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 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 8, 2017, 11:33:36 AM
If you've been following this blog then you know I'm excited about the benefits of DevOps, which I think can be a huge game changer for software development. If you …
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 …
Read Storyby John Browne, on Oct 16, 2017, 2:31:32 PM
(Most of the following is true. Some details have been changed to protect the guilty.) I met up with my buddy Don recently for beers and to enjoy the last …
Read Storyby John Browne, on Sep 15, 2017, 2:59:52 PM
Let's return briefly to 2002--a year both celebrated for its numerologic significance to middle-aged BMW owners and darkened by its Billboard #1 hit. Largely outlasting the former and certainly more …
Read Storyby John Browne, on Aug 30, 2017, 5:03:19 PM
We have a new video up today addressing the question of how state is handled in AI Migrator apps. This concept is multi-layered and so the video is merely an …
Read Storyby John Browne, on Aug 22, 2017, 11:05:24 AM
Being an introduction into how GAP AI Migrator implements ASP.NET MVC in generated code. GAP AI Migrator takes a C# desktop app and converts it to a web app. The …
Read Storyby John Browne, on Jul 25, 2017, 1:43:32 PM
IN THE BEGINNING THERE WAS THE WEB. Actually in the beginning was DOS, then Windows, then Visual Basic, then .NET. But we'll get back to them later. Consider: The Advanced …
Read Storyby John Browne, on May 17, 2017, 9:00:00 AM
Friday May 12 saw the worst cyber attack in years, as a worm (WannaCry, Wanna, or Wcry) spread through computer networks encrypting files and demanding a ransom of anywhere from …
Read Storyby John Browne, on Apr 19, 2017, 7:30:00 AM
Migrating off VB6 has never been more important. Every passing day VB6 gets riskier and more problematic to keep around. Millions of lines of Visual Basic 6.0 code still run …
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