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I've won another series and am now at Bronze II on the season, but not even Colz can stop me from getting wrecked by bad teams it seems, I'm 2-4 since placing into Bronze II. My mechanics are really bad, and I'm starting to wonder if I should be playing more than once a week to improve at my mechanics, but then I remember that it's Ron's Bronze Plays, and the plays won't be bronze if Ron gets good.

Descent Champions Ladder

I've won 3 more games against silver pilots recently, and that has rewarded me with becoming a silver pilot myself. I was never all that great at competitive Descent 1, and playing the masters of today really makes me feel that I have more to learn than just piloting. Granted, some of these pilots have spectacular aim as well, which is why I'm planning on switching over to mouse once my mouse patch gets into DXX Retro and becomes generally available. I'm almost to where I am today in skill with it, but need a lot more practice. I'm going to a Descent LAN in July, and I'm hoping that is when I'll be able to make the switch over to mouse.

roncli.com

I actually have good news about the website!

That's right, I'm almost DONE! There are only 4 bugs left. The font loading issue hasn't happened lately and I might be able to get rid of it. The login from cookie is a really strange bug that I can't reproduce, but is something I need to figure out and fix before launch. The allowed playlists deal was just a bad design decision I made earlier that I need to fix. And the fix image widths bug is where I have really big images that aren't being scaled down, which is causing the layout to break.

After that, it's all about content. The blog is easy enough, but adding the songs to Soundcloud will take time, and I need to write the pages for all of the rest of the content I intend to have. That alone might take days, but at least the major coding milestones have all been hit. I'm nearly 2 months behind my original target, but I think it'll be worth the wait!

Labels: Asana, Coding, DCL, Descent, Gaming, League of Legends, Ron's Bronze Plays, roncli.com, SoundCloud

Thursday, February 23, 2012

Step One: Check!
Posted: 1:08:00 PM 0 comments

So I finally am getting around to the redesign of the redesign of roncli.com. This time, I'm doing it much more organized, as you can see here:

There are over 150 tasks on that list, each corresponding to a small bit of GUI the site will be using. Right now, there's not a whole lot to write about, but the first steps have been taken.

In terms of the GUI, not a whole lot will be different. Most of the changes are being made with the framework, as I'm now using Backbone for a more client-side, AJAXy MVC.

The order of my design is going to be different, too. I want to nail the layout, and possibly include several layout sizes to accomodate mobile and such. Then I'll take care of the admin section, so that I get the content of the database prepared to be displayed once I start working on the other pages.

All in all, it's a pretty good start for an exciting, new direction to an old project.

Other related facts: Monday will mark 12 years of roncli.com, and last Sunday was 7 years at this blog.

Labels: Asana, Coding, roncli.com