Epic Puck

I installed Ubuntu 10.04 LTS on my Compaq F700 this evening.  Everything is working properly.  I am not having any issue with the Broadcom Wireless Driver as has been reported previously.  Mind you this is the 32 bit version of the OS.

Ok Puck, so you may think i’m being picky as hell here, but i have been wanting to mention this to you since the 25 man last week where we had so much trouble on marrowgar and then again on ToGC Anub’arak Sun. night.

So here goes.

When you say to the raid ‘You all are starting to get it’, for example, it sounds to the rest of the raid as if you are just patiently waiting for the 9 or 24 dummies in the raid to catch up with you in skill, knowledge and understanding, but that you always doing everything exactly right.

So here is why I bring it up, even if you ARE always doing everything right, I think the perception that is conveyed is that you and the 9 or 24 other raiders are two different groups.

Instead of saying inclusive things such as ‘We’re starting to get this guys’ , ‘We can do this’ or ‘Lets figure out what we are doing wrong’, by not including yourself and using You or You guys instead of We, it sounds more accusatory and divisive than teamworky and inclusive.

So maybe not a huge deal in the grand scheme of things, but I know lately you’ve mentioned being concerned with how your words are coming across to the raid. And this, to me, always stands out everytime you put us in one group and yourself in another rather than all 10 or 25 being one team.

Semantics. But perception sometimes means more than one thinks.

I hope that this does not ruffle your feathers, as it is not intended to do so. My intention was solely to bring something to your attention that kinda ruffles mine, that you likely were unaware was being interpreted in a negative way.

Do with it what you will, thank you for taking a moment to hear my unsolicited opinon on this matter.

Sometimes, when we lead, we listen to ourselves but we don’t hear us like others do. I am thankful for the people who tell me how I can be a better leader.

as a developer, raid leader and task ridden gnome … I really like Remember the Milk.  It plugs into my Iphone.  The windows app side is not kludgy.

I really like this app!

I have been a leader of one sort or another in the game of World of Warcraft over the last 3 years. I have been a reluctant Guild Master. I have been an Officer. I have been Raid Leader and most recently taken on the responsibility of XO.

As GM, I tried to lead a small group of players and expand the guild into areas of the game that the members were pressing to be in. It was rough. A lot of the decisions were politically charged. A real “I don’t like them so we shouldn’t favor what they want” environment existed when I took over and it was pervasive. The guild became very unwieldy. Details of all that are on another page here. The remains of that guild including a few of the negative folks still play on the same server. I came to realize that more than a few people put a lot of their life into the game and when anything is threatened, like a guild folding, they are extraordinarily hostile. Some have even gone so far as to reach out of game toward myself (see blog bans). Not everyone is going to be kind even in bad times. Prepare for it.

As Officer and Raid Leader, I still led. I never pushed. I listened to the desires of players as well as officers and other voices to help guide the progress of the guild. I helped establish guidelines for progress as well as artificial markers to help players grasp and fulfill their own goals in their need to raid. I built Puck’s Ready Check with the help of Kelai and the guild accepted what is a great guide for them as well as a very visible ladder system. Straight lines. People will follow straight lines. If you detail both; let them decide.

Also as Officer and Raid Leader, I learned to cope. With repeated absenteeism from other officers, I began to take on the role that many had come to expect from me. Members of any guild are interested in seeing the content and being successful. Yes, fun is a moving target. The raid leader of any guild must realize that and address it – often. I would also suggest that any raid leader of any guild should always be prepared to sit out of any raid so that another guild member can take advantage of possible drops as well as see the content. I think it is great to lead by example.

As XO, I am not a different leader. I have been told by my friends that I am not the same man that I was when I was leading Eternal Circle. I think they are thankful for that (smirk). No matter how you lead, you will always have someone that doesn’t like a decision you make. Those people will always exist. They are unavoidable. Be consistent and admit when you are wrong.

A wise man once told me to pick the hill you want to die on. I hope that this helps you as it did me.

pull Skull.

I know a lot of my subscribers are not coders. Nonetheless I would like to put this bit of code out there.

The sorting problem would occur if the grid was sorted normally. That is, you set the single column you wish to sort the grid on and use the following code client side:

var r_grid=igtbl_getGridById('< %=gridName.columnName%>');
r_grid.addSortColumn("gridName_c_0_0", true);
r_grid.sort();


The problem with this call is that the Ultrawebgrid does not retain the sorting order of the column. The Ultrawebgrid control will then flip the sorting order when the above is called client side.

This code is the fix:


var r_grid=igtbl_getGridById('< %=gridName.ClientID%>');
var sortColId = r_grid.Bands[0].getColumnFromKey("columnName").Id // ID of column to sort grid by
r_grid.Bands[0].getColumnFromKey("columnName").SortIndicator = 0; // Make it think it's unsorted
r_grid.sortColumn(sortColId, false);
if (r_grid.Bands[0].getColumnFromKey("columnName").SortIndicator = 0)
{
r_grid.addSortColumn("gridName_c_0_0", true);
r_grid.sort();
}


I hope it helps you like it did me.