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More about Vaadin Font Icons
Using icons is a quick and effective way to visually represent content on the web. Icons can also aesthetically improve a site’s or application’s visual look and feel. Having all the icons in one font file is a very handy way of working with icons in design applications. Font icons being basically ...
Community Spotlight - September 2015
It’s been awhile since we last wrote about new add-ons in Vaadin Directory. Like we promised last month, this time we will take a look at some of the new add-ons and updates available. As usual, there is more new stuff than makes sense to list here. Thank you everyone for your awesome contributions ...
Vaadin 7.6 preview: Improved communication mechanism
Have you ever seen this nasty warning? If so, Vaadin 7.6 will bring better times for you with its improved communication. It has better fault tolerance, error handling and feedback to the user! Error handling before was very simple The handling of temporary communication problems in Vaadin 7.5 and ...
A day in the life of a Vaadin Expert
We at Vaadin get hundreds of job applications each month, and the most common question of all applicants is, what a “normal day” for a Vaadin Expert looks like. To answer that let’s have a look at one of our Vaadin Experts, Mr. Petri Heinonen. Petri’s story is quite similar to those of others ...
Vaadin Spring 1.0.0 is out!
I’m honoured to announce that the beta period for Vaadin Spring integration library has ended and the first stable release, with version number 1.0.0, is now available. Using Vaadin (and plain Java) alone is not the best way to build large business applications. In any non-trivial application, ...
Host your JavaDoc’s online in GitHub
It’s Thursday evening and you have just finished your new awesome Vaadin Add-on. The very last commit is pushed to github, the .zip is uploaded to the directory, the release notes are updated, you lean back and take a five? Ok, you are great, but wait... Where is your add-on’s javadoc? Of course, ...
Vaadin Spreadsheet 1.1 is out with point to cell and grouping
Vaadin Spreadsheet gets a new and awaited minor release update. Version 1.1 is now available for download with these cool new features. Point-to-cell Probably the most used Excel feature is finally included in Vaadin Spreadsheet. Now you can create formulas by clicking a single cell or a group of ...
Vaadin and IntelliJ IDEA Community Edition
Is it possible to use IDEA Community Edition for Vaadin development? Community Edition is free (as well as Vaadin Framework itself) but it lacks some important Enterprise and Web-related features like HTML/Javascript/CSS language support, application servers integration, GWT support etc. Ultimate ...
Vaadin opens an office in Berlin
We are proud to open a brand new office in Berlin, Germany to be closer to our German customers and users. The office's main focus is on consulting with the goal of serving our German users better both commercially as well as in local meetups and at events. "We will hire at least 10 developers and ...