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 Feb 17, 2016 4:00:00 AM
When you assign version numbers to software, you usually need a pretty good reason to change the first digit. Well today's one of those days. VBUC 7.0, available now here, …
Read Storyby John Browne, on Feb 4, 2016 9:41:55 AM
Ok, 2016 is a leap year which means February has an extra day, right? But did you know that there could be another leap year bug waiting to happen on …
Read Storyby John Browne, on Jan 22, 2016 11:31:07 AM
Mobilize.Net is growing by leaps and bounds. We are planning to hire 100 additional people during 2016, including software engineers, testers, project managers and administrative job positions for our San …
Read Storyby John Browne, on Dec 21, 2015 3:49:15 PM
Today's word of the day is brought to you by the letter "W". And that word is "webification." No, don't bother calling up dictionary.com for this one, we just made …
Read Storyby John Browne, on Dec 9, 2015 6:00:00 AM
Recently a customer wrote us, saying "Hey, if Microsoft says VB6 is still supported and will be for years and years, why should I worry? Why bother to migrate my …
Read Storyby John Browne, on Dec 3, 2015 10:00:00 AM
The Mobilize.Net Silverlight Bridge is now released for general availability. This tool, which greatly reduces the effort to transform Windows Silverlight Phone 8.x code to the new Universal Windows Platform …
Read Storyby John Browne, on Nov 10, 2015 6:24:26 PM
Today I'm excited to tell you about the newest release of WebMAP (ie WebMAP3), with support for the popular AngularJS framework and Bootstrap for styling. When we first built WebMAP …
Read Storyby John Browne, on Nov 6, 2015 11:20:55 AM
I love hearing from our customers but the email waiting for me while I was drinking my first cup of coffee was disturbing. A prospective customer wrote to say their …
Read Storyby John Browne, on Oct 21, 2015 6:00:00 AM
When I worked in the Visual C++ (now Visual Studio) group at Microsoft, one of the breakthroughs came when our fearless leader, Denis Gilbert, insisted we "eat our own dogfood" …
Read Storyby John Browne, on Oct 20, 2015 10:31:44 AM
The PowerBuilder to Java/HTML5 Migration is the leading way for migrating legacy PowerBuilder code to the Java framework and the most modern HTML5 portable UI. Our automated migration technology has …
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