The parts of PowerBuilder modernization that don't show up in a line-count. There's a comforting fiction in application migration: that a database-heavy app is mostly its queries, and if you …

Two users open the same customer record at 4:58 on a Friday. Both change the credit limit. In the PowerBuilder application that's run the business for eighteen years, the second …

Preserve Behavior, Not Just Code There's a particular kind of modernization failure that never shows up in a demo. The new application compiles. The screens render. The tests, the ones …

The Adversarial Validator A confidently wrong answer is the most expensive output an AI system can produce. In a chat interface, the cost of a hallucination is capped by human …

Breaking changes, dependency debt, and where the hours go. Here's a preview for teams planning ahead. With .NET 11 shipping in November 2026 and .NET 8 hitting end-of-life the same …

On November 10, 2026, both .NET 8 and .NET 9 reach end of support. The same day. That's roughly five months away, and it's a weird situation. Normally, choosing a …

.NET 11 Preview 5 turns end-of-life and known-CVE status into a build warning. That's an important shift that draws a line between the codebases that participate in modern lifecycle hygiene …

I watched the full .NET Day Agentic Modernization, and it was fantastic. You should definitely watch it. The GitHub Copilot app modernization agent did legit work: AST-aware project-system migration (packagesconfig …

Twenty-eight years ago Microsoft unleashed Visual Basic 6.0 on a world that was blissfully unaware of the concept of "technical debt." We dug up the original press release and added …

MS Access breaks almost every assumption a file-counting tool makes because the entire application lives inside a single binary database. The code, the queries, the macros, and half the business …