by 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 …
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 …
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