by DeeDee Walsh, on Jun 6, 2026 7:01:46 PM

It isn't a quality score. On a twenty-year-old codebase, the comment-to-code ratio is one of the cheapest risk signals you can read if you know what you're looking at. Every …

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Topics:Application Modernizationlegacy modernization

by DeeDee Walsh, on Jun 2, 2026 9:07:34 PM

Microsoft Build is always a signal event. It's where Satya Nadella and team show you where the platform is going and by implication, what gets left behind. This year's keynote …

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Topics:VB6Microsoft BuildAIAgentic AIMS AccessMicrosoft Foundry

by DeeDee Walsh, on Jun 2, 2026 1:59:59 AM

Microsoft Build 2026 opens this morning in San Francisco. Here's what the agent-first platform shift means if your core business logic still lives in Visual Basic 6. Satya Nadella takes …

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Topics:VB6Microsoft BuildAIAgentic AI

by DeeDee Walsh, on May 28, 2026 9:46:50 AM

Aikido's research on AI-generated code vulnerabilities is one of the most important conversations at Microsoft Build 2026. At Microsoft Build 2026, Aikido is presenting one of the more important security …

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Topics:Microsoft BuildAIAgentic AI

by DeeDee Walsh, on May 25, 2026 3:50:51 PM

If you came here expecting a "Delphi is dead" piece, you can stop reading. Delphi isn't dead. Embarcadero shipped Delphi 13 Florence on September 10, 2025, with a 64-bit Windows …

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Topics:.NETAIDelphi

by DeeDee Walsh, on May 23, 2026 11:02:07 AM

For those of you with technical debt (all of us, amirite?), here's my guidance on what to watch out for at Build 2026, especially if you're thinking about application modernization …

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Topics:Application Modernization.NETMicrosoft BuildAIAgentic AI

by DeeDee Walsh, on May 19, 2026 3:59:36 PM

The debate has raged for decades: who's the father of Visual Basic? My answer: Who cares? The village raised this kid. This week marks the 35th anniversary of Visual Basic …

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Topics:Visual BasicVB6

by DeeDee Walsh, on May 17, 2026 1:00:00 AM

.Preview 4 is where the rubber meets the road for .NET 11. We’ve officially moved past the experimental phase and into the things getting real territory. The underlying machinery of …

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Topics:.NET.NET 11

by Cheyenne Sokkappa, on May 17, 2026 12:00:00 AM

Microsoft SQL Server 2016 reaches end of extended support on July 14, 2026. After that date, security patches, bug fixes, and Microsoft support will stop. This puts your database at …

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Topics:MicrosoftSQLMS AccessVELO

by Cheyenne Sokkappa, on May 15, 2026 12:00:00 AM

This guide walks through what PowerBuilder modernization actually looks like today, what the options are, and how Agentic AI platforms like VELO are making automated conversion a realistic alternative to …

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Topics:PowerBuilderBlazorVELOPowerBuilder modernization

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