Javalobby did a really nice interview with Jonathan, Eelco & Igor about wicket.

Javalobby Interview

They talk a lot about Wicket Ajax and how it is implemented at the core. Quite interesting. Not to mention how each brings an interesting perspective to the project.

Apache Wicket is the best! Live forever.

The Apache Wicket team announced the availability of the third maintenance release: Apache Wicket 1.3.3.
A lot of bugs have been squashed and several improvements implemented.
NOTE: A bug related to the order of the rendered links in <wicket:head>, which might have influence how stylesheets were loaded.

http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/wicket/1.3.3

Another great release from a great team of developers. Each release is like a new gift found under the tree at Christmas.

UPDATE: An autocomplete bug has cropped up in this version (that I personally have run into), but is fixed in the 1.3.4 trunk or 1.4M1 trunk. You can always wait as well for the official 1.3.4 release.

The Apache Wicket team announced the availability of the 2nd maintenance release: Apache Wicket 1.3.2.  Mostly bug fixes and minor improvements.   Paving the way for the next major version of Wicket I believe.

Wicket users update now, I personally have not notice anything broken, but I use self built weekly builds most of the time anyhow.

Apache Wicket

 New Firefox extension for Firebug.  Firebug is already THE tool for any web developer.

All you web developers using Firebug, go get Firecookie so you get cookie control all right in Firebug interface.

http://www.janodvarko.cz/firecookie

Already found myself using it more than I thought I would.  So much more power being able to more than just view your cookies.

Get it, get it, get it!

Matej Knopp recently released some nice grid (or table) components over at inMethods software site. They work really slick and should be very easy to integrate into existing projects. Not to mention that they make Wicket (as if it was great on its own) just that much better looking.

DateGrid Features

• ajax enabled
• resizable and reorderable columns
• horizontal and vertical scrolling with fixed header
• multi-column sorting support
• easy item selection
• advanced pagination (even without knowing the total item count)
• adapters for Wicket Extensions IDataProvider and IColumn

TreeGrid Features

• ajax enabled
• resizable and reorderable columns
• horizontal and vertical scrolling with fixed header
• multi-column sorting support
• easy item selection
• driven by a swing TreeModel and TreeNode

All wicket users should definitely take a look at the project that is in beta 2 right now.

http://www.inmethod.com

Firebug 1.1 beta update has been released and you will want to update to this guy.

Release Notes

Download it now!

How did we ever survive doing web development before Firebug?