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.
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by John Browne, on Sep 30, 2015 12:16:23 PM
If you’re used to developing for Windows (or MacOS or Linux or really any desktop OS) and you are contemplating a Web version of your application, there are a variety …
Read Storyby John Browne, on Apr 30, 2015 4:22:00 PM
If you ever wondered what it's like to be in the midst of 5000 Windows developers, you should come to //Build/ some time. I'm fortunate enough that I'm here this …
Read Storyby John Browne, on Apr 2, 2015 2:55:06 PM
Note: the following is courtesy of Hugo Fernandez, who is responsible for much of the recent improvements in the VBUC. I asked Hugo for some specific improvements made to the …
Read Storyby John Browne, on Mar 23, 2015 5:58:00 PM
The same things that made VB6 such a wildly popular development environment make it tough to modernize to a more strongly-typed language like C#. Plus (let's be honest now) a …
Read Storyby John Browne, on Feb 3, 2015 8:53:00 AM
Ok, it's all very fine and dandy to talk about the case for automated migration from .NET to HTML5 as a way to reuse proven code, but what are the …
Read Storyby John Browne, on Jan 29, 2015 4:54:00 PM
Let's say you've got a line of business (LOB) application that just chugs along, doing its line of business thing, day after day, week after week, year after year. Every …
Read Storyby John Browne, on Mar 3, 2014 1:00:00 AM
Great news for SharePoint customers. Today we’re excited to announce a new assessment tool to help you understand what aspects of your SharePoint and VBA implementations need remediation to move …
Read Storyby John Browne, on Nov 13, 2013 1:00:00 AM
We're excited today to announce the availability of Visual Basic Upgrade Companion 2013, which we're shipping simultaneously with Visual Studio 2013. What's new? The most obvious change is that we …
Read Storyby John Browne, on Oct 31, 2013 4:14:00 PM
I've always been a sucker for the majesty and sheer incomprehensibility of the King James Bible, which of course we were read to as children as though we might actually …
Read Storyby John Browne, on Oct 29, 2013 2:00:00 PM
If in your natural state of eternal optimism you think the Bad Guys have started to slack off, think again. Microsoft's recently released Security Intelligence Report, Volume 15, which you …
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