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 Jun 20, 2017 1:55:46 PM
Without a doubt, one of the more interesting and powerful features of VB6 was its integration with Microsoft Office. That integration opened up a vast set of capabilities for working …
Read Storyby John Browne, on Jun 14, 2017 5:21:16 PM
ICYMI, we've compiled a list of the most popular and useful blog posts of all time. There's lots of practical (and technical) advice on recycling your old code. Read on …
Read Storyby John Browne, on Jun 8, 2017 3:23:06 PM
VB6: will it ever go away? Maybe not--the current (June 2017) TIOBE index shows Visual Basic (not VB.NET) at #16 (down from 11th a year ago). Maybe that sounds irrelevant, …
Read Storyby John Browne, on May 17, 2017 9:00:00 AM
Friday May 12 saw the worst cyber attack in years, as a worm (WannaCry, Wanna, or Wcry) spread through computer networks encrypting files and demanding a ransom of anywhere from …
Read Storyby John Browne, on Apr 19, 2017 7:30:00 AM
Migrating off VB6 has never been more important. Every passing day VB6 gets riskier and more problematic to keep around. Millions of lines of Visual Basic 6.0 code still run …
Read Storyby John Browne, on Apr 1, 2017 6:00:00 AM
Our skunkworks team has been working overtime on a new product that I think is a real game changer. Before I tell you about it, let me set the stage …
Read Storyby John Browne, on Mar 23, 2017 5:06:29 PM
Today I watched a demo of an app we are finishing up--this belongs to an ISV who serves a vertical market and like a lot of those kinds of apps …
Read Storyby John Browne, on Mar 21, 2017 6:00:00 AM
In our continuing struggle to make the world safe from nasty old legacy code, we are happy today to announce the availability of VBUC version 7.2, designed to help you …
Read Storyby John Browne, on Mar 6, 2017 4:22:16 PM
In keeping with this week's/month's/year's theme of "20 years of Visual Studio" here's another short video from our recent confab of Visual Studio creators. Tomorrow--March 7--we will have a full-court …
Read Storyby John Browne, on Mar 3, 2017 2:33:35 PM
TL/DR: It's not an infinity symbol. The logo for Visual Studio looks a lot like the symbol for infinity--which might make you wonder if that's the expected compile time for …
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