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 Sep 14, 2015 6:00:00 AM
Introduction One of the cool announcements Microsoft made around the Windows 10 launch was the Universal Windows Platform (UWP), a single executable that can run on any Windows 10 device, …
Read Storyby John Browne, on May 4, 2015 3:52:35 PM
A couple of weeks ago Google turned off default support for NPAPI (Netscape Plugin API) in Chrome. It's still available, but you have to know how to turn it back …
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 22, 2013 4:32:00 PM
Spent most of this week updating one of our most popular pieces of content, "18 Mobile Application Development Facts to Blow Your Mind." Got it all the way up to …
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