As I venture into the depths of AS3 – I find myself pulling my hair out yet again (and those of you who know me know I have no hair left, so that’s not a good thing). Loading multiple images in Flash is (in my opinion) one of the most basic tasks you should be able to perform – and yet I have struggled with this for the past several hours in AS3. This will be basic knowledge to many of you, but bare with me.
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I cannot begin to tell you how painfully true this is. The other thing I get a lot of is “Oooh! I have this idea for a cool website! Can you do it?.”

The answer is always no.

After doing a great deal of research on Apple Aperture vs. Adobe Lightroom, I finally landed on Apple’s Aperture. Not so much because the feature set was amazing, but because I had already bought Aperture v1 a while back and figured the upgrade would be cheaper.

Now, there are countless reviews of both products that are fantastic for anyone trying to decide, but I can tell you that after using both products, I can say that both of them are freakin’ awesome, and you simply can’t go wrong with either one. It really boils down to a matter of preference (and computing power actually — as Aperture practically demands an Intel Mac Pro).

Anywho, I won’t get into that right now. My focus at the moment is on Aperture’s export to gallery feature (which I use constantly). I simply love the simplicity of exporting an Aperture gallery. It’s an elegant way of presenting your work to the world, and you can even password-protect your galleries so you can publish an entire photo shoot for your client — and your client only. Very cool.

But there is one MAJOR flaw with Aperture’s gallery feature which confuses me to no end. And that’s the fact that there is no way to publish the photo’s caption – only the photo’s file name. Perhaps there is good logic behind this for professional photographers (even though I fail to see it) – but the fact that you can publish captions to the same gallery using iPhoto and not Aperture completely blows my mind.

Of course, the simple solution is to drag my photos over to iPhoto, and publish from there…but that is not the point here. The point is that the feature already exists — and porting it to Aperture would take Apple’s engineers a whopping two minutes (by my very scientific and precise calculations).

So there you have it. Aperture rocks — but no captions? In the immortal words of Gob…COME ON!!!!!

If you use your Google Calendar on your iPhone or Blackberry, CalDAV support might be of interest to you [update: or not]. You might also consider third-party alternatives (which I have not tried, but hear are very good).

[update: anyone else getting a “calendar not found” error?]

[update: hmm…seems to be back up for me. Google is such a tease.]

Salesforce’s CEO (Marc Benioff) – speaking on what he believes is the next wave of innovation to the internet – claims the era of Web 3.0 has already begun.

Although the article very much feels like Salesforce trying to establish their leadership position, Benioff makes some good points with which I agree. Making predictions is always a risky business (particularly in technology) but the idea of entrepreneurs not having to worry about data infrastructure anymore makes more sense when you see the success of companies who are already “renting” their computing power (Amazon S3, Google App Engine, Salesforce) for pennies – making computing on the cloud not only possible and reliable, but accessible to anyone.