by 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 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 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 DeeDee Walsh, on Oct 24, 2017 3:44:15 PM
Remember the good old days of 2016? Apple got a new headphone jack, Samsung's phones kept exploding, hackers hacked everything.... and Microsoft hosted 3 days of awesome, technical content at …
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 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 Jun 14, 2017 5:21:16 PM
ICYMI, we've compiled a list of the most popular and useful blog posts of all time. There's lots of practical (and technical) advice on recycling your old code. Read on …
Read Storyby John Browne, on Jun 8, 2017 3:23:06 PM
VB6: will it ever go away? Maybe not--the current (June 2017) TIOBE index shows Visual Basic (not VB.NET) at #16 (down from 11th a year ago). Maybe that sounds irrelevant, …
Read Storyby 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 …
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