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 Dec 5, 2017 10:30:54 AM
DevOps is a pretty hot topic today, and if you feel like maybe everyone but you is doing it and you're not even sure what "it" is, this is your …
Read Storyby John Browne, on Nov 16, 2017 7:46:10 AM
Ok, Day 1 of Connect(); 2017 is in the bag and by now as I write this the attendees are all probably trying to elbow their way to the front …
Read Storyby John Browne, on Nov 15, 2017 6:00:00 AM
We just keep makin' it better. Today we're deeply pleased to announce the general availability of version 8.0 of the Visual Basic Upgrade Companion, the world's most-used legacy migration tool …
Read Storyby John Browne, on Nov 7, 2017 11:12:00 PM
A couple of weeks ago at the Microsoft Visual Studio Partners annual shindig and crabfeed (actually there was no crab), it was nice to run into Marissa Keller Outten from …
Read Storyby John Browne, on Oct 16, 2017 2:31:32 PM
(Most of the following is true. Some details have been changed to protect the guilty.) I met up with my buddy Don recently for beers and to enjoy the last …
Read Storyby John Browne, on Sep 15, 2017 2:59:52 PM
Let's return briefly to 2002--a year both celebrated for its numerologic significance to middle-aged BMW owners and darkened by its Billboard #1 hit. Largely outlasting the former and certainly more …
Read Storyby John Browne, on Sep 13, 2017 4:35:04 PM
Assuming you didn't just arrive from Mars, you will have heard about the recent data breach at credit-monitoring company Equifax that affects 143,000,000 people, mostly Americans, which by my back-of-the-envelope …
Read Storyby John Browne, on Aug 30, 2017 5:03:19 PM
We have a new video up today addressing the question of how state is handled in WebMAP apps. This concept is multi-layered and so the video is merely an introduction …
Read Storyby John Browne, on Aug 22, 2017 11:05:24 AM
Being an introduction into how WebMAP implements ASP.NET MVC in generated code. WebMAP takes a C# desktop app and converts it to a web app. The fundamental internal architecture is …
Read Storyby John Browne, on Jul 25, 2017 1:43:32 PM
IN THE BEGINNING THERE WAS THE WEB. Actually in the beginning was DOS, then Windows, then Visual Basic, then .NET. But we'll get back to them later. Consider: The Advanced …
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