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. John Browne has 4.9M Quora answer views; 18K+ upvotes and 1,381 followers on Quora. He's also been published on Forbes and Huffington Post. John joined Mobilize.Net in 2012, were he 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. He retired in 2024 and couldn't be happier.
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by John Browne, on Mar 4, 2019, 2:20:04 PM
The DataWindow object is the cornerstone of PowerBuilder application development. PowerBuilder apps are largely designed around accessing databases, typically for CRUD (Create, Read, Update, Delete) operations. In fact, most business …
Read Storyby John Browne, on Dec 19, 2018, 3:55:45 PM
Recently one of our account executives asked me an interesting question. He had been contacted by an ISV who was slogging through a rewrite of a very large (millions of …
Read Storyby John Browne, on Nov 29, 2018, 6:02:00 AM
(Note: this is the part 3 in a four part series--if you're just starting here I would urge you to go back to Part 1 and 2 and read them …
Read Storyby John Browne, on Nov 29, 2018, 6:02:00 AM
Note: this is part 2 of a four part series. If you stumbled in here from the street, here's part 1 to help get you oriented. If you want to …
Read Storyby John Browne, on Nov 29, 2018, 6:02:00 AM
Extinction is normal The word "extinction" makes me visualize a couple of dinosaurs, seeing a huge fireball in the sky rushing toward Earth. One says to the other, "Wonder what …
Read Storyby John Browne, on Nov 19, 2018, 2:00:33 PM
Recently at a Microsoft event, I heard that there are still over two million desktop application developers--that is, currently writing or maintaining Windows desktop apps, whether written in C++ or …
Read Storyby John Browne, on Oct 23, 2018, 7:45:00 AM
Eike Michel had a problem. The Director of Research and Development at Aucotec, in Hannover, Germany, was responsible for a 18 year old VB6 program that was a critical piece …
Read Storyby John Browne, on Sep 24, 2018, 8:00:00 AM
Today we're all pretty excited that Syncfusion has announced support for AI Migrator, which means if you have Windows Forms apps using their controls you can now easily map them …
Read Storyby John Browne, on Sep 10, 2018, 8:00:00 AM
Please Note: The VBUC has been renamed to VB6 AI Migrator as of August 2025 Today we feature two announcements: one from an established global leader in development tools and …
Read Storyby John Browne, on Jun 21, 2018, 1:03:10 PM
In our last blog post, we looked at how to change the styling of individual elements in our migrated Angular application. Just a reminder in case you haven't been following …
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