Marketing messages really push the megapixel wars further and further. Hobbyist cameras are typically in the 20 to 24 megapixel range. Enthusiast and professional cameras are 40+ megapixels. My last two cameras were Nikon Z9 and Nikon D850, both 45.7 megapixels. That is 8256 x 5404 pixels. If you...
Brassing? Camera bodies used to be made of an alloy. Mostly brass. When the paint wore off, the brass became visible. That's where the term "brassing" comes from. Today's bodies are made of zinc and other light weight alloys ... note, many are also inexpensive plastics. But they are not that...
Nearly two years ago I wrote an article where I mentioned my two full kits spanning two technologies. The article was titled "Make up your own mind". Two take-away threads there, the most obvious is to make up your own mind on your needs, and the second (less obvious) is that I had two full sets of...
AutoIt is one of the first Task Automation tools that was available. It is a Basic-like scripting language for the Windows environment. I've used it all the way up to Windows 11 with no Windows compatibility issues. While there is a GUI component, using the GUI to automate tasks that involve...
No, definitely not. It is changing, but nowhere near dead. As of early 2026, there are approximately 61,400 pictures taken every second. 1.8 trillion for the year. What has changed is the gear used. As of early 2026, between 92% and 94% of all pictures taken are with cell phone cameras. Not...
The Jodit WYSIWYG editor is licensed MIT and authored in Typescript. I discovered it quite by accident while search for a WYSIWYG editor for my new project. I had previously used several other products, notably CKEditor and TinyMCE. I switched recently to Quill because the license models for...
How could such an oustanding project miss my attention? I've been using a number of different WYSIWYG editors in various projects over the years. These WYSIWYG editors provide the ability for admin users to create content (articles, news, etc.). There are usually two major bottlenecks with...
It's been awhile since I have inspected the DCP-Portal code. It's dated, no doubt about that. The code is well organized, but it is based entirely on functions with only two classes. The re-write is going much slower than I originally expected. Before inspecting the original code, I expected a...
DCP-Portal and ttCMS were withdrawn from the marketplace more than a decade ago. I am in process of completely re-writing DCP-Portal. It's a lot more than a simple code update. All the features are under re-evaluation, all the functionality improved for speed, and all the security upgraded....
SmartTemplate is a project that has seen many iterations over the past 20 years. Note, this is NOT Smarty Templating. SmartTemplate is one of the fore runners to many of the tokenizer engines. It's had its place and popularity over the years and one of the projects that has been fallow since...