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.
Recent Posts by John Browne:
by 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 Feb 16, 2018, 4:40:54 PM
4GLs were quite the thing in the 80s and 90s. Everybody either had one, sold one, or was talking about getting one. For a while, it seemed like actually writing …
Read Storyby John Browne, on Feb 7, 2018, 9:25:03 AM
It doesn't take a lot of looking to find companies who claim to modernize your legacy applications by moving them to the cloud. The question is: Does this actually modernize …
Read Storyby John Browne, on Feb 1, 2018, 1:59:17 PM
Well, April showers may bring May flowers but this May you also get two new EU regulations that might wet your spirits: GDPR and new cybersecurity standards. Note: I'm not …
Read Storyby John Browne, on Dec 25, 2017, 6:00:00 AM
(With apologies to the Muppets--I mean Charles Dickens). Sunday, Dec 24, 2017 Ebeneezer Scrooge contemplated first the array of HD monitors arranged on his desk, then the view of Seattle …
Read Storyby John Browne, on Dec 20, 2017, 11:51:41 AM
We have a calculator. I made it. The purpose of the calculator is to help you estimate the cost of rewriting that legacy application from scratch compared to the cost …
Read Storyby John Browne, on Dec 5, 2017, 10:30:54 AM
DevOps is a pretty hot topic today, and if you feel like maybe everyone but you is doing it and you're not even sure what "it" is, this is your …
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