by DeeDee Walsh, on Aug 22, 2026, 6:58:02 PM
How many of us wish we could start with a totally clean slate? In our heart of hearts we all wish we could rewrite from scratch all the bad code …
Read Storyby DeeDee Walsh, on Aug 19, 2026, 6:50:24 PM
On July 14, the Polly project announced it was adopting the Open Source Maintenance Fee (OSMF). Polly is the core resilience library that handles retries, circuit breakers, hedging, timeouts, and …
Read Storyby Oscar Poveda, on Aug 15, 2026, 10:23:32 AM
Every engineering team modernizing a legacy application has already run the experiment. Someone pastes a VB6 module, a PowerBuilder datawindow, or a .clw file from Clarion into a chat window …
Read Storyby Cheyenne Sokkappa, on Aug 9, 2026, 12:00:00 AM
Most conversations about PowerBuilder modernization start with age. The platform is old, the vendor support is thinning, the developer pool is shrinking. All true, and all beside the point. Age …
Read Storyby DeeDee Walsh, on Aug 4, 2026, 7:06:29 PM
The July 2026 Visual Studio update added something super cool: built-in skills, authored by the .NET and Azure teams, that appear in the Copilot tool picker whenever the matching workload …
Read Storyby Rodrigo Rodriguez, on Aug 1, 2026, 10:01:06 AM
When building autonomous modernization agents capable of re-architecting enterprise applications, parsing massive codebases, and translating legacy patterns into modern frameworks, execution time isn't measured in seconds—it's measured in hours. While …
Read Storyby DeeDee Walsh, on Jul 28, 2026, 7:12:37 PM
You’re modernizing. Step one: choose a target platform and prepare to defend it until 2036. When a CTO axes a 400,000-line VB6 monster or a Clinton-era PowerBuilder setup, no one …
Read Storyby DeeDee Walsh, on Jul 25, 2026, 8:49:13 PM
Here's What Changed In 2002, a tool I helped bring to market started rewriting other people's code. The VB6 Upgrade Wizard shipped inside Visual Studio .NET, built on technology from …
Read Storyby DeeDee Walsh, on Jul 19, 2026, 7:31:52 PM
In case you missed it , here's what we built live, and how you can build it too. On July 17 we went live on Jeff Fritz's channel for a …
Read Storyby Cheyenne Sokkappa, on Jul 16, 2026, 11:59:59 PM
PowerBuilder has powered mission-critical business applications for more than three decades. Many of those applications still run core operations today, and the organizations that depend on them face a familiar …
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