Mattfast1 - the fast one

Welcome to the fast one

What is this? This site is the home of mattfast1 - the fast one. If you know me, you'll understand. Or maybe you won't. And if you don't know me? Then you will be confused and irritated. Heck, you may even become confused and irritated if you know me. So you should just stop trying to understand. It won't get any easier.

250th Commit [ 2 May 2008 ]

Well, just a day after I have implemented my newest security measures, this website is celebrating the 250th commit to the SVN repository since the site was imported (which occured 2006-01-16 17:43:03 -0700 (Mon, 16 Jan 2006) according to the SVN log). Now, I know that seems like quite some time just to hit 250 commits, especially considering some projects using SVN have tens of thousands of commits. However, please keep in mind that I'm only one man, and I do have a life, so it does take time.

Those who are paying attention might remember that I made the 200th revision on 2007-05-11 11:46:15 -0600 (Fri, 11 May 2007), almost a year ago. Again, PLEASE remember I'm the only developer. It takes time. That also means occasionally I leave it alone for a while, then pick it up later.

New Security Measures [ 1 May 2008 ]

I have implemented some new security measures on my group of websites, especially the portions that someone may be able to break (in other words, run something other than straight HTML). These new security measures are designed to keep out troublemaking countries that have recently been sending hundreds upon hundreds of bad requests to my websites. Of course these efforts have been thwarted thus far by Apache and PHP, but just to be safe, computers in the following countries will be disallowed from accessing anything on mattfast1.com or mattvandusen.com, and are also blocked from several sections of vandusens.us.

China

Korea

Vietnam

Of course, I will be monitoring the logs. If need be, I can ban other clients based on a variety of factors, such as country, IP block, individual IP address, and user-agent. So far this is all I'm blocking, with exceptions of some text-based entries for domains that have been blocked for ages, and hopefully have given up. Doesn't mean their entries will be removed from the filter, either.

On a side note, it's been brought to my attention that all *.co.kr domains have been blocked for some time. Of course now the ban of the Koreans is complete, since they are now blocked by alternate methods. You can see my blog entry for more details.

New Project [ 20 April 2008 ]

My new project for this site is a little reorganization. I'm going to separate some things a bit. The bulk of what's hosted at mattfast1.com, including the blog and this particular site, will be moving to the mattvandusen.com domain.

What does that mean for you? Probably not much, since I will be creating redirects and so forth so everything can be found. However, if you have any links or bookmarks to this website, please be prepared to change them. I will try to post here when I have a timeframe for moving everything. It'll take a while before I'm ready, since I have to ensure all the links won't break.

The blog should be easy to move, I may even do that today. All I need to do is configure Wordpress to the new domain, move the files, change my automatic updates to Wordpress, setup the new domain, and turn the old one into a redirect domain. This site may be a little more difficult, since it's been hard-coded to the mattfast1.com domain for YEARS. I've been trying to fix that for some time (that's part of the reason I changed the site to PHP), but it's still daunting - I have some pages I haven't even LOOKED at in 2 years, let alone converted to PHP.

DOFUS Patch Archive [ 29 June 2007 ]

I am putting together an archive of the past DOFUS patches, so that hopefully some poor soul doesn't have to re-download the entire full version just because they're missing one patch in the series. Like I am right now.

If you have patches to contribute, let me know. I have all the patches back to 1.17.0 to 1.17.1. I am missing 1.16.X to 1.17.0, but I have 1.16.X to 1.16.4. If you have any others, please let me know. I cannot receive them via email, but I could possibly provide you with an FTP dump.

200th Revision [11 May 2007 ]

That's right, we have finally commited our 200th revision since we started using the Subversion revision control system.

See you in another 200 revisions.

We're Green! [ 26 Apr 2007 ]

DreamHost, the company I have been hosting this site with since June 10, 2005, announced recently that they have taken steps to become a carbon-neutral company. What does that mean? Well, if you read their pages on the subject, it explains quite a bit about what that ACTUALLY means. If you're too lazy to read those pages, you can just be content that our hosting is taking steps to reduce their footprint on this planet.

 

Wow... The Updates, they continue [ 9 Aug 2006 ]

It has been a long time since I updated mattfast1. I do realize this. However, thanks to work, school, women, etc., I have been unable to do anything about it.

I have also been working to move the site to a php driven site, which would explain where most of my time working on this site has been going. Believe me, I would much like to update it. Son, it'll have PHP and new features galore! Yippie!

Foamy! [ 7 Mar 2006 ]

mattfast1 - the fast one is proud to present the newest in the series of Sho's Damaged animations. This one, version 2, features a different storyline with different music, but it's clearly a continuation. Watch the first one, then head on over to the second.

In other news, Foamy the Squirrel is coming soon to mattfast1 - the fast one. You know Foamy best from Neurotically Yours, the centerpiece of IllWillPress.com. Well, this same squirrel is soon to be featured on mattfast1 - we're just working on generating the HTML code that will display Foamy to you, and hope to have all the animations up and running by the next release later this week.

The naming convention to get to many of my pages is changing, too. To head over to my deviantART page, please hit da.mattfast1.com or deviantart.mattfast1.com. If you're more of a myspace person, head to myspace.mattfast1.com. That's all I've got set up for now, but definately look for some of my places around the web to be coming to subdomains near you today!

But wait - there's more! Today, we have added the Mantis Bugtrackerto our site, which will help us manage problems reported by our users better, not to mention manage feedback. Everything gets where it needs to go quickly, and we can start showing bug numbers (EX: 0000001) in our version control logs, so all users can delve into the issue to their satisfaction and know that their comments were recieved, categorized, and fixed. The bugtracker also allows users to sponsor a particular issue. The more money recieved upon the fixing of something, more likely it's going to happen. You can donate any amount, as long as it's over $5.

To get started with Mantis Bugtracker, visit the signup page and create an account. Note that you MUST use a valid email account - otherwise you won't get your password. Emails entered here will never be spammed - their uses are all automated by the program (in which users can set notification levels); also, these email addresses are what I use to demand money in response to any sponsored issues being fixed. There is an anonymous login option; however, you will not be able to enter reports using that account.

Note: Due to non-use, I have removed that domain. All links to that particular domain are ceasing to be.

Crap [ 2 Mar 2006 ]

We're not doing much, thanks to being sick for a while. More information is available in the release notes.

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