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 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 …
Read Storyby John Browne, on Jun 13, 2018 3:27:44 PM
We recently updated our GAP AI Migrator architecture posts to reflect the significant improvements that GAP AI Migrator makes in generated app code (compared to previous versions). If you haven't …
Read Storyby John Browne, on Jun 6, 2018 1:03:04 PM
Before we jump into the last installment, let's briefly review what we leaned in part 1 and part 2. If you're just jumping into this here, you probably want to …
Read Storyby John Browne, on May 9, 2018 5:47:14 PM
Instead of boring old words today I just decided to show you some Build 2018. So check out the completely unedited video. And congrats to our XBox winners. We went …
Read Storyby John Browne, on May 8, 2018 5:39:34 PM
Tuesday May 8 dawned foggy with a promise of clear blue skies later. There was no fogginess in Microsoft's announcement of .NET Core 3, however where they are doing a …
Read Storyby John Browne, on May 7, 2018 5:17:53 PM
Build is Microsoft's annual homage to dorkiness and it's here in full glory. The de rigueur attire is a teeshirt with some kind of nerdy slogan or product (acceptable alternatives …
Read Storyby John Browne, on May 6, 2018 8:00:00 PM
When I first joined Mobilize.Net--actually before I joined Mobilize.Net, since I was interviewing for the job--and I heard the business model was tools to do code conversion, I. Was. Skeptical …
Read Storyby John Browne, on Mar 1, 2018 6:00:00 AM
Not every legacy app has a database connection but I've yet to see one of any size or value that didn't. That said, we here at Mobilize have largely left …
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