OmniAuth with Google gives you a OAuth 400 Unauthorized Error?

If you're trying to use OmniAuth with Google and OAuth2 and keep on getting 400 Unauthorized Errors, you may need to add a scropt to your config:

  config.omniauth :google, 'CLIENTID.apps.googleusercontent.com',  'SECRET',
                  {:scope => 'https://www.google.com/m8/feeds/'}

Have been looking for hours for the correct solution. Even there is some code in the OmniAuth gem, it doesn't work correctly.

N9? Well done, Nokia - but only a bit late

It seems that four years after the release of the original iPhone, Nokia finally came up with a phone which may at least compete with the iPhone, the N9.

But is it just me, or do they even copy the typical Apple Videos in their video "Swipe" with this nice technical dude beeing complete excited about the product and how it's beeing manufactured? And even the language about "change" ...

Is Groupon going to burst the bubble?

Groupon has filed its S-1 and hopes to raise $750M in its initial public offering. Given they’re currently losing a staggering $117M per quarter, despite revenues of $644M, they’ll be burning through that cash almost as soon as it hits their account. At the moment, it’s costing them $1.43 to make $1, and it doesn’t look like it’s getting any cheaper. They’re already projected to make close to three billion dollars in revenues this year. If you can’t figure out how to make money on three billion in revenue, when exactly will the profit magic be found? Ten billion? Fifty billion?

— http://shortlogic.tumblr.com/post/6142108636/groupon-ipo-pass-on-this-deal

So a company that owes $230 million more than it has, and appears to be burning through $100 million or more a quarter, is using money raised from later investors to pay back early investors? Sounds vaguely familiar.

— http://www.minyanville.com/businessmarkets/articles/groupon-groupon-ipo-tech-stocks-linked/6/3/2011/id/34936

A few new talks about the cloud …

Long time no updates, I know … I'll try harder. Anyway, I held some talks in the last weeks, and here are the slides. First talk was at the AWS Tech Summit for Developers and Architects, called «Lessons Learned from Converting a Web Application to Multitenancy and Deploying it to Amazon Web Services using Scalarium». Second one was at the iico.de 2011 about «CMS, SaaS und Cloud».

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Mick Jagger about the state of the record industry

But I have a take on that - people only made money out of records for a very, very small time. When The Rolling Stones started out, we didn't make any money out of records because record companies wouldn't pay you! They didn't pay anyone! Then, there was a small period from 1970 to 1997, where people did get paid, and they got paid very handsomely and everyone made money. But now that period has gone. So if you look at the history of recorded music from 1900 to now, there was a 25 year period where artists did very well, but the rest of the time they didn't.
— http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/8681410.stm

Notes from my iPad order in Germany

Just pre-ordered a iPad 3G in Germany.