Jeff Sandquist

Hi there, I am Senior Director of Developer Relations at Microsoft. I helped create the popular Channel 9 Developer Community, one of the first corporate blogs and a pioneer in the social space, and still lead this team to this day. My team makes the Channel 9 and Mix Communities rock. If you’ve seen something [...]

I take many photographs each week. A church in the small Canadian village of Benson, Saskatchewan. My parents were married in this church.

A dock at my friend John Reeve’s cabin at Lake Kachess.

3 P-51 Mustang’s that I captured at a recent event with the Flying Heritage Collection at Payne Field.

Last summer our oldest daughter was married and I had the awesome responsibility of saying a few words at the wedding reception to the newly married bride and groom. I do a fair amount of speaking in my job as an Evangelist at Microsoft, but this was a very different talk. After a lot of [...]

Photo Credit:Peregrino Will Reign Yes it is. I just finished a migration to WordPress from Graffiti CMS. It took awhile, but I was able to sucessfully import all of my posts and finally configure WordPress so that my all of my permalinks are preserved. In case you were wondering, on the server side this site [...]

Photo Credit: Sweet Juniper I miss blogging. I know a number of people have written over the last few months that with the rise of social networks like Twitter and Facebook, that people are blogging less. This isn’t about that. This about the lack of story telling or opinion in many of today’s personal tech [...]

 Today our Mix Online team shipped Glimmer. Glimmer is a wizard that allows you to easily create interactive elements on your web pages by harnessing the power of the jQuery library. Without having to hand-craft your JavaScript code, you can use Glimmer’s wizards to generate jQuery scripts for common interactive scenarios. Glimmer also has an [...]

I joined Twitter on December 24th, 2006 and it has been wonderful to see the service grow. In the beginning I used it mostly via text messages as a way to help keep track of friends while we were travelling together. It was great for helping find out where friends were going out to dinner [...]

Late at night, I often listen to the radio as it helps me unwind, wash away the day as I’m finishing up email for the day or attempting to drift off to sleep. My preference is to listen to open line type programs like Dr. Bill Wattenburg on KGO AM, Bruce Williams and even the [...]