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.
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!
catch up November 24, 2008
Posted by Mutongoria in IT, self, web, work.Tags: asp, odbc, php, wordpress
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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
Posted by Mutongoria in IT, news, web.Tags: education, forum, magazine, review, shule101
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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!
.Net application pools November 18, 2008
Posted by Mutongoria in IT, web.Tags: .net, application, IIS, pools
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Why it is a bad idea to isolate ASP.Net applications by using Application Pools.
- ASP.Net applications all require the .Net Framework, which is a fixed overhead (in the neighborhood of at least 20MB RAM) paid by every process that loads an ASP.Net application. Suppose you have 10 ASP.Net applications. If each application is in its own Application Pool, you can have up to 10 copies of the .Net Framework loaded in memory by each w3wp.exe of each Application Pool. Efficiency says that you really only need one copy of the .Net Framework for all of the ASP.Net applications, and this is possible only if all 10 ASP.Net applications are in the same Application Pool.
- ASP.Net applications do not benefit from Application Pool based isolation (by process identity) because ASP.Net runs managed code, which already has CAS and does NOT rely on user identity nor process space for isolation. AppDomain is the logical concept that is enforced by ASP.Net to isolate the ASP.Net applications. Of course, this is a different story for native code applications like ASP, ISAPI, CGI which do benefit from using process space for isolation.
Application pool is used to not affect the applications running in other application pools while errors in one application pool. It only affects current application pool. Modifying web.config will cause the application to restart. There is a difference between application pools and application. The application pool will consist of one or several worker processes and may host one or several applications. When application restarts, which doesn’t cause application pool to recycle, instead, it only restarts one of the applications hosted by the application pool.
Sharing a web server between development teams is always [NOT] fun. If a developer creates a web application on IIS that uses .Net 1.1 for example (not an uncommon occurance) and some other developer creates a web application on that same server but this second one uses .Net 2.0 (something becoming more common every day). Odds are that the developers and even sometimes the network engineer or web master will allow the defaults to lull them into the false sense that it was an easy and straightforward task.The problem is that they both allowed the “Default Application Pool” to remain selected and now the second of these sites to load will crash IIS.
You can’t have two different versions of .Net loaded into the same process and Application Pool often (though not always) means the same process.
PHP on IIS served warm with MS SQL November 18, 2008
Posted by Mutongoria in IT, web, work.Tags: asp.net, IIS, mcp, odvc, php, sql server
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I am rebuilding an application that had been done on ASP and the only thing that I’d claim to be enjoying is learning new tricks the hard way.
But yes, I am one of those people who enjoy some good old thinking everything and I really can complain. First, am connecting with ODBC which is a little slow and can give you some timeouts if you are not careful.
Come to think of it; am delighted to learn that you can create a view in MS SQL server and then query that view in your code! For the uninitiated. A view is a query. If you don’t know what a query is you may want to read another post. You can store that query and then pick from it in your code. make another query from it.
The things I can do with this thing are endless!!!
Am already thinking about caching huge user databases. Syncing with domain controllers for users and the possibilities are endless. … and they can result in some amazing applications. Bill Gates may not have been the worst wolf after all.
But besides that, I still think that much more could have been done to make IIS a friendlier application development environment for develiopers. Lie microsoft would have spent some time making developer resources available and allowing developers to connect easily to databases of their choice!!
Any how, me thinks that the time is right to delve in to ASP too; particularly ASP.NET 2.0. SAm still using IIS and think that it would be too much of a hassle to move all my million and one applications to ASP 3.5 right away. That means going to class in January for that MCP[Microsoft Certified Programmer] that I have been thinking about – especially now that I work in an office where theh boss can pay for it … mhmhm.
which reminds me – that application I was building may not be getting built after all.
Am the dj sho’s been told to stop his music. Gotta call the boss
php on IIS November 17, 2008
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Sh*t happens …. most of it comes from Microsoft. not that he is a bad bad person – just htat for someone who consumes as much computer grabage as he often has to – there has to be a relevant about of ‘toilet time’ to with it.
My current stress is running PHP on IIS 6. connecting to an external database server. Easy? yes after you have made the php finctions to run smoothly … espcially mssql_connect that connect to ms server database.
more later.
Kenya’s top 18 websites – November November 14, 2008
Posted by Mutongoria in IT, news, Uncategorized, web, work.Tags: accesskenya, bdafrica, haiya, hits, kenya, nation, online, rich.co.ke, standard, stockskenya, top, visitors, websites
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The battle for Kenya’s growing internet traffic is hotter than ever before. Companies with huge spending budgets are threatening to change the way online business goes down in Kenya. haiya.co.ke is one case in point. There is not much change but its coming i can see the clouds and the crowds.
This ranking considers only one thing – Hits. We don’t care if you look like Cecilia Mwangi or like Pamela Jelimo. Just one thing – Do you have the fans? Here are Kenya’s top eighteen websites for the last thirty days.
- nation.co.ke – The change from nationmedia.com to nation.co.ke briefly sent the media house’s primary website tumbling in the charts but it has recovered nicely since then. The design looks like wordpress. Yes! I said it. WordPress. the urls are very unique but they could be friendlier. The addition of user comments is a great idea that should have been brought in eons ago.
- eastandard.net – Kenya’s other daily newspaper. A change of CMS and an improved template has only worked to keep them a stable number two. Understandable considering who they are fighting with. Please ask posta pay to return the space they grabbed on your banner since …. two templates ago.
- haiya.co.ke – New by East Africa Magazines ltd. Evidence that internet marketing actually works. They have invested load in advertising their website on Google and certain other advertising networks. And this is the fastest entry to the top five ever! Congrats people. I hope that the cash investment shows on the returns.
- rich.co.ke – This is the home of all investing Kenyans. reviews, prices and updates. I still haven’t figured out how this guy makes his money! Googleads?
- stockskenya.com – The old home of stocks reviews, prices and updates second to Rich.co.ke but still and impressive top-five contender.
- bdafrica.com – Another nation media website. The business daily has the best search appearance of any news site in Kenya. Business information
- accesskenya.com – Your are Kenya’s official corporate ISP. I give you that. Is the traffic regular web visitors or its your regular clients monitoring their internet connection graphs?
- strathmore.edu – Catholic sponsored Strathmore is showing strong. The only university with an MIT opencourseware mirror this side of civilization. i have to warn you though, if you do not upgrade soon UONBI will zoom past you!
- uonbi.ac.ke – Good to see the university of Nairobi showing up here. There could be hope for Kenya universities after all! The recent design update is lovely! The place for that other design – which you have graciously removed is … There is no space for such design int he top Ten!! Congrats ICTC.
- drum.co.ke – East Africa magazines ltd has Kenya best magazines stable and they are taking them online with a bang!
- brightermonday.com – jobs – There are a whole bunch of Kenyans enjoying Brighter Mondays because of you. Congrats
- kenya-airways.com – Online ticketing, online payments, unlimited budget for the site .. it’s criminal for you to miss out on the top ten! But the Again – i hear the fuel prices have been unfair on you. I sish you better prices ahead.
- richlive.co.ke – Rich.co.ke stocks prices Live on your computer. Need I say more? The best thing since … well … rich.co.ke! Am lovin’ it!
- popotewireless.co.ke – Why am I suspecting you for routing your internet clients through your website?
- nse.co.ke – Dear NSE, I am sorry about your misfortunes. I hear it has not been well with you and your cousins from abroad have infected you with a strange disease. I trust you will all get well soon. especially your cousin NYSE – I was really worried about him. Hope you have recieved comfort from your many visitors. Your greatest gift is of course allowing others to sell your data. I hope you get better soon. Your trully, Investor.
- bestjobskenya.com jobs – doing good as always. but consider partnerships in the coming months else mtashindwa! Tot a threat, but a promise.
- campusvybe.com – Campus – News views and information and campus life in Kenya. Not recommended for people below eighteen years. Totally unsuitable for anyone above 24. Hope that either a) the site is mirrored ont he campuses or b) internet speeds have tremendously improved since we left campus. Where is your sister site: mwafrika.com? Intrepid is making both of ya look good!
- royalmara.com – This campsite website traffic may be party because it was featured recently on SouthAfrica’s leading broadcasting channel – SABC. Kudos for being the first tourist camp on this list ever.
So there you have it. Kenya’s top eighteen websites. Did I miss anything? Hola!
If you have any predictions for december – sema hapa!
Google in Kenya October 31, 2008
Posted by Mutongoria in IT, news, web.Tags: celtel, digital, google, kenya, south africa, web
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Google’s recent investment in up and coming mobile service provider Mobile Planet is nothing to be ignored. Though it is unlikely to lead to an overhaul of the whole industry it will definitely raise the stakes in the messaging industry.
First though, South Africans are still reeling from the news that Google chose to build its African headquarters here rather than in their country! Google is not the first to do so – It comes after coca cola, Hilton, Celtek and countless other conglomerates that are increasing calling Nairobi home.
it has been suggested that it is not so much about ht existing infrastructure as to access to unlimited access to coffee plantations. lol. everyone knows that programmers practically live on coffee. For those from Pluto – Kenya produces the world’s best coffee.
So what opportunities does this provide for it-savvy entreprenuers in kenya?
- recognition in this blog, the Google blog and a million others
- cash investments for venture capitalist s who take Google’s lead as a show of confidence in this market
- technology down-flow from Google to all of us
Celtel on the other hand is sitting on a gold mine I can’t imagine the effect of a money transfer service across … is it fifteen African countries? This potential is what is making google make specific investment in kenya in personel, technology and marketing. I have been seeing them at technology meets all over the place.
This then brings to the other point – Digital colonisation.
- Is it possible?
- is it happening?
- is it good?
- How far should we let it go?
- Who are the digital home-guards?
mskenyan – the font – Obama font October 25, 2008
Posted by Mutongoria in IT, politics, web.Tags: mskenyan, obama, website review
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Just leant that there is a font called mskenyan – alegedly. Never heard of it.
According to this website, there are some mad americans who want other americans to believe that Obama was born inKenya. ANd theyknow thathow? The birth certificate has an mskenyan font! Puh-li-eaze!!
let me be a Kenyan politician for a minute.
That was not me. I was misquoted! and that party has no association with this one.
Speaking of websites, Obama has totally changed the way elections will ever be done across the world. he has bronght a new meaning to mobilising citizens. His website is way beyond expections. his website clearly outshines that of his Republican rival John McCain.
let usforthe sakeof posterity discuss what there is on the his website that you love – or hate.
You can try rank it on the following criteria:
- graphic design
- Usability
- Relevance
- Speed
- Content.
Let me know how many marks you award it.
