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Hey everyone! No code nor rant for this week’s article but just very good news: Learning Vaadin 7 has been published! This new edition of Learning Vaadin describes of course what is new in Vaadin 7 as well has changes from v6 to v7, but also introduces some great additional stuff.

I was contacted last week by Packt Publishing. They made me the following offer: I was to choose the books I wished in their catalog and then write an article for each of them. I gave this offer much thought and finally said yes on the condition I was to be free to say what I really thought about the book.

A design pattern in architecture and computer science is a formal way of documenting a solution to a design problem in a particular field of expertise. — Wikipedia Design patterns are a common reference in our line of work. People who discuss a pattern often draw strange looks from people who don’t about it (or who don’t know about patterns in general). Of course, there are dozens and dozens of design patterns just waiting for us to know them.