My New and Most Beautiful Assignment

Blogging has been one of the things that I've enjoyed the most in the last couple of years. I really like the fact that it allows me to share news related to Office development with the community. For the first time in a couple years I'll have to take a break from blogging.

I am going to have a baby girl anytime now, so I am taking some months out of the office to take care of my little one, Sofía. Here's a cute little picture I have from her last ultrasound.

While I am gone, I'll have a guest blogger who has kindly accepted to post in my blog to keep you updated about Office developer content that we publish in the following months.

I want to introduce you all to Kelly Bowen-McCombs, our MSDN Office Developer Center managing editor. Kelly manages content publishing, our editorial calendar, and editorial guidelines for the MSDN Office Developer Center. More than that, she has been my editor and guardian Angel. Over the last few years, Kelly has edited almost every article I've written and I am forever thankful for all the great advice she has given me. Many of you know that English is my second language and I owe much to Kelly for being my mentor as a technical writer.

I definitely plan to continue this blog once I get back to share news about Office 14. In the mean time, Kelly will keep you informed. I'd also like to recommend the top ten blogs I always check-on for Office & SharePoint news:

  1. Doug Mahugh
  2. Pranav ... Blogging
  3. Eric White
  4. Eric Carter: NET4Office
  5. Darren Strange: Office Rocker
  6. SharePoint Team Blog
  7. Office Development with Visual Studio
  8. Paul Andrew
  9. Steve Fox: OBA Ramblings
  10. Patrick Tisseghem

I recommend that you also subscribe to the Office Developer Documentation & DPE OPML:

https://www.microsoft.com/feeds/msdn/en-us/office/devdocs.opml

You should also check the OPML and Office dev bloggers lists we keep on MSDN:

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/office/aa905342.aspx

I really want to thank all the followers of my blog for hanging on there. I am sure I'll miss blogging a lot. People here at the office make fun of me when I say that I may even blog occasionally while I am gone. We'll see how much time I have left for that once Sofía arrives.