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Your wait is over - Vaadin Plug-in for NetBeans is here
After having an unofficial plugin for NetBeans IDE since the year 2009 we are happy to announce the first version of Vaadin’s official plugin for NetBeans IDE. The unofficial plugin was almost an internal jest thanks to its development model. It was first loosely based on Vaadin’s own Teemu’s ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
New Book - Vaadin UI Design by Example
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 ...