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 Nov 8, 2016 4:17:16 PM
This is a story of three friends who built houses. Sooner or later this will get around to something to do with code. One of the friends (let's call him …
Read Storyby John Browne, on Oct 25, 2016 1:46:17 PM
It's been almost a year since we announced our last major release of AI Migrator and today we're doing it again. GAP AI Migrator represents a tremendous effort by our …
Read Storyby 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
When you assign version numbers to software, you usually need a pretty good reason to change the first digit. Well today's one of those days. VBUC 7.0, available now here, …
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 …
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