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Happy Holidays Niners

Jeff Sandquist — Sun, 23 Dec 2007 00:00:11 GMT

In keeping with what has become a holiday tradition here on Channel 9 he have Chris Anderson, Don Box and now Amanda Silver singing you a special holiday song.

You can compile along with them by grabbing the Very Beautiful holiday season! For even more holiday cheer, please check out episodes I, II,III and )
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Jeff Sandquist: Skateboarding, Channel 9 and Life at Microsoft

Jeff Sandquist — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 15:29:52 GMT

Rory, in one of his final interviews for Channel 9 turned around the camera and interviewed me (Jeff :-)) for Channel 9.

Here's the description Rory wrote for this piece:

Jeff Sandquist was there at the beginning. He has been behind the scenes at Channel 9 for years. He was part of the initial crew and has had a tremendous impact on the development of the site ever since. Oddly, despite his core involvement, Jeff has never before done a Channel 9 interview. Here, we get to talk to him just after he's come back from taking several months off, and he's in a very, very good mood :)

Shawn Burke : Discussing the Release of .NET Source Code

Jeff Sandquist — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 04:18:58 GMT

Matt Winkler and David Tesar catch up with Shawn Burke to talk about the announcement today that the source for the .NET Framework will be made available.

In this video we find out about how this is all going to work and see it in action as Shawn steps into the Windows Forms code from Visual Studio. Shawn also talks about how this has been something he has been working on for a long time in order to bring a really deep debugging experience for .NET developers.

Lots of excitement about this today for sure.

Pablo Castro: Astoria Data Services

Jeff Sandquist — Mon, 07 May 2007 16:32:45 GMT

Meet Pablo Castro one of the folks behind Astoria. Astoria exposes "data services" that enable applications to access and manipulate data over regular HTTP connections, using URIs to identify pieces of information within the data service, and simple payload formats such as XML and JSON to represent the data exchanged between the client and the server.

In this interview Pablo goes deep whiteboarding out Astoria. If you want to go even further on Astoria check out Pablo's session from Mix.

Bill Gates and Tim O'Reilly - A conversation at MIX

Jeff Sandquist — Tue, 21 Mar 2006 18:24:23 GMT

Lots of fun stuff happening at MIX this week. One highlight was a conversation between Tim O'Reilly and Bill Gates at the end of Bill's keynote on Monday.

Want more on MIX?

Visit the Technorati, Flickr and Virtual MIX for more on MIX.

See you all when we return...

(Sorry no download for this video right now - we'll get it added as soon as we can)

Learn how 10 was made

Jeff Sandquist — Mon, 13 Mar 2006 16:24:38 GMT

Channel 9 now has a sister :-)

This weekend we launched an all new community called 10 at http://on10.net

10 was built from the ground up using ASP.NET 2.0, SQL Server 2005 with a simple, easy to use design.

Our dream with 10 is to create a place for those people who want to use technology to change the world. Int his video Adam, Duncan, Erik and Jeff talk with Robert about how the site was built and the crazy weeks leading up to launching the site.

Since 10 was built by the same development team that builds this site, is their anything from the 10 experiene you'd like to see in Channel 9?

MSN Virtual Earth Team - Virtual Earth Ships

Jeff Sandquist — Mon, 25 Jul 2005 04:01:07 GMT

A couple of months ago we interviewed the Virtual Earth team and got an early look at what they were planning. They have now gone live so we went back and interviewed the team again. They jumped right into a demo and talked about some hot secret features: locate me and a developer SDK.

Want more?
Visit the Virtual Earth site at http://virtualearth.msn.com ( http://www.virtualearth.com should also work) to give it a test drive.

To see how Dare Obasanjo built a lookup for movies in your neighborhood, check out his Movie Finder site that is built using Virtual Earth.

Check out Chandu's blog who is from the Virtual Earth Team. I bet he'll have even more to share.

Pictured here is Steve Lombardi, program manager, Matthew Cheung, and Cody Ebberson (runs the developer program). The team is keeping a blog on MSN Spaces where they are responding to complaints and praise and giving even more tips.

Oh, and the "ViaVirtualEarth" site will have links to lots of developer information, among other info.

Codin' My Way to the PDC Contest

Jeff Sandquist — Tue, 07 Jun 2005 16:34:50 GMT

Here Michael talks about the Codin' My Way to the PDC contest and the Shareware Starter Kit.

Shareware Starter Kit Demo

Jeff Sandquist — Tue, 07 Jun 2005 16:31:46 GMT

So just what is the Shareware Starter Kit? In this video Michael Lehman (the new Channel 9 Podcaster) demonstrates the beta of the Shareware Starter Kit for Visual Studio 2005.

Submit an application written using this Starter kit and you might win tickets, accomodations and a $1000 (US) airfare voucher for PDC05.

Get started in the Codin' My Way to the PDC Contest Today!

Blog your way to the PDC

Jeff Sandquist — Tue, 07 Jun 2005 16:23:46 GMT

Who says it doesn't pay to blog? :-> In the Blog your way to the PDC contest you could win tickets, accomodations and a $1000.00 (US) airfare voucher for PDC05.

Scoble talks more about the contest in this video. Check out our special PDC section.

But the big question is... Just who is this mystery person behind the camera?

The PDC05 Flair

Jeff Sandquist — Tue, 07 Jun 2005 16:18:02 GMT

You want me to what on my weblog? :->

We've created some flair that we hope you'll put on your weblog to help promote the PDC. If you add them to your blog we'll add you to our Flair Sightings page that shows your address along with the number of referrals you've sent our way.

Don't like the versions we've created? No problem, you can create your own and upload them to our flair forum.

In this video Jeff talks more about the PDC Flair.

Pat Helland - Sings Bye Bye to Mr CIO Guy

Jeff Sandquist — Thu, 01 Jul 2004 03:00:28 GMT

What do you get when Pat Helland is on vocals, Don Box is on guitar and David Chappell is on piano?

You get a hilarious song direct from TechEd Europe.

Pat sings his version of Don McClean's American Pie.

The lyrics were written by Pat in response to Nicholas Carr’s Harvard Business Review paper “IT Doesn’t Matter” in which Mr. Carr proposes that businesses reconsider their IT investments. Pat says this is not the vision he sees for the future, but rather what is implied by reducing the investment in IT as proposed by Mr. Carr. This is a “speculative retrospective” in which we examine what happened “The Day That IT Died”.

For some of Pat’s technical work, please see www.pathelland.com