Congratulations - You passed the exam

Last week we celebrated 1 year of online Vaadin certification exams with free exams for the entire week. We were following the score in real-time at the Vaadin office and were excited to see more and more people join in taking the exam, even as late as Sunday evening right before the time to take ...

Vaadin UIs in XML webinar

Our latest webinar was a discussion about using declarative XML to define Vaadin user interfaces. I was joined by Pekka Perälä and we discussed the benefits of declarative UIs and introduced the Clara add-on. You might also want to take a look at my previous blog post about Clara. During the ...

February survey results - Learning and doing with Vaadin

Last month we ran a survey at vaadin.com to better understand how you learn and find information about Vaadin Framework and tools. Learn Vaadin There are a ton of web resources for people starting to learn Vaadin, but the most important source of information is still Book of Vaadin - also available ...

Vaadin meets eXo Platform - Run your favorite apps in an open social collaboration platform

In addition to providing out-of-the-box social-collaboration, eXo Platform is a user experience platform (UXP). It comes with a full set of social intranet UX-oriented features such as a wiki, forum, calendar, activity stream, community spaces as well as an out-of-the-box CMS and document ...

Responsive layouts with Vaadin and Sass

As a rehearsal for my workshop at GWT.create 2013, I gave an internal presentation/workshop last year about responsive layouts in Vaadin. The workshops at the conference weren’t recorded, but fortunately we record all of our internal presentations and trainings, so you have a chance to see this ...

Spring Time for Vaadin

Originally, the idea of the webinar was to show you how Spring has been used in different Vaadin projects in the past. However, once Josh Long from Pivotal got involved, we ended up creating a first prototype of a completely new integration that will sweep the floor with the conventional ways. This ...

Reactive functional UI development with Vaadin

Introduction Event-based callback methods provide a clear and asynchronous way to catch interactions and attach logic to them, executed whenever a suitable event enters the system. This is especially useful in user interface APIs where event callbacks make it straightforward to respond to user ...

What is so great about Vaadin NetBeans plugin?

While working mainly with Eclipse in Vaadin R&D, I have personally used NetBeans from time to time to get some precious oversight on what other IDEs can do. Most often that has happened after banging my head to a wall with Eclipse issues :-). From what I have learned, NetBeans excels at least ...

Webinars, Meetups and Trainings

The Vaadin calendar has been filling up rapidly after New Year and there are lots of events close to you coming up. Firstly, there are tons of webinars in the queue, with the next one on Spring, with Josh Long from Pivotal and the one after that on Vaadin Charts together with Torstein Honsi from ...