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 Dec 5, 2023 5:00:00 AM
Is this your 2023 state of the art? It's no mystery why 3GL and 4GL tools took off in the 1990s. Personal computers (PCs) had made huge inroads into the …
Read Storyby John Browne, on Nov 20, 2023 10:18:21 AM
The unveiling of .NET 8 last week at .NET Conf showed not just the expected new features but also a clear view of Microsoft's view of .NET as an all-encompassing …
Read Storyby John Browne, on Nov 14, 2023 3:00:00 AM
It's been almost 3 years to the day since the release of VBUC version 9.0, the last BIG update (not to hurt the feelings of all the intermediate ones since) …
Read Storyby John Browne, on Oct 30, 2023 2:56:24 PM
Since today is Halloween, I thought depicting legacy applications as sort of the living dead was on-brand. I mean, they work, right? Just maybe not great. At least they don't …
Read Storyby John Browne, on Oct 13, 2023 9:29:04 AM
I've written a ton of content about why you should modernize legacy apps. Now I want to talk a bit about how. Back in February of this year (2023), we …
Read Storyby John Browne, on Aug 21, 2023 3:43:15 PM
As in Syntactically Awesome Style Sheets, which we now have in WebMAP. I haven't written much any HTML recently, so I have to blushingly admit I never heard of either …
Read Storyby John Browne, on Jul 18, 2023 5:00:31 PM
As far as I can tell, there are only two things that are easy to do in the cloud: paying too much and getting it wrong. That's where reference architecture …
Read Storyby John Browne, on Jun 12, 2023 12:13:55 PM
Matt Watson, AKA The Visionary CTO, has a thought-provoking post recently: "My 20 Year Career is Technical Debt or Deprecated." It's a good read and I recommend it highly. Short …
Read Storyby John Browne, on May 2, 2023 1:30:17 PM
Many years ago I was an auto mechanic. This was in the days before digital motor electronics, electronic fuel injection, or other high tech add-ons that we take for granted …
Read Storyby John Browne, on Apr 25, 2023 4:18:54 PM
Generative AI--let's just call it ChatGPT for now--has arrived with the same level of enthusiasm as the good citizens of River City when Harold Hill showed up in town to …
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