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 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 …
Read Storyby John Browne, on Apr 30, 2015 4:22:00 PM
If you ever wondered what it's like to be in the midst of 5000 Windows developers, you should come to //Build/ some time. I'm fortunate enough that I'm here this …
Read Storyby John Browne, on Apr 2, 2015 2:55:06 PM
Note: the following is courtesy of Hugo Fernandez, who is responsible for much of the recent improvements in the VB6 AI Migrator. I asked Hugo for some specific improvements made …
Read Storyby John Browne, on Mar 23, 2015 5:58:00 PM
Please Note: The VBUC has been renamed to VB6 AI Migrator as of August 2025 The same things that made VB6 such a wildly popular development environment make it tough …
Read Storyby John Browne, on Feb 3, 2015 8:53:00 AM
Ok, it's all very fine and dandy to talk about the case for automated migration from .NET to HTML5 as a way to reuse proven code, but what are the …
Read Storyby John Browne, on Jan 29, 2015 4:54:00 PM
Let's say you've got a line of business (LOB) application that just chugs along, doing its line of business thing, day after day, week after week, year after year. Every …
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