John started programming computers in the 1970s when you had to use punch cards and wait until tomorrow to get your compile finished. In the ensuing years, he moved from mainframes to PCs and was an early employee at Microsoft, working on multiple products include Visual C++ and Excel. Since joining Mobilize.Net in 2012, he's been focused on helping customers understand their options to modernize legacy software. John and his wife live on a hobby farm near Seattle, WA with three chickens and two Border Collies.
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by John Browne, on May 12, 2016 10:27:57 AM
In the first part of this series, we spent some time discussing how complex web application coding can be. Web sites are simple; web apps are hard. The good news …
Read Storyby John Browne, on May 3, 2016 7:00:00 AM
Historically we at GAP have focused on tools to transform app source code from one desktop platform to another, newer, desktop platform--the best known of these is VB6 AI Migrator …
Read Storyby John Browne, on Feb 4, 2016 9:41:55 AM
Ok, 2016 is a leap year which means February has an extra day, right? But did you know that there could be another leap year bug waiting to happen on …
Read Storyby John Browne, on Dec 9, 2015 6:00:00 AM
Recently a customer wrote us, saying "Hey, if Microsoft says VB6 is still supported and will be for years and years, why should I worry? Why bother to migrate my …
Read Storyby John Browne, on Dec 3, 2015 10:00:00 AM
The GAPVelocity AI Silverlight Bridge is now released for general availability. This tool, which greatly reduces the effort to transform Windows Silverlight Phone 8.x code to the new Universal Windows …
Read Storyby John Browne, on Nov 10, 2015 6:24:26 PM
Today I'm excited to tell you about the newest release of AI Migrator (ie AI Migrator 3), with support for the popular AngularJS framework and Bootstrap for styling. When we …
Read Storyby John Browne, on Nov 6, 2015 11:20:55 AM
I love hearing from our customers but the email waiting for me while I was drinking my first cup of coffee was disturbing. A prospective customer wrote to say their …
Read Storyby John Browne, on Oct 21, 2015 6:00:00 AM
Please Note: The VBUC has been renamed to VB6 AI Migrator as of August 2025 When I worked in the Visual C++ (now Visual Studio) group at Microsoft, one of …
Read Storyby John Browne, on Oct 20, 2015 10:31:44 AM
The PowerBuilder to Java/HTML5 Migration is the leading way for migrating legacy PowerBuilder code to the Java framework and the most modern HTML5 portable UI. Our automated migration technology has …
Read Storyby John Browne, on Sep 30, 2015 12:16:23 PM
If you’re used to developing for Windows (or MacOS or Linux or really any desktop OS) and you are contemplating a Web version of your application, there are a variety …
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