This is Jim Leonardo's web site. This is mostly a portal for links to where you can find me elsewhere on the web.

My Most Recent Blog Entries on Blogspot

Stop SOPA!!!

Needless to say, sign me up with those who want to stop the SOPA and PIPA bills. Both bills are heavy fisted attempts by Big Content to protect their intellectual property without any concern for the ramifications. Even if you strongly believe piracy

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Migrating a bootable VHD to Fusion in Mac

I just got a new Macbook Pro for work use and wanted to move a windows image which I used for client work. The image was a bootable VHD file (like this) and that presented a couple of issues for a simple move.First, the bootable VHD is not the same

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A dice tool for 7th Sea.

I've put the first version of dice roller for 7th Sea up on my gaming related site, smellyoldgamer.com. As of right now, smellyoldgamer is still just an alias for jimleo.com, so you can just use jimleo.com as the root too. The full address to the dic

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A Few Very Useful Tools–Mar 2011

Wow, I missed a YEAR’s worth of A Few Very Useful Tools. You are now entitled to your subscription fee back. Given I pay most of you to read this, you owe me money.[Warning, philosophy ahead]Seriously though, a year ago I was running out of things to

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DateTime is Dead, Long Live DateTimeOffset!

Ok, maybe I’m late to the presses with this one, but given that no one I’ve talked to recently knows about this, I think it’s worthy of more press…The .Net DateTime structure is a nice handy structure that we basically can’t escape. Funny thing about

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Rescuing yourself...

Lately I've been blogging about the dimensions software project failure and what kinds of personalities you see in projects that have failed or are about to fail. Now, I'm the kind of person that says you need to find the negative to fix the negative

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Faces of Failure

My last post discussed what I called "Dimensions of Failure". At the end of that post, I promised I'd look into some causes of failure this time. Unlike the last post which drew heavily on knowledge I'd accumulated from other authors in addition to s

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Dimensions of Failure

I made a slight reference to dimensions of failure in my last post. What I said there was failure to deliver was not the only dimension of failure. I would like to expand on this a bit more because I think it is extremely important from my perspectiv

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Kai Gilb... Agile is dead?

So there's this fellow out there named Kai Gilb who is writing a series of articles about how bad Agile is. To increase the visibility of his arguments, and because his site requires log in, I'm commenting back here. I also don't want to lose the old

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Life updates

Wow, I've been quiet for a while, now three posts in one day! I'm far, far more active on Facebook and have been starting to get into Twitter a very little lately as well.Looking through my past posts, I see a little 'about me' post that begs for ano

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Dishonorable Mentions

I think I've settled on a nice theme with the "A Few Very Useful Tools" series. It helps me think about what I'm using, what I should be looking for, and so on. However, there's another side of the coin, and I think that I would be remiss to neglect

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A Few Very Useful Tools - Feb 2010

Ok, ok, I missed the January Useful Tools. So sue me...The last couple of months have seen me get a new iMac and create a new desk at home so I don't end up with stuff on top of stuff when working from home with the work laptop on the, umm, desk top

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A Few Very Useful Tools part 2

There's a few tools that of late I've realized I am really beginning to consider part and parcel of my life. My last post had a few key tools, here's a few more...Paint.Net(getpaint.net) - This is firmly in my "are you kidding me?!?!" in a good way c

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A Few Very Useful Tools

del.icio.us Tags: Windows Development,Utilities In my toolbox of nifty utilities that I use for my job, there’s a few that I think I couldn’t live without. Sysinternals Suite- Now owned by Microsoft, this toolset developed by Mark Russinovich is

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Being rewarded for buying locally

Talk about a relief.It's been one of those weeks. I get back from vacation and try to get back to work, but find I've got some issues. I can't get data in our app synced with our server (we're using a new sync approach which is complete with NDAs so

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Doing management, again.

Well, after a valiant/vain attempt to avoid getting hauled into it, I'm in the team leadership business again. This time, I'm officially a Scrum Master of one of the 9 or 10 development teams for my current project (number varies with whether you con

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How I plan to save the economy.

After listening to our president present his "plan" (borrow, spend, tax, spend blah blah), I got to thinking and now I can confidently say:I have a plan. A REAL plan.Follow me on this one, and share it with your friends because it will only work if e

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jimleo.com is back up... some how-to.

Well kiddies, it's true. After WAY TOO LONG(in dog years no less!), I've finally updated my "main" website, jimleo.com.Now that I'm using Blogger and delicious for blogging and links respectively, jimleo.com has a new mission in life. That mission is

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The KIPOS principle.

Working in software development for too long now, I've had the "joy" of working under a few dominant project management philosophies. These include (if you're interested in this, I probably don't need the definitions, but here it goes anyway):"ad-hoc

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Third time's a charm. Right?

Hi all.I tried Subtext.I tried Word Press.All hosted on http://www.jimleo.com.The reality is that I never had enough traffic to keep my interest, so now a Blogger blog. I'm also hoping that Blogger does a much better job of filtering the comment spam

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My Most Recent Links on del.icio.us

» Stop making cows. Quit being calves. ProjectVRM

Interesting blog post. Read it.

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war gaming accesories.

http://www.stopthewall.us/artists/

Artists against SOPA, it's not just Big Tech

End Piracy, Not Liberty – Google

SOPA and PIPA - Learn more - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

STOP SOPA!

WSF PHP | WSO2

Xcode 3.0 Tutorials Table View

Other than the bit about "Writing Class", still relevant to 4.2. One of the few COMPLETE tutorials on using table view. The rest I've seen seem to do too much hand waving.