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 17, 2017 9:00:00 AM
Friday May 12 saw the worst cyber attack in years, as a worm (WannaCry, Wanna, or Wcry) spread through computer networks encrypting files and demanding a ransom of anywhere from …
Read Storyby John Browne, on Apr 19, 2017 7:30:00 AM
Migrating off VB6 has never been more important. Every passing day VB6 gets riskier and more problematic to keep around. Millions of lines of Visual Basic 6.0 code still run …
Read Storyby John Browne, on Apr 1, 2017 6:00:00 AM
Our skunkworks team has been working overtime on a new product that I think is a real game changer. Before I tell you about it, let me set the stage …
Read Storyby John Browne, on Mar 21, 2017 6:00:00 AM
In our continuing struggle to make the world safe from nasty old legacy code, we are happy today to announce the availability of VBUC version 7.2, designed to help you …
Read Storyby John Browne, on Mar 3, 2017 2:33:35 PM
TL/DR: It's not an infinity symbol. The logo for Visual Studio looks a lot like the symbol for infinity--which might make you wonder if that's the expected compile time for …
Read Storyby John Browne, on Mar 2, 2017 5:25:28 PM
As part of what will be a brief but on-going series celebrating Visual Studio's 20th anniversary, I bring you a short video: Who did Ballmer hate more? Ok, some explanation …
Read Storyby John Browne, on Feb 16, 2017 2:32:42 PM
Can you believe it? 20 years ago it was Visual Studio 1.0 and this year it will be Visual Studio 2017. Microsoft is launching the next version of the world's …
Read Storyby John Browne, on Feb 13, 2017 4:15:15 PM
From the news desk: Back to the future: The VB.NET team blogs about the future of VB.NET. Whether this is just badly written or deliberately ambiguous I can't say but …
Read Storyby John Browne, on Feb 8, 2017 3:13:52 PM
The little sailboat pounded through the Caribbean chop, motoring northeast against the trade winds to Antigua. My wife and two young children, all prone to seasickness, lay like so many …
Read Storyby John Browne, on Feb 1, 2017 3:05:22 PM
Today for your listening and dining pleasure, we want to shed a little light on the risks and rewards of code transformation as a path to legacy application modernization. As …
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