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 May 7, 2018 5:17:53 PM
Build is Microsoft's annual homage to dorkiness and it's here in full glory. The de rigueur attire is a teeshirt with some kind of nerdy slogan or product (acceptable alternatives …
Read Storyby John Browne, on May 6, 2018 8:00:00 PM
When I first joined Mobilize.Net--actually before I joined Mobilize.Net, since I was interviewing for the job--and I heard the business model was tools to do code conversion, I. Was. Skeptical …
Read Storyby John Browne, on Mar 1, 2018 6:00:00 AM
Not every legacy app has a database connection but I've yet to see one of any size or value that didn't. That said, we here at Mobilize have largely left …
Read Storyby John Browne, on Feb 22, 2018 6:00:00 AM
Here's a cool idea: take your old desktop ERP system and migrate it to the web. Then... Add a barcode scanner widget, run the client on a tablet, and use …
Read Storyby John Browne, on Feb 16, 2018 4:40:54 PM
4GLs were quite the thing in the 80s and 90s. Everybody either had one, sold one, or was talking about getting one. For a while, it seemed like actually writing …
Read Storyby John Browne, on Feb 7, 2018 9:25:03 AM
It doesn't take a lot of looking to find companies who claim to modernize your legacy applications by moving them to the cloud. The question is: Does this actually modernize …
Read Storyby John Browne, on Feb 1, 2018 1:59:17 PM
Well, April showers may bring May flowers but this May you also get two new EU regulations that might wet your spirits: GDPR and new cybersecurity standards. Note: I'm not …
Read Storyby John Browne, on Dec 25, 2017 6:00:00 AM
(With apologies to the Muppets--I mean Charles Dickens). Sunday, Dec 24, 2017 Ebeneezer Scrooge contemplated first the array of HD monitors arranged on his desk, then the view of Seattle …
Read Storyby John Browne, on Dec 20, 2017 11:51:41 AM
We have a calculator. I made it. The purpose of the calculator is to help you estimate the cost of rewriting that legacy application from scratch compared to the cost …
Read Storyby John Browne, on Dec 8, 2017 11:33:36 AM
If you've been following this blog then you know I'm excited about the benefits of DevOps, which I think can be a huge game changer for software development. If you …
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