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GWT.create agenda is awesome
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 ...
Vaadin Development Team Update 8/2013
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 ...
Vaadin Refcard updated
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 ...
OSGi and Vaadin - Part 1
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 ...
Vaadin Development Team Update 06-07/2013
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 ...
Vaadin at OpenNMS Dev Jam
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 ...
First step in accessibility
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 ...
GWT.create(Call for presentations)
While the GWT ecosystem is stronger than ever, there has not been a large GWT focused conference for years. We decided that this really needs to be fixed. I am proud to announce that we are hosting a full conference around GWT: two days filled with technology and 20+ presentations in December. You ...
Developing Modular Vaadin Applications Without OSGi
As applications grow larger, modularity becomes more important. There are multiple reasons why you would want to make your application modular. Maybe you are developing a uniform platform for all of your company's applications? Maybe you want to be able to offer different configurations of your ...