by 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 …
Read Storyby DeeDee Walsh, on Jul 12, 2026 12:15:00 AM
The parts of PowerBuilder modernization that don't show up in a line-count. There's a comforting fiction in application migration: that a database-heavy app is mostly its queries, and if you …
Read Storyby DeeDee Walsh, on Jul 6, 2026 6:11:45 PM
Two users open the same customer record at 4:58 on a Friday. Both change the credit limit. In the PowerBuilder application that's run the business for eighteen years, the second …
Read Storyby DeeDee Walsh, on Jul 6, 2026 5:21:52 AM
Preserve Behavior, Not Just Code There's a particular kind of modernization failure that never shows up in a demo. The new application compiles. The screens render. The tests, the ones …
Read Storyby DeeDee Walsh, on Jun 30, 2026 12:00:01 AM
The Adversarial Validator A confidently wrong answer is the most expensive output an AI system can produce. In a chat interface, the cost of a hallucination is capped by human …
Read Storyby DeeDee Walsh, on Jun 24, 2026 2:49:01 PM
Breaking changes, dependency debt, and where the hours go. Here's a preview for teams planning ahead. With .NET 11 shipping in November 2026 and .NET 8 hitting end-of-life the same …
Read Storyby DeeDee Walsh, on Jun 23, 2026 12:15:00 AM
On November 10, 2026, both .NET 8 and .NET 9 reach end of support. The same day. That's roughly five months away, and it's a weird situation. Normally, choosing a …
Read Storyby DeeDee Walsh, on Jun 20, 2026 12:15:00 AM
.NET 11 Preview 5 turns end-of-life and known-CVE status into a build warning. That's an important shift that draws a line between the codebases that participate in modern lifecycle hygiene …
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