Work and Drupal November 19, 2009
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its that time when I start remembering that Ihave not been blogging as much as I had planned to but will improve . . . . soon!
Been doing lots of stuff with Drupal and I love it, love it, Loooove it!
Give, Drupal is not for the easy hearted but it can work miracles!
Done one major site with it and hoping for a bigger bigger thing.
Cheers
soqko.com, east africa’s new jobs marketplace November 4, 2009
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soqko.com, east africa's new jobs marketplace
This new website caught my eye and I loved it at once!
Kenya ni nchi yangu, ni nchi huru, tunaipenda sana October 1, 2009
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Kenya’s top websites – February March 2, 2009
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After a short break the Kenya monthly top twenty web listings are back and the details are alarming at the least!
- Nation.co.ke – same old same old
- East African Standard – same old numner 2
- Rich.co.ke – kenyan investors are worried about the goings on at the NSE. I hope they are finding the encouragement they need with Satchu
- Bdafrica.com – No 2 of 6 nation media websites in the top 18. Amazing!
- Intokenya.com – What’s your name again?
- Haiya.co.ke – Haiya!
- Safaricom.co.ke – making up for poor customer service by going online . .. I like!
- Drum.co.ke – Is it me who doesn’t understand or is there nothing on your site?
- Yu.co.ke – one page for people to book their numbers! Nice flash on the banner – I like!
- Daily Nation and Sunday Nation – old empty homepage. Are you really that popular?
- Kenya Airways – mhmhhm
- Stockskenya.com – Where did richboy pass you by?
- AccessKenya.com – How? How? How?
- Yrafrica.com – Siamini
- Mysticalafrica.com – mmhmhm
- Kenyaonetours.com – mhmhm
- Wananchi Online – Nice!
- University of Nairobi – Welcome to the top category – hope you can keep up … having looked at your new homepage I know you can make it.
its been a long time February 26, 2009
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Its almost the third month and i have barely done anything on my blog! bad bad bad
Not that I’ve been doig nothing on the contrary perhaps its the busy-ness that has been keeping me away from this blog.
Jus t noticed that ht e hits have been going up and am quit eglad about that. I, however think that I can do much better – perhaps get up to 500 users per day … Dont ask how many am getting now!
I’ve been working with drupal, building the main application for our organization. I love drupal. its easy and its powerful; two things that you ususallay dont find together.
I’ve also been checking out google’ s Youtube API and loving it lots.
Next I hope to makke a video sharing website that rides on Youtube resources – Mtapenda.
Gotta go now – gotta run some emails on PHP in IIS. Yes its possible.
Kenya’s top websites – January 2009 January 17, 2009
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The new year is here and expected the Kenyan websphere is banging!
- Nation.co.ke ;
Same old. same old - East African Standard
same old. same old. - Rich.co.ke
Moving up nicely. … Where is your sibling: richlive.co.ke? - Safaricom.co.ke
If you were not safaricom you wouldn’t be here now, would you? - Bdafrica.com
The number of websites eyeing your position are as many as the sands of the ocean! - Kenya Airways
Keep on keeping up - Softlinkoptions.com
How? how? how? - Haiya.co.ke
mhmhm - AccessKenya
I still dont understand - Yu.co.ke
After all that advertising? where is the one bob offer that Kenyans were expecting to get from you? - Mashada Discussions
All kenyans who hate other tribes meet here. - Orange.co.ke
Pssst! You are looking good. - Examscouncil.or.ke
It is that season of the year. I was online when the education minister announced the kcpe results 2008. he said that the results would be made available online immediately after he finished talking and it was exactly like that! Congratlations. Next you need to get that shao design! - Mysticalafrica.com
mhmhm - Kenyaonetours.com
mhmhm - Swift Global
Annother accesskenya case. How? who visits web service providers websites banyway? - Intokenya.com
Am watcing you!
ZUQKA.COM Review December 17, 2008
Posted by Mutongoria in IT, entertainment, news.Tags: aggregate, content, drupal, feeds, haiya.co.ke, review, zuqka.com
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ZUQKA.COM Reviewed
Given it was the first website in Kenya to be advertised ont he front page of the country’s leading newspaper. that is a success for all of us web industry professionals.
So i’ve been checking it out there really isn’ t much to say for zuqka.com
First – it went down in its very first day – imagine that! and wiht the advertisng on the front page of the nation daily newspaper and a 16-page pullout! I bet the manager at nation who negotiated the deal is in hot water as we speak.
Then its stayed down for some days. Sorry no screen shots but we all got to know that they use the Centos Operationg system whose websites is bla bla bla and support can be acquired from …..
It gets scary when even the place holder crashes. The messsge they had that “This party is not yet started; leave your email and we will inform you when it starts”. even that crashed!!
Now it seems that their party has strated and well … there isn’t much to it. They have made an interesting implementation of drupal with the blogging module and an aggregator from blogs that has a tendency to loeave you hanging. That, not nice!
Content might become a serious issue for these guys. Its will be really really difficult to convince the Nation Media group to let them host their content. Most companies have very serious policies on hosting of content and I cant wait to see what options Zuqka will explore. The other option is to agregate from feeds all over the place and that raises countless issues. they will have to link to the source of the feeds – the blogs, news sites etc. That lowers their page rank. They will post content that has been previosly been posted elsewhere on the web and that will build the profile of the original poster of the content.
i think zuqka will find it hard to compete with haiya.co.ke.
I think that natioon is already thinking about how to implement its own Zuqka.com alternative.
Dj kalonje Reviewed – the youngest dj in kenya November 28, 2008
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Confession – I have never met this guy, actually never seen him play but since I have been made to listen to him – I may just as well make a post about it.
I have been following the work of this dj for some time now and think it appropriate since I lend him my ear at least thrice every week. I hear him in matatus as i head home in the evenings or as I come to work in the morning – apparently the drivers and conductors of public transport where I come from consider him a guru in arts of public entertainment.
I beg to differ – over the last year – I think I have seen DJ kalonje transform from a kid who has nothing to his name but borrowed vcds to a fairly … acceptable .. mixmaster.
Mixing skills [7 out of 10]
there has been great improvement in the quality of his mixes. At least the beats dont clash anymore! I still hold one of his mixes in my archives on examples of how-not-to-mix! But this morning I heard his mix of Jah Watchman’s club anthem and R Kelly’s Burn it up - I had to admit that his fingers are not quite as shaky! You can always tell a real dj by his ability to cue a single, remixing it on the fly and something little I call re-beating where the dj remixes the whole sample by juggling a single beat. DJ Lastborn is perfect at this. Dj kalonje is learning nicely.
Music selection [6 out of 10]
Not much to write home about his selection of music. Not much to complain either. It is just there!
MC [5 out of 10]
Saying that you are the “youngest dj in East Africa” doesn’t sound very attractive for anyone who has been more than a year out of high school! I doubt it sounds good even to those who are currently in primary school. I love dj Adrian’s ‘your favourite dj’s favourite dj!’ that is one smasher of a line! I hope dj kalonje reads this so if you have any suggestions please post them here.
Video [5 out of 10]
The five point are only for they syncing that has been attempted [with some success] in recent releases. Other wise, like all Kenyan video mixers [except blackstar entertainment @ citizen tv] the video is wack to say the least and the mixing has have been done with scissors or a hacksaw. Video editors know what I mean.
Part of it is not his fault – videos available in the Kenyan market are Wack! But is that an excuse to …. can’t you try some creativity. Words that don’t keep popping! remove the adverts and please please please do not make a video transition last more than five seconds. Your transitions are torture!!!
Anyhow, Dj kalonje – I believe you can.
If you grow by another 150% in the next six months I promise to like you!
catch up November 24, 2008
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So I’ve been away for a week!
its been that long?
yes it has.
Sorry bwana – niliwakosa sana. Mpo vipi?
Actually, i never left
been online all this time but tied with assignments projects and idling on facebook.
that is solved now.
I have suspended my facebook account.
yes I have!
Instead of always watching my back at the office … facebook should be illegal anyway …
so I’ve left facebook tou join … YOU!
Isn’t that nice?
by the way I have been working on wordpress – crazy sh*t if there ever was.
But it was great and i should be doing very well very soon. – financialy.
Yaani, tear wordpress apart and put it back together- wiht exceptional user features – with an additional custom-made content management system integrated.
Also did some work with SMF [simple machines forums] – setting up a custom template to go with a matching wordpress magazine theme.
So you see, I’ve been quite busy – by my love for my peeps is there still.
nest i wat to creat a directory with coursers. different institutions – similar and same and different courses. then ratings, searches, advertising, subscriptions and some nice profits!!
i’ll make some wordpress tutorials soon – when there is time.
I’m loving it more and more each time.
I am thinking I should change my biz website to wordpress! yes I know we work great together. I wanted to redo it full flash but after seeing the whale hunt i thought … who has the time? But if I get one hot client I promise to do one for the fans.
i am now having an ongoing affair with ASP. yes I know she is bad but sice 90% of computers inthe world run windows … please understand. But I’ve set up all our servers to also run PHP. Connecting to ms sql erver is more sh*t but i hacked it with ODBC!
gotta go now.
nawapenda wo!
Kenya education Magazine Review November 20, 2008
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Shule101 Home Page - Education Magazine and Directory
This new website was recently brought to my attentiona nd am planning to do a review of it as soon as I get some time on my hands but here is a brief.
1. Design 9/10
2. Functionality 8/10
3. Content 7/10 – Nice articles but Origunal?
4. Custom feature: 6/10 -The directory is amazing but you need to kickstart it – Add details please
5. Logo – Beautiful!
