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 Oct 25, 2016 1:46:17 PM
It's been almost a year since we announced our last major release of WebMAP and today we're doing it again. WebMAP version 4.0 represents a tremendous effort by our development …
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 Sep 21, 2016 8:00:00 AM
In our on-going efforts to rid the world of VB6 we have now released version 7.1 of the Visual Basic Upgrade Companion, which includes some notable improvements. If you want …
Read Storyby John Browne, on Sep 16, 2016 4:26:54 PM
Scott Hanselman wrote that he used the Desktop App Converter to put a VB6 app in the Windows Store. You can read all about it here. This stirred up a …
Read Storyby John Browne, on Aug 26, 2016 8:05:04 AM
In past blogs we've talked about when automated migration of legacy apps makes sense compared to a full rewrite--usually when you have significant business logic in the code which you …
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 Mobilize have focused on tools to transform app source code from one desktop platform to another, newer, desktop platform--the best known of these is VBUC which moves …
Read Storyby John Browne, on Mar 2, 2016 4:52:07 PM
The last big company I worked at (Microsoft) had a LOT of desktops (as you can well imagine). And of course they also had a lot of internal apps that …
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