About Michael Earls

Michael Earls

Michael Earls has been programming computers since 1982, when his parents bought him his first home computer - the TI-99/4A. He enjoys writing music and playing video games in his spare time.

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Why I undeleted my Facebook account

OK, I lasted a few days anyway. I decided to undelete my Facebook account before it was too late. However, I tightened my security and privacy settings so that I would not get Friend requests from complete strangers. I decided…

Michael Earls 02 January 2016

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.Net - Creating a generic extension of "Contains" to see if there's something in a generic collection

Update: Added reference links at bottom of entry. I was working with some code today and needed to see if a list of custom DTOs contained an object based on a string value I had. Here is my solution. Some…

Michael Earls 05 December 2014

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Basic Authentication with AngularJS and WebAPI Part 2 - The Angular Client

Update: I’m an Angular newbie. I’ve learned a bit about Angular JS since this was written. As such, I don’t recommend using $scope as I did, I recommend using Controller as. I also believe that there may…

Michael Earls 23 September 2014

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First project with Adobe Illustrator CC

Laurie’s new job has her teaching preschool at the Jewish Educational Alliance here in Savannah. As part of her teaching, she needed a wheel that would let her students know what the day’s activity would be. I decided…

Michael Earls 06 September 2014

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Enabling Basic Authentication for Angular and jQuery clients for your ASP.NET WebApi

I have been working on a WebAPI for a client over the past few months and I’ve successfully implemented Basic authentication on my WebAPI and connected to it using a Xamarin Android client. I’ve come to a point…

Michael Earls 05 September 2014

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What lies beyond the limits of Mathematics?

I’ve been thinking about the universe lately and I’ve started wondering if the limitations of our understanding of the universe lies in the fact that our language of mathematics has limitations. Seriously, most of our observations (microcosms and…

Michael Earls 20 January 2010

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First Gaming Systems

When I was a kid, our first home gaming machine was the Telstar Pong console. I think it had four “games” and three levels of difficulty (the size of the “paddle” got smaller). Oddly enough, I still have this thing,…

Michael Earls 04 August 2009

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About Michael Earls

Michael Earls

Michael Earls has been programming computers since 1982, when his parents bought him his first home computer - the TI-99/4A. He enjoys writing music and playing video games in his spare time.

My musical creations

Alternate Theme