everlasting gobstopper of goodness

tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-88479042011-04-22T00:02:23.285-05:00everlasting gobstopper of goodnessslugworthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08245379809953715351noreply@blogger.comBlogger261100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8847904.post-1108752037851995582005-02-18T11:16:00.000-06:002005-02-18T12:40:37.856-06:00Bunches of new stuff

There's a pant-load of new stuff on Far Cry Community Maps. I added a phpBB forum and a coppermine image gallery. Pretty easy to do with fantastico out of cpanel. We're up to 150 files for download with over 90,000 files downloaded to date. That's an average of 750 downloads per day since I first started the site. Bandwidth for the site is right around 20 GBytes of transfer per day. Pretty

slugworthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08245379809953715351noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8847904.post-1106201154942153472005-01-19T23:47:00.000-06:002005-01-20T00:05:54.943-06:00New design for main page

A few weeks ago NowWhat sent me an email offering to help make some changes to the design of the map display information for the main page of the web site. We set it up and he got busy. Working with uBm from www.kapsreiter.org, he figured out how to get map play time to display on www.farcry-maps.com. But that's not all, he also redesigned the display of the maps for download, categorizing

slugworthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08245379809953715351noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8847904.post-1105552490402146382005-01-12T11:49:00.000-06:002005-01-12T11:54:50.403-06:00nifty little web page

Found some neat ideas on WebMonkey and put a couple to use. The result is a capability to have an indication of the users currently on the web site. Now the front page gives a count of current users in the site stats section. I also coded a short php page to show more infomration about the current users - IP address, host name, and pages/files they are using. Example is here. Geez, this kind of

slugworthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08245379809953715351noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8847904.post-1105169073597525632005-01-08T01:22:00.000-06:002005-01-08T01:24:33.596-06:00I should be sleeping

Been a long week, lots of hours getting the new Far Cry community map pack ready and out the door. Plus had some big time real world work stuff to address this week. But it's all good, map pack is out, lots of downloads, mostly positive feedback, and some good gaming going on.

slugworthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08245379809953715351noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8847904.post-1104305573094106652004-12-29T01:29:00.000-06:002004-12-29T01:32:53.093-06:00Moving day

Moved farcry-maps.com to a new web hosting provider today. In the end it was pretty simple once I got all the map files moved. New provider has good prices and top notch service. Check out raynserv.com if you are looking for a hosting site. New features are available with raynserv., I'm looking to see what I can use to make farcry-maps.com even more easy to use.

slugworthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08245379809953715351noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8847904.post-1104189784310903532004-12-27T17:16:00.000-06:002004-12-29T01:33:12.936-06:00It just keeps getting better

Whee ... got a comment on my blog. Anonymous, so I don't know who it was. So along with the new production 18-player game server, I'm keeping my other dedicated server running. I can probably host 6 to 8 players max. I will use it to host more new maps; play testing, messing around, etc. I'm here to serve. Working on changing web site providers this week. My current provider is not so good. New

slugworthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08245379809953715351noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8847904.post-1103874719833586432004-12-24T01:49:00.000-06:002004-12-24T01:51:59.833-06:00Slugworth's early Christmas Present

My Christmas present came early ... a full blown 18 man server on a commercial grade internet connection. Loaded it up with custom assault maps. wheee!

slugworthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08245379809953715351noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8847904.post-1102773688256932592004-12-11T07:54:00.000-06:002004-12-11T08:01:28.256-06:00Gone again

Leaving town again, third time in five week. More jet lag awaits, I think it's 14 time zones this time. Leave today around noow, touch down at 8:00 PM Sunday after about 16 hours of travel. No Far Cry on my laptop, so I'll be going through withdrawl. Hope the hotel has broadband, wouldn't want to end up like xtencilate.

slugworthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08245379809953715351noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8847904.post-1102542179201651492004-12-08T15:42:00.000-06:002004-12-08T15:42:59.200-06:00Ooooh .... Aaaah

Did a little PHP/mySQL programming this morning and added a running file and download count for the site in some white space on the main page of Far Cry Community Maps.

slugworthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08245379809953715351noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8847904.post-1102406476148048492004-12-07T01:45:00.000-06:002004-12-07T02:01:16.146-06:00Some numbers

Uploaded a half dozen new maps tonight, and I was curious so I ran some numbers. We have over 90 maps available for download, with a cumulative download count of over 27,000! That's an average of around 300 downloads per map. There are 30 maps with over 300 downloads, 12 with over 600 downloads and 7 with over 1000 downloads. Thats a lot of downloads.

slugworthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08245379809953715351noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8847904.post-1101581902141033262004-11-27T13:53:00.000-06:002004-11-27T12:58:22.140-06:00Real dedicated server

Put together a decent computer system with some spare parts I had left over from various other system upgrades. Set this system up to run as as Far Cry dedicated server and nothing else. Previously the dedicated server I was running was off of my gaming rig, so it sharing resources with everything else running on that system. Now, dedicated server is truly dedicated, with around 360 Kbps upload

slugworthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08245379809953715351noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8847904.post-1101337360078905002004-11-24T16:55:00.000-06:002004-11-24T17:02:40.080-06:00A fistfull of FFA

Sweetness. Got the next map pack released. It's full of FFA and TDM maps. Here's the things you have to do to get a decent release of something like this: Figure out which maps might be good Decide on your theme Play test the maps to see if they are OK, don't have technical problems, are interesting, etc. Put together an installer, upload it, and ask some friends to DL and test the

slugworthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08245379809953715351noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8847904.post-1100846778540870162004-11-19T01:23:00.000-06:002004-11-19T00:46:18.540-06:00Phear my l33t PHP skillz

Well, really more like my lame PHP skills. In any event, I modifed the main page for the web site to display the files for download through database-driven PHP scripts. The files now show the download count from the web site instead of the Gamespy server stats. Further, the files are listed in descending order of DL counts. DL counts are automatically updated when the link URLs are clicked. I

slugworthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08245379809953715351noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8847904.post-1100670817635132882004-11-16T23:49:00.000-06:002004-11-16T23:53:37.636-06:00Some travel and some updates

Been home for exactly one day in the past ten days. After seeing the parents at the beginning of the month, I had a biz trip to Corporate HQ and spent a week doing that special kind of corporate fun and games. Got back this afternoon, then spent some time updating web site stuff. The main page now tracks and displays downoad counts for each MP file; I'll get the SP stuff done in a day or two.

slugworthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08245379809953715351noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8847904.post-1099836795184193262004-11-07T08:07:00.000-06:002004-11-07T08:13:15.183-06:00A little change of pace

Took Friday off from work and drove to visit my parents in Iowa. My brothers and sister are visiting this weekend as well, so it's a full house. Mom reqested we all visit this particular weekend, so there isn't much choice. She doesn't ask for much so when she asks for soemthing like this, we make it happen. The chow is awesome, so it's hardly a sacrifice. Helped Dad with some project around

slugworthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08245379809953715351noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8847904.post-1099577924645231142004-11-04T08:12:00.000-06:002004-11-04T08:20:40.873-06:00new maps and leech protection

Added xtencilate's new mp_railway map. Played around on it a little last night, very nice looking map. Another excellent teaser for the Obsidian Edge mod. Also added mp_treehouse, which is the first map submitted through the upload PHP script. Figured out how to use the Apache mod_rewrite module to redirect external direct links so they just go to the site index.html file instead of providing

slugworthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08245379809953715351noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8847904.post-1099362990593210392004-11-01T20:29:00.000-06:002004-11-01T20:36:30.593-06:00Assault of the killer grunts

Got the map pack finished and released. Had some awesome testing help from xcentilate, mad_murdock, and tomatoes, which made the difference between a dud and a hit. Tomatoes gave some good suggestions on web site layout as well. Made some changes immediately, hopefully to good effect. Others I'll have to spend a little time on the implement. Coolest looking (in my mind) is I re-did the GIF

slugworthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08245379809953715351noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8847904.post-1099027010893889782004-10-29T01:14:00.000-05:002004-10-29T00:16:50.893-05:00I got your uploads right here

Got the upload scripting working the way I want. Email notifications, password protection, the whole nine yards. The end result should be less web site maintenance for me, more maps for users.

slugworthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08245379809953715351noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8847904.post-1099012420043388952004-10-28T20:13:00.000-05:002004-10-28T20:13:40.043-05:00Web Site update

Got everything working except the file upload stuff. Still looking over PHP scripts to make this happen with a minimum of security risks and a maximum of functionality. But the design has been touched up. More content, additional information, navigation toolbar; goodies like that. It's all done with the Mozilla Composer and EditPlus, so nothing too fancy. I'm pretty happy with the way it

slugworthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08245379809953715351noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8847904.post-1098983841006352532004-10-28T13:07:00.000-05:002004-10-28T12:17:21.006-05:00How do you like them apples?

Finished the update to the web site layout. Added some additional sections and a navigation bar. The "Uploads" part still needs work. I'm going through various PHP scripts to see which one will work with a minimum of bother and a maximum of functionality and security. Played on tomatoes' mp_santa_barbara FFA map a little last night, alpha testing some of the features. Nice work, interesting FFA

slugworthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08245379809953715351noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8847904.post-1098769855728066222004-10-26T00:50:00.000-05:002004-10-26T00:50:55.726-05:00Yay

Far Cry v1.3 patch is out. Played some MP and SP with it. Works fine, lasts a long time.Tweaked some of the HTML layout stuff for the web site update. Got about 1/3 of the pages done layout-wise. Content still needs some work. Doing HTML tweaks by hand sucks. Frontpage and Mozilla Composer both have their quirks that annoy me. I don't know enough about php-based site automation tools to know

slugworthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08245379809953715351noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8847904.post-1098739362903070742004-10-25T16:20:00.000-05:002004-10-25T16:22:42.920-05:00Patches? We don't need no stinkin patches!

W00t! The new Far Cry patch is out. Get it while the getting is good.

slugworthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08245379809953715351noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8847904.post-1098671674376757822004-10-24T21:34:00.000-05:002004-10-24T21:34:34.376-05:00Some progress

Made some progress on the web site redesign. Pulled all the Frontpage stuff out of the HTML, did a half-baked CSS implementation, and tightened up the layout of the front page. Added a navigation thingie for stuff like "about this site", FAQ, Recommend, Blog, Contact, etc. Kept the color scheme and the major design elements for the most part.You can't see it yet, I need to put together the

slugworthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08245379809953715351noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8847904.post-1098601182238123862004-10-24T01:59:00.000-05:002004-10-24T01:59:42.236-05:00Big fat download files

Got an email asking if I was thinking about putting together one large ZIP file of maps for download. Yes, thinking about it. I'd like to get a few other things sorted out first, like a semi-automated upload capability so web developers can just directly upload their maps on the web site instead of emailing me about the map, downloading, then uploading. More efficient, more time for other

slugworthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08245379809953715351noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8847904.post-1098551686477769602004-10-23T13:14:00.000-05:002004-10-23T12:33:55.156-05:00Craptastic

OK, I was going to spend some time this weekend adding some features to the web site, but I did something stupid and ending up having to reformat the drives on my computer and re-installing everything instead. Time will tell if I get to the web site update stuff I wanted to do.

slugworthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08245379809953715351noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8847904.post-1098551017119190892004-10-23T13:00:00.000-05:002004-10-23T12:33:01.233-05:00Are you Insane?

For the ultra curious, I thought I'd set up a blog for behind-the-scenes action for http://www.farcry-maps.com/

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