Inside the Mind of Sators

netstat -an |grep :80 |wc -l

Show how many active connections there are to apache (httpd running on port 80)

Sweet! Discovered on http://snipt.com/

Today marked the launch of a new website for Minooka Bible Church, http://www.minookabible.org/. This was the cultivation of several months of planning, meetings, content collection, design and programming. MBC’s previous website, developed by Sators.com, had not been given an overhaul since its’ release in 2002, therefore making it long overdue for a revision. Read more…

Dang it. It’s been over a month since I blogged. Guilty as charged. My soul intention is to keep writing ever other day or so, but isn’t it amazing how quickly priorities can change and all of a sudden five other things come up and blogging gets pushed to the back burner. Sad because I really do enjoy writing my thoughts out (Jamie is really good at that and inspires me to work on it more). Read more…

This one’s for the tech nerds. I recently upgraded to Adobe Creative Suite CS3 Web Design and absolutely love it. I’ve been trucking along through all the programs until I get to Flash CS3. I design a little nav creation as I have done so many times in the past until I go to start Actionscripting. Whoa – actions can’t be applied to objects?! Have to add listener events and all this new standards compliant stuff. I’m all for standards, but this threw me for a curve. I’m still stuck at trying to figure out how to pass variables to functions called by listener events…as soon as I can figure out how to do that, I think I’ll be back on course.

Anybody got any ideas? Below is my actionscript. I have a list of movieclips that I want to jump around the object’s timelines based on hover triggers from another button. I basically want to pass into the function which object I want to send to “in” and “out” frames and thus save lots of redundant programming…

import flash.events.MouseEvent;
function hoverIn(event:MouseEvent):void{ home.gotoAndPlay(“in”)}
function hoverOut(event:MouseEvent):void{ home.gotoAndPlay(“out”)}

home_btn.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_OVER, hoverIn);
home_btn.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_OUT, hoverOut);