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.
Recent Posts by John Browne:
by John Browne, on Oct 11, 2016 6:05:40 PM
Recently we announced the availability of a migration tool to move PowerBuilder apps to Java-based web apps. In a nutshell we migrate all the PB forms to HTML with Angular …
Read Storyby John Browne, on Oct 4, 2016 11:15:28 AM
You may be troubled by the seeming complexity of web applications compared to a relatively-simple Windows desktop (ie .NET or VB) app. I hear this from time to time when …
Read Storyby John Browne, on Jun 1, 2016 10:21:28 AM
Recently I had the opportunity to spend some time with a customer for whom we had just completed a migration. One of the things we discussed was the economic issues …
Read Storyby 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 Mar 2, 2016 4:52:07 PM
The last big company I worked at (Microsoft) had a LOT of desktops (as you can well imagine). And of course they also had a lot of internal apps that …
Read Storyby John Browne, on Feb 17, 2016 4:00:00 AM
Please Note: The VBUC has been renamed to VB6 AI Migrator as of August 2025 When you assign version numbers to software, you usually need a pretty good reason to …
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 …
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