Brian Keller

Group Program Manager, Visual Studio Team Services

Censorship.

ABC affiliates pulling 'Private Ryan' <political commentary>It's a sad state of affairs that,...

Author: Brian Keller Date: 11/11/2004

Blogging in line waiting for Halo 2...

...just because I can. I'm waiting outside the Microsoft company store and I'm #15 in line. I can't...

Author: Brian Keller Date: 11/09/2004

I don't need a Rolex. Thanks.

Dear Spammers (or, "high volume email deployers") - Thank you for your recent plethora of e-mails...

Author: Brian Keller Date: 11/08/2004

Mutant League Football: Bring it back!

Mutant League Football was, in my opinion, one of the best video games ever made. It was released in...

Author: Brian Keller Date: 11/07/2004

idx3d engine ported to J#

This is a really cool 3-D graphics engine that was originally authored in Java which has now been...

Author: Brian Keller Date: 11/01/2004

What's Google going to do with Keyhole?

https://money.cnn.com/2004/10/27/technology/google_keyhole.reut/ I'm wondering what Google intends to...

Author: Brian Keller Date: 10/31/2004

The grinch of Halloween

No, I'm not the grinch of Halloween. I love Halloween. It's probably my second favorite holiday. My...

Author: Brian Keller Date: 10/30/2004

Voicemail SPAM and other election woes...

Virtually every phone call I get at home nowadays is a 30-second political ad. I've lost track of...

Author: Brian Keller Date: 10/28/2004

Come Experience the Visual Studio Hosted Experience

I've been so busy working on the Visual Studio Hosted Experience (VSHE) that I've been slack about...

Author: Brian Keller Date: 10/14/2004

TheServerSide.net interview

**10/8 Update to fix links.I had the opportunity to be interviewed by Ted Neward of...

Author: Brian Keller Date: 10/05/2004

XBox: So many titles, so little time...

I am itching to play Star Wars: Battlefront, and Fable has peaked my interest as well. Of course,...

Author: Brian Keller Date: 09/23/2004

C# 'that' keyword

My younger brother, Danny, is doing the same graduate program that I did at the University of...

Author: Brian Keller Date: 09/23/2004

Back off, Jeanne!

That's right! Turn tail and go back to the ocean. We've had enough of your kind...

Author: Brian Keller Date: 09/21/2004

The Monetary Economics of Thurston Howell III

This is a really amusing - and educational - article about the use of the Millionaire's (and his...

Author: Brian Keller Date: 09/01/2004

.NET Framework 1.1 SP1 and .NET Framework 1.0 SP3 now available

This is an exciting month for service packs. Note the separate download for Windows Server 2003...

Author: Brian Keller Date: 08/31/2004

DevDays 2004 Content Available Online

Couldn't make it to DevDays 2004? Don't worry - now you can download streaming videos of all of the...

Author: Brian Keller Date: 08/27/2004

Hurricane coming after my hometown...

I am glued to MSNBC watching Hurricane Charley updates. Last night I figured it would be a...

Author: Brian Keller Date: 08/13/2004

"False Positives" on Google

Recently I was talking to my friend about Googling for people's names. She's dating a few people...

Author: Brian Keller Date: 08/11/2004

Lookout: Rapid index and search capabilities for Outlook

https://www.lookoutsoft.com/Lookout/ To quote my friend Alim, “I have been using it for a...

Author: Brian Keller Date: 08/05/2004

Newlyweds @ 10:00 pm, MTV, tonight

If you were at Tech-Ed in San Diego then you may have seen Jessica Simpson perform at the Microsoft...

Author: Brian Keller Date: 08/04/2004

"Heated" discussion

It's time I threw my two cents into the air conditioning discussion from Dan's blog (see...

Author: Brian Keller Date: 08/02/2004

ISV Buddy Program

I got my first 5 "buddies" today as part of the ISV Buddy Program! This is a really cool way for...

Author: Brian Keller Date: 07/28/2004

.NET Framework 1.0 SP3 and 1.1 SP1 Tech Preview Available for Public Download

**Updated 8/31 with new links to the official releases, replacing the links to the technology...

Author: Brian Keller Date: 07/02/2004

J# Browser Controls v1.1b now available

J# Browser Controls v1.1b is now available for...

Author: Brian Keller Date: 06/30/2004

Cool new sample app: FotoVision

https://msdn.microsoft.com/smartclient/codesamples/fotovision/ This is a sample best practices...

Author: Brian Keller Date: 06/16/2004

"Resources for Java Developers" dev center live

We've finally got the “Resources for Java Developers” dev center live on MSDN thanks to...

Author: Brian Keller Date: 06/05/2004

TechEd Attendees: Get the CTP of Visual Studio 2005 from the booths!!

The Community Technology Preview of Visual Studio 2005 represents the latest build available out of...

Author: Brian Keller Date: 05/24/2004

Going to TechEd? Calling all Java developers!

I know TechEd isn't the most likely place to find a Java developer, but if you're out there here are...

Author: Brian Keller Date: 05/22/2004

American Idol

This just in: Phone Snags Thwart 'Idol' Voters! Ok, Captain Obvious. But here's the interesting...

Author: Brian Keller Date: 05/17/2004

MSDN Webcast: Microsoft Java Virtual Machine Transition

I did a Webcast yesterday that's online now. You can view the archive of that...

Author: Brian Keller Date: 04/21/2004

Visual C++ toolkit, and other .NET compilers

The C++ team just launched a campaign to educate people about the free C++ compiler and resources...

Author: Brian Keller Date: 04/19/2004

Jagged Alliance source code released

This news is about a month old, but I just discovered that Strategy First has released the source...

Author: Brian Keller Date: 04/17/2004

Web sites - they can make your day, or drive you nuts.

It's truly amazing how much the Web enables us to do. Think of how much time it saves you -...

Author: Brian Keller Date: 04/16/2004

Personalized marketing

This is really cool. Reason magazine is personalizing their covers with satellite imagery showing...

Author: Brian Keller Date: 04/06/2004

Tony Goodhew joins the blogging circle!

When I first joined Microsoft as J# product manager, I was taking over the responsibility from Tony...

Author: Brian Keller Date: 03/31/2004

Generics

Dan Fernandez, Eric Gunnerson and I recently talked with Julia Lerman about Generics in Whidbey and...

Author: Brian Keller Date: 03/25/2004

Win $100,000

I just got back from two weeks of travel + R&R, so no time to blog really... but I did find this...

Author: Brian Keller Date: 03/23/2004

An Intense Lunch

Recently I submitted two pieces of feedback to the MSDN Help team. Then I second guessed myself as...

Author: Brian Keller Date: 02/29/2004

J# Browser Controls v1.1b in Beta

We just released the beta of J# Browser Controls v1.1b! Here are the new features: Scripting support...

Author: Brian Keller Date: 02/16/2004

Marketing plastic

Well, looks like everybody's favorite couple Barbie and Ken are no longer an item after 43 years....

Author: Brian Keller Date: 02/12/2004

Frequent Flyer Excise Charge

Wow - long time no blog. I honestly never thought I'd be one of those people who starts blogging...

Author: Brian Keller Date: 02/07/2004

Home sweet home

Well this is my first blog entry in several months. Yes, I got caught up with life and work and have...

Author: Brian Keller Date: 12/16/2003

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