Research/Current Events
The Office Developer Conference has a fairly broad focus since you can do so much with the client and server products. VSTO customizations are definitely where it's at. VBA's role was relegated to talks on bridging it to VSTO. Interestingly, VBA isn't going away any time soon. There is too much of an investment in VBA technology at many companies to just abandon it. Of course, many companies had classic VB applications that became unsupported with the advent of .NET. I think that they will deprecate it eventually, or it will morph into a managed scripting environment (Monad? VSA?). VSTO...
This link is already a few days old, but I never got around to blogging about it until now. It's fascinating research that suggests that when we take in the same information by reading and hearing at the same time (following along in a book, or reading PowerPoint notes) we actually lose comprehension. Basically, our brain is doing double duty decoding the written words while decoding the spoken words, all while trying to analyze and organize the presented information. I can totally believe it. I have definitely noticed the challenge associated with trying to do both at once. The research...