Software Trenches

Fixing Firefox on Powerbook

Thanks to ITweaks I finally found how to fix this very annoyning problem with Powerbook touchpad and Mozilla Firefox (OSX):

"In Firefox, type about:config into the address bar and hit return. This gives you a list of all possible configuration options. The ones we want are those that start with mousewheel.horizscroll.withnokey. Make the following changes by double-clicking the appropriate option in the list:

* mousewheel.horizscroll.withnokey.action => 0
* mousewheel.horizscroll.withnokey.sysnumlines => true
"

See Mac OS X Hints for more details.

Interview with Jason Fried

Jason Fried is founder of 37signals: Well, if we think of Basecamp as a client, it's our biggest client. It's definitely driving us in the direction we want to go. It's profitable for us, so we're really able to spend time and resources on it. It's allowing us to say no to client work. That's not meant to be cocky; we just need to focus on our products. If Basecamp were not doing well for us, we'd have to do more client work to pay the bills. That would mean that we wouldn't be able to spend as much time on Basecamp, which would in turn mean it would probably never be profitable because it would just be a side project.

Interview with Jason Fried

How to setup Squirrel SQL 2.0rc1 on Mac OS X Tiger

Squirrel SQLis popular JDBC-based database client. It has nice OSX package distribution which allows you to easily install the application by dragging it to Applications folder.

Unfortunately, current version is broken at the moment. Fortunately, there is a way to fix it.

Here is how:

1. Open the folder where you installed SquirrelSQL.app (usually /Applications)


2. Right-click on SquirrelSQL.app and Show Package Contents


3. Under Contents/MacOS there is JavaApplicationStub file, you need to replace it with one from /System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Resources/MacOS/


4. Remove looks-1.3.1.jar file located under Contents/Resources/Java/plugins/laf/lafs