Category: Community
Why do developers use Java in 2021?
Our previous post took a snapshot of the history and current state of Java: Who made it? How many developers does it have? What are they using Java for? This post takes a look at some of the reasons why Java has gained and retained its popularity for over a quarter of a decade. You can use Java for ...
The State of Java
Java is one of the most popular programming languages, especially for enterprise applications. This post takes a brief look at its long history and where it is today. 25 years of Java The Java Development Kit (JDK) 1.0 was designed by a team lead by James Gosling and released at Sun Microsystems in ...
Top 25 Vaadin add-ons of 2020
The Vaadin Directory serves as a marketplace for add-ons and web components for your Vaadin applications. It’s a community-driven effort that includes integrations of other components, modifications to existing Vaadin components, or creations of additional features from scratch that are maintained ...
Vaadin Challenge: Get certified and win a Vaadin t-shirt
In the past, access to our video training courses and certifications was included in the Plus tier. We decided to unlock them all and make them available for free in the Core tier. Now, we’re challenging our community members to get certified in Vaadin 14, our latest LTS version. How the challenge ...
Vaadin Community Channels and Social Media
Hola! I'm Luis and I’m the new Community Advocate at Vaadin. I thought I should use this chance to introduce myself, as I’ll be behind a lot of the communication in our Social Media and you’ll often see me in our Community channels. My mission is to be the voice of the Community inside the company, ...
Announcing the new Vaadin Community Discord Chat
Update 2024-03-15: We have discontinued Discord as our main forum. Instead, go to vaadin.com/forum to ask for help and share your feedback. You know the feeling. You've been staring at your code for 15 minutes. You’ve debugged it a bit. Maybe you’ve even checked page 2 on Google. But no. It's still ...
Vaadin Dev Day October 2020 videos now available
The second free online edition of Vaadin Dev Day took place in October and was a success! We had participants from all over the World. Just for fun, see if your location is on the participant map: The event theme was Vaadin Fusion—a web framework to build UIs using TypeScript and Java backends. The ...
Modern web development blogs by Vaadin users
With local meetups and conferences at a standstill, the online developer community is more active than ever. Vaadin has been around for 20 years and during this time we’ve seen our development community grow from a few users to over 150,000. We always keep a keen eye out for interesting topics and ...
Vaadin Dev Day online is here again
And it's free! At Vaadin Dev Day events, you get to see developers from the Vaadin team presenting technical topics on web development. Traditionally, this event is held in person in different cities throughout the year. At the beginning of 2020, this changed and the event was moved online and ...