Category: Community
![2022 VCA winner Josiah Haswell](https://blog.vaadin.com/hubfs/Josiah%20Haswell%20%281%29.png)
Josiah Haswell on building Aire UX - an open source components and utilities library for Vaadin
Meet Josiah Haswell! He is one of the 2022 winners of the Vaadin Community Award. With a background in compilers and distributed systems, Josiah is currently the CTO of Sunshower.io – a (now mostly open-source) low-code deployment and infrastructure cost and configuration optimization product. In ...
![2022 VCA winner Ryan Pang](https://blog.vaadin.com/hubfs/Ryan%20Pang.png)
Ryan Pang on combining popular Javascript libraries with Vaadin
Ryan graduated from the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China in 2006 and started his Java journey. He has been working as a software developer for more than 16 years, providing software solutions for the government, insurance companies, fin-tech companies, and banks. Also, Ryan ...
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Meet the 2022 Vaadin Community Award winners!
In 2021, we launched the Vaadin Community Award (VCA) program to recognize our community members who have demonstrated an exceptional track record of community participation. The support of our community is what drives us forward as an open-source platform. We love to see what our community members ...
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Vaadin Collaboration Kit challenges you to win
I'm happy to announce the Vaadin Collaboration Kit Application Challenge launch, an app design and programming competition. This challenge aims to design and build an application using the Vaadin Collaboration Kit. The application should solve a real-world problem, which could be anything from ...
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What stuck out to the Products team in the Vaadin Community Survey 2021
In the Vaadin Community Survey 2021, we asked our community members a series of questions to help us gain a better understanding of who is currently using Vaadin, why they’re using Vaadin, as well as what are some of the most common things they struggle with when building applications with Vaadin. ...
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Vaadin joins Foojay advisory board
Java is at the core of everything we do at Vaadin. Since 2001, we've been building tools that help developers and companies using Java build great web applications. Today, we are happy to announce that Vaadin is joining the Foojay advisory board to help promote a thriving Java ecosystem. Foojay, ...
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Turo Italia enabled real-time collaboration for their CRM
A new version of Turo Italia’s Customer Resource Management (or CRM) system was released at the end of 2021. Built with Vaadin 14, it enables real-time collaboration between users thanks to the Vaadin Collaboration Kit. Turo Italia is now looking at Vaadin 23 for new data-provider functionality and ...
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Vaadin apps as native executables using Quarkus Native
JVM is a monster – in a good way. Its architecture and especially the super-optimized just-in-time-compiler (JIT) help Java byte-code apps to run at a performance that makes startups rewrite their entire software when they grow up. But this amazing piece of engineering doesn’t come without a price. ...
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Meet us at DevNexus, JFokus, Devoxx UK and more in 2022
After two years of canceled, in-person conferences and events due to the pandemic, we are excited to announce that we’ll finally be hitting the road again! We are looking forward to meeting all the new and old friends of the Vaadin community face-to-face once again. If you’re planning to visit one ...