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Adobe Audition for Mac now in public beta

Just wanted to give a brief shoutout to Adobe Audition which now has its first ever Mac version in public beta on Adobe Labs! I’m a big fan of Audition and am SUPER excited its on the Mac as it was one of the only reasons I would ever drag out my archaic PC.

One of the best things about Audition is its built-in workflows with Adobe Premiere – its essentially trivial to coordinate music and video into something elegant (I’ve chopped up my classical Indian dance clips a billion times over and built out my entire portfolio using just those two tools). Download and install Adobe Audition for Mac now and check out these videos which help give you an intro into some of the cool new features…w00t!

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Late Night Coding

I remember back in college I would sit down in lab (at Berkeley the undergraduate computer labs were basically dungeons set two floors underground) and start working on a project and glance up and realize 8 hours had passed by in a flash. Those were the days – it was just so easy to get in THE ZONE.

Now I’m lucky if I have that feeling a few times a year. Working without interruptions is pretty much impossible, especially during the day in my office. This is where I have re-found night coding. True, its hard when you have a full-time job where you’re expected to be chipper and at the office by 9 AM, but man its so worth it. I have a couple of side projects (Flash + video stuff) that have just laid stale for several months now and I find that if I start working on them closer to my bed time (read: 10 pm, I am a granny) I can bypass sleepiness and hammer away for several hours and feel really productive.

Score! Hair. Flip.

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SILVAFUG Presentations This Week

Hey Folks – Just a quick announcement that I, along with members of the Flash Catalyst and AIR teams, will be presenting at the Silicon Valley Flex User Group meetings on Tuesday and Thursday of this week. Tuesday’s meeting is at Adobe San Jose and Thursday’s meeting is at Adobe San Francisco. More details can be found here.

I’ll be reviewing announcements and items of interest from MAX, including:

  • Flex Hero updates for mobile & desktop development (and demos!)
  • Flash Builder Burrito updates (and demos)
  • Falcon (code-name for the next generation compiler project)
  •  Updates on Flex open source efforts

Hope to see some familiar faces there. Holla!

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Flex Product Management Team is Hiring!

Even though we’re hard at work on the upcoming releases of Flex SDK, Flash Builder and Flash Catalyst, preview releases of which we made available just recently, the product management team is already working on plans for the next generation of the Flex framework and tooling.

To support this effort, we’re now looking to hire three new product managers to the team and we’re hoping that you could be the right person for one of those positions!

As a product manager you will play a critical role in defining product features and communicating requirements with multiple engineering teams, you will be responsible for approving engineering specifications and validating that completed features meet customer requirements, and you’ll be the person who drives consensus on product requirements and ensures decisions are made in a timely manner.

The positions we have open are as follows:

Product management is an all-encompassing role that is both exciting and demanding – if you’re ready for a challenge and want to be a part of the team that defines the future of Flex, designer/developer workflows and developer tooling then we’d like to hear from you.

To express your interest in one or more of these roles please send your resume to dsubrama at adobe.com, or apply using the Adobe career opportunity website.

Thanks,

Andrew Shorten, Group Product Manager, Developer Tools
Deepa Subramaniam, Senior Product Manager, Flex SDK

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Flex Roadmap (MAX Session) on Adobe TV

My session from MAX, Flex Roadmap, is now available for viewing on Adobe TV. Its definitely worth checking out – I cover a brief update of the next version of Flex, and then move onto topics like open source, themes and features for the next releases of Flex, the next-generation Flex compiler as well as improvements being pondered for the runtimes and virtual machine.

Check it out!

http://tv.adobe.com/watch/max-2010-develop/flex-roadmap-/

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