers
Last week over 600 Vaadin enthusiasts took the Vaadin Certification exam. From these over 160 people showed the skills to receive the diploma and passed the exam. Congratulations for all of you who passed, you are now part of an elite group. Didn’t pass? Prepare. Based on the statistics, you can ...
Using Gatling to stress test your Vaadin apps
Today agile development, TDD and continuous deployment are well adopted concepts and load testing shouldn't be conducted at some later moment in a project, but as soon as possible and on a regular basis. Gatling - an open source stress testing tool for web applications The Gatling project was born ...
Free Certification Week
NOTE: This blog post is outdated. Head over to the Learning Centre for our current selection of free training videos and certifications! For the duration of this week only you have the possibility to become a Vaadin 7 Certified developer with no cost at all. As a certified developer, you can ...
New book: Vaadin on Grails
Vaadin integration with Grails has been out there already for a few years and many companies and individuals have started using it. The developers who are using the plugin, that provides Vaadin integration into Grails, contributed back to the Vaadin plugin and now we are able to do all required ...
Responsive Web Design in Plain Java
Mobile web has brought up a trend that is called responsive web design (RWD). This commonly refers to a technique where the same HTML file is displayed in a bit of a varying manner, based on the screen size of the end user. This is achieved by some carefully crafted DOM structure and modern CSS ...
Getting started with Vaadin in Liferay
Greetings from the Liferay Symposium. The event was great and we have had many good discussions with new and old Vaadin fans over here. And this is no wonder, like you learned earlier Vaadin-based applications took double-win the Liferay Marketplace. Announcing the new Vaadin Liferay refcard The ...