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 Nov 29, 2018 6:02:00 AM
Extinction is normal The word "extinction" makes me visualize a couple of dinosaurs, seeing a huge fireball in the sky rushing toward Earth. One says to the other, "Wonder what …
Read Storyby John Browne, on Nov 19, 2018 2:00:33 PM
Recently at a Microsoft event, I heard that there are still over two million desktop application developers--that is, currently writing or maintaining Windows desktop apps, whether written in C++ or …
Read Storyby John Browne, on Oct 23, 2018 7:45:00 AM
Eike Michel had a problem. The Director of Research and Development at Aucotec, in Hannover, Germany, was responsible for a 18 year old VB6 program that was a critical piece …
Read Storyby John Browne, on Sep 24, 2018 8:00:00 AM
Today we're all pretty excited that Syncfusion has announced support for WebMAP, which means if you have Windows Forms apps using their controls you can now easily map them to …
Read Storyby John Browne, on Sep 10, 2018 8:00:00 AM
Today we feature two announcements: one from an established global leader in development tools and the other one is from Microsoft. [grins slyly] Visual Basic Upgrade Companion version 8.1 is …
Read Storyby John Browne, on Jun 21, 2018 1:03:10 PM
In our last blog post, we looked at how to change the styling of individual elements in our migrated Angular application. Just a reminder in case you haven't been following …
Read Storyby John Browne, on Jun 13, 2018 3:27:44 PM
We recently updated our WebMAP architecture posts to reflect the significant improvements that WebMAP5 makes in generated app code (compared to previous versions). If you haven't seen them, this is …
Read Storyby John Browne, on Jun 6, 2018 1:03:04 PM
Before we jump into the last installment, let's briefly review what we leaned in part 1 and part 2. If you're just jumping into this here, you probably want to …
Read Storyby John Browne, on May 9, 2018 5:47:14 PM
Instead of boring old words today I just decided to show you some Build 2018. So check out the completely unedited video. And congrats to our XBox winners. We went …
Read Storyby John Browne, on May 8, 2018 5:39:34 PM
Tuesday May 8 dawned foggy with a promise of clear blue skies later. There was no fogginess in Microsoft's announcement of .NET Core 3, however where they are doing a …
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