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 23, 2017 5:06:29 PM
Today I watched a demo of an app we are finishing up--this belongs to an ISV who serves a vertical market and like a lot of those kinds of apps …
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 …
Read Storyby John Browne, on Jan 4, 2017 3:13:29 PM
Assuming you didn't just arrive from another planet you've heard (plenty) about the hack of the Democratic National Committee's email. The aftershocks continue to reverberate through the American political spectrum …
Read Storyby John Browne, on Dec 21, 2016 2:32:51 PM
About a million years ago, when dinosaurs walked the Earth, I used to have to troubleshoot a PDP-11 with a multimeter at the backplane. PDPs are gone and nobody anymore …
Read Storyby John Browne, on Nov 30, 2016 10:00:00 AM
Mobilize.Net Application Modernization Starter Kit When I was a kid I had a pet turtle. I loved that turtle. One day I noticed it wasn't eating well. I watched it …
Read Storyby John Browne, on Nov 8, 2016 4:17:16 PM
This is a story of three friends who built houses. Sooner or later this will get around to something to do with code. One of the friends (let's call him …
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