Brian Keller
Brian Keller: Technical Evangelist for Visual Studio ALM.
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I am a Sr. Technical Evangelist for Microsoft's Visual Studio Application Lifecycle Management technologies. I have the pleasure of working with all of the great people who make up the product development, marketing, and field teams who work on Visual Studio's application lifecycle management capabilities. Every day we strive to help make software development and testing teams around the world more efficient at what they do best: building great software. You can learn more by checking out our book, Professional Application Lifecycle Management with Visual Studio 2010.I also get to co-host a weekly software development news show with my friend and co-worker Dan Fernandez. Check us out every Friday(ish), bringing you This Week on Channel 9.I've been with Microsoft since 2002. Prior to my current role I worked on the XNA team, and before that the Visual Studio team. Before joining Microsoft I co-founded a couple of companies, including 352 Media Group. I also worked at Barr Systems for a while as a support analyst/professional services consultant, specializing in mainframe-to-PC connectivity and printing solutions (useless knowledge now, but it was fun stuff at the time!).When I'm not working I am usually climbing something or making music.If you want to know more, just email me.Brian
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TWC9: VS11 RC UI Updates, Portable Library v2 Beta, Hilo for Win 8 and more
May 17, 2012 at 9:34 AM@aL_:Yep, it won't be long before you see more of the dark theme - it wasn't quite ready at the time that blog post was written which is the reason you didn't see screenshots.
TWC9: VS11 RC UI Updates, Portable Library v2 Beta, Hilo for Win 8 and more
May 16, 2012 at 5:01 PM@gahayden:LOL! This was one of my favorite ever comments on TWC9. Thanks for making me smile.
And hey... being included in the same category as Bill Cosby isn't necessarily a bad thing in my book.
Countdown to TechEd Europe 2012: Tulips and TechExpo
Apr 17, 2012 at 6:31 PM@j9:Nice job rolling those 'r' on 'RoozenGarde' Jeannine! Impressive.
Good video you two - looking forward to TechEd.
TWC9: Windows 8 and Azure, Rx v2, Metro Advertising SDK, Portable libs and more
Mar 19, 2012 at 12:27 PM@JohnEgbert:Yep, my bad.
We added a post-production note (above) to that effect as soon as I realized my mistake after filming, but thanks for keeping us honest John!
Upgrading to Team Foundation Server 11: Core Server Upgrade
Mar 08, 2012 at 8:12 AMMohamed, thanks for sharing!!! I wonder if there's a way to upload a higher quality version of your video to YouTube? It was very fuzzy and I didn't see a higher quality version.
Upgrading to Team Foundation Server 11: Process Templates
Mar 08, 2012 at 8:10 AMHi Mohamed, I'm glad you like it! I agree that Ed and Ewald did a great job. The team is hard at work on the TFS11 version of the Team Foundation Power Tools (which includes the Process Template Editor). I don't have an exact timeframe to share yet but stay tuned.
TWC9: VS 11 Beta, Go Live, TFS Express, SkyDrive, Touch Guidance and more
Feb 27, 2012 at 12:04 PM@PerfectPhase: That's a good question and the short answer is I don't know. I've sent an email to the program manager for our test automation so if I can get some more information I'll let you know. Of course there is a lot you can benefit from by using MTM even for application stacks which cannot be automated. Just the ability to capture rich analytics (video, audio, InteliTrace, event logs) and track your test cases from requirements down to execution carries a lot of value with it. Check out my software testing talk (the pick of the week) when you get a chance. I tried to show a few of my favorite features across all of the testing tooling and only one of them relies on test automation (the "fast forward" capability).
TWC9: Snowpocalypse, VS Achievements, 101 Async samples, & more
Jan 24, 2012 at 1:48 PMHa! You just made me laugh out loud in a meeting. I love it.
Visual Studio Toolbox: Manual Testing
Jan 04, 2012 at 11:49 AMThanks for the kind words, Tarun!
TWC9: The Top 9 Developer Stories & Trends of 2011
Jan 01, 2012 at 2:41 PMOops! Are you serious?
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