Category: Community
Vaadin Community survey results
Although the community survey is performed regularly to track the current preferences of our users, we have not shared the results of a community survey since 2016. With Vaadin celebrating its 20th birthday this year, we thought it was long overdue that we share the opinions of our users that have ...
Top 5 tips on how to learn Java from the Vaadin community
A big thank you to those who shared their tips and tricks on how to learn Java. Your stories were delightful to read and are appreciated. This post summarizes your stories. The common trend is that learning Java is a process. Some struggled with Java in the beginning. For others, it was a long ...
Improving the developer experience for Java developers
The highlight of the recent Vaadin 15 release is the new capability to write UIs using TypeScript on the client side. Notwithstanding this, most of our recent effort has in fact gone into adding new value for Java-based UI development. These improvements target the upcoming minor releases of Vaadin ...
Developer Experience at Vaadin
Have you felt frustrated about something lately and think that the problem is with Vaadin? Ok, we’d like to help you with that. Before we can make things better, we first need to know what you think. As a developer, what is your experience with Vaadin? We invite you to tell us, either through ...
Share your Java knowledge with us
Learning is a complex process. Many different aspects, ranging from motivation to social environment, contribute to how we learn and gather new information. Even though we may think learning is an individual process, the contrary is actually true: it is a social activity, involving people, cultural ...
Full-stack with Java at Devnexus 2020
The Vaadin team was at Devnexus 2020, the largest Java developer conference in the US. The event was sold out and there were 2400 attendees, mostly from the US, but also from many other countries around the world. To me, as a Product Owner at Vaadin, events like this are not only a chance to learn ...
Coding Java with Vaadin at Jfokus 2020
I had the chance to attend Jfokus 2020 with my colleagues Matti Tahvonen and Sami Ekblad. Jfokus is Sweden's largest software developer conference and an "all-about-Java" event. There were over 2000 visitors and dozens of international speakers and exhibitors. The event Most of the talks had a ...
4 apps, 1 winner: the GitHub Coding Challenge results are in!
Vaadin was part of GitHub’s Holiday Coding Challenge and we received four magnificent applications from our community. Thank you for these. Choosing the winner was a difficult task, but Diego Cortés’ application did stand out from the crowd. Diego’s winning web application allows users to report ...
Java Meets Web - December 2019
Welcome to the first edition of Java Meets Web! In this monthly publication, I'll share links to some of the articles I read to keep up with what's going on in the Java ecosystem. You can expect topics on: the Java Programming Language, Java libraries and frameworks, new releases, and relevant news ...