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.
Recent Posts by John Browne:
by 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 …
Read Storyby John Browne, on Nov 16, 2016 10:30:00 AM
With the announcement today of Visual Studio 2017 we are also announcing that we've upgraded and verified that our products support this cool new developer IDE. There's some new cool …
Read Storyby John Browne, on Nov 8, 2016 4:17:16 PM
This is a story of three friends who built houses. Sooner or later this will get around to something to do with code. One of the friends (let's call him …
Read Storyby John Browne, on Oct 11, 2016 6:05:40 PM
Recently we announced the availability of a migration tool to move PowerBuilder apps to Java-based web apps. In a nutshell we migrate all the PB forms to HTML with Angular …
Read Storyby 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 …
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