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 Apr 1, 2017, 6:00:00 AM
Our skunkworks team has been working overtime on a new product that I think is a real game changer. Before I tell you about it, let me set the stage …
Read Storyby John Browne, on Mar 21, 2017, 6:00:00 AM
Please Note: The VBUC has been renamed to VB6 AI Migrator as of August 2025 In our continuing struggle to make the world safe from nasty old legacy code, we …
Read Storyby John Browne, on Mar 3, 2017, 2:33:35 PM
TL/DR: It's not an infinity symbol. The logo for Visual Studio looks a lot like the symbol for infinity--which might make you wonder if that's the expected compile time for …
Read Storyby John Browne, on Mar 2, 2017, 5:25:28 PM
As part of what will be a brief but on-going series celebrating Visual Studio's 20th anniversary, I bring you a short video: Who did Ballmer hate more? Ok, some explanation …
Read Storyby John Browne, on Feb 16, 2017, 2:32:42 PM
Can you believe it? 20 years ago it was Visual Studio 1.0 and this year it will be Visual Studio 2017. Microsoft is launching the next version of the world's …
Read Storyby John Browne, on Feb 13, 2017, 4:15:15 PM
From the news desk: Back to the future: The VB.NET team blogs about the future of VB.NET. Whether this is just badly written or deliberately ambiguous I can't say but …
Read Storyby John Browne, on Feb 8, 2017, 3:13:52 PM
The little sailboat pounded through the Caribbean chop, motoring northeast against the trade winds to Antigua. My wife and two young children, all prone to seasickness, lay like so many …
Read Storyby John Browne, on Jan 4, 2017, 3:13:29 PM
Assuming you didn't just arrive from another planet you've heard (plenty) about the hack of the Democratic National Committee's email. The aftershocks continue to reverberate through the American political spectrum …
Read Storyby John Browne, on Dec 21, 2016, 2:32:51 PM
About a million years ago, when dinosaurs walked the Earth, I used to have to troubleshoot a PDP-11 with a multimeter at the backplane. PDPs are gone and nobody anymore …
Read Storyby John Browne, on Nov 30, 2016, 10:00:00 AM
GAPVelocity AI Application Modernization Starter Kit When I was a kid I had a pet turtle. I loved that turtle. One day I noticed it wasn't eating well. I watched …
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