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 Oct 4, 2016, 11:15:28 AM
You may be troubled by the seeming complexity of web applications compared to a relatively-simple Windows desktop (ie .NET or VB) app. I hear this from time to time when …
Read Storyby John Browne, on Jun 1, 2016, 10:21:28 AM
Recently I had the opportunity to spend some time with a customer for whom we had just completed a migration. One of the things we discussed was the economic issues …
Read Storyby John Browne, on May 12, 2016, 10:27:57 AM
In the first part of this series, we spent some time discussing how complex web application coding can be. Web sites are simple; web apps are hard. The good news …
Read Storyby John Browne, on May 3, 2016, 7:00:00 AM
Historically we at GAP have focused on tools to transform app source code from one desktop platform to another, newer, desktop platform--the best known of these is VB6 AI Migrator …
Read Storyby John Browne, on Feb 4, 2016, 9:41:55 AM
Ok, 2016 is a leap year which means February has an extra day, right? But did you know that there could be another leap year bug waiting to happen on …
Read Storyby John Browne, on Dec 9, 2015, 6:00:00 AM
Recently a customer wrote us, saying "Hey, if Microsoft says VB6 is still supported and will be for years and years, why should I worry? Why bother to migrate my …
Read Storyby John Browne, on Dec 3, 2015, 10:00:00 AM
The GAPVelocity AI Silverlight Bridge is now released for general availability. This tool, which greatly reduces the effort to transform Windows Silverlight Phone 8.x code to the new Universal Windows …
Read Storyby John Browne, on Nov 10, 2015, 6:24:26 PM
Today I'm excited to tell you about the newest release of AI Migrator (ie AI Migrator 3), with support for the popular AngularJS framework and Bootstrap for styling. When we …
Read Storyby John Browne, on Nov 6, 2015, 11:20:55 AM
I love hearing from our customers but the email waiting for me while I was drinking my first cup of coffee was disturbing. A prospective customer wrote to say their …
Read Storyby John Browne, on Oct 21, 2015, 6:00:00 AM
Please Note: The VBUC has been renamed to VB6 AI Migrator as of August 2025 When I worked in the Visual C++ (now Visual Studio) group at Microsoft, one of …
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