Now on Fiber! :)
I am now on fiber 
Finally enjoying 4MB/s..
Bongoza now searches over 50,000 East African Webpages!
Bongoza is now searching over 50,000. Yep. 50,000!! East African Webpages in less than a second. It is Tanzania’s FIRST Search Engine and East Africa’s Largest!.
Local/Businesses Listings Like Hotels, Restaurants, Businesses and stuff will be coming soon.
The Classifieds & Job Search Engine is also under construction.
Here’s da link: Bongoza, Tanzania Search Engine
Bongoza (beta) launch
Bongoza.co.tz A Tanzanian Search Engine has been launched. Its in beta
Mshikaji Screenshot
This is the latest mshikaji screenshot as at 27th July 2007, The design is not as good as i hoped.. But should do for now..
Mshikaji [beta]
Mshikaji is almost done..
The current Features list:
- Profiles
- Profile Music
- Profile Baraza (Comments, or a Facebook Wall Thingy)
- Rating (Rate a profile)
- Messaging System
- Photos (Upload as many photos as u have)
- Notes (Will become a Blog system in few days)
- The Baraza (A place for everyone to talk)
- Videos (Bongo Flava Video’s optimized for Bongo internet connections)
- Music (Listen to Music – English/Swahili/Kihindi)
- SMS (Send FREE SMS to Other washikaji) – Will Work on it later. “FREE” sounds interesting doesnt it?
- Groups (Not Yet) – Its giving me a f’n hard time to make it work..will see what i can do..
Lastly i must say.. Damn im Good! 
Facebook Me!
Recently i signed up for Facebook. Its so cool, Great Features and all.. Anyway, Check out my profile..
http://www.facebook.com/p/Ali_Damji/593731619
Mshikaji!!
Yo!,
About my own social networking site… i found a name…”Mshikaji” and also made a logo for it… (look below)
Features Currently Being Worked upon/done:
- Browse Profiles (Age, Location, Sex)
- Profiles (Kabisa Done)
- Messaging System – 95% Done
- Profile Music (Kabisa Done) – Really cool too!
- Photo Gallery – DONE..
- Profile/Photo Comments – Done..Except for Photo Comments
- Blogs – Working on it
- Friends Network (Add Friends and stuff) – DONE!
- Online Chat – Working on It
- Birthday Reminders – Working on it
- Swahili Interface – Will start working on it…when everything else is finalized..
bNet Radius Billing System (Part 1)
I started building it yesterday… I have currently finished the following features:
- Check users Online
- List Accounts/Customers
- Add/Edit Groups (With Add/Remove Attributed) – radgroupcheck/radgroureply
- Check Calls Log – Who came online and how long, etc..
Attached are a few Screenshots…
Hi! Bongo Launched!!
Say hi! to Hi! Bongo… Well… A few days ago the magazine Hi! Bongo was launched and well, Im happy because i Designed it!… 
Go get a copy now!, Its available at all the Hip places!
My Own RADIUS Billing System
Few days ago i thought of experimenting with FreeRADIUS a very flexible RADIUS server… Over the next few days/weeks, I will be making my own billing system for ISP’s using FreeRADIUS with MySQL as a backend and a very *neat* PHP Front end.
I will be posting the basic layout for the System’s MySQL Database in a few days.
Firefox 2.0!
Firefox 2.0 is now available for download from Mozilla’s Servers. Get it now ftp://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/2.0/
Writing a Search Engine Crawler in PHP
Hi There,
Those who know me, Know that i run Bongoza, The currently close to non-existant search engine. Well, That will change in a few months once i get my server up and Running.
Anyway… For the crawler you need:
- Snoopy Agent (Fetches the Webpage, Extracts the Text, Strips the Links, etc)
- Web Server with PHP
- Some Time (And maybe more to tweak Snoopy)
Crawling Process:
- Fetch Page main page
- Strip Links found on Page, Put in Array for links to be fetched
- Parse page and extract data (Text, Meta Tags, Size, etc.)
- Index Page
- Start fetching pages from Array of links to be fetched. Repeat as Above.
Well, Thats pretty much the idea. Will be posting the code after i get some time to completely finish the code with a lot more features like robots.txt support and all the other features i can think of.
Google now searches Code & Blogs!
Few days a go i found out Google searches Source codes of software and also Blogs, Try out this Google Labs Project:
http://www.google.com/blogsearch
http://www.google.com/codesearch
Google Buys YouTube!!
Google is buying video-sharing website YouTube for $1.65bn (£883m) in shares after a weekend of speculation that a deal was in the offing.
The two companies will continue to operate independently, Google said as it announced the news on Monday.
YouTube, launched in February 2005, has grown quickly into one of the most popular websites on the internet.
It has 100 million videos viewed every day and an estimated 72 million individual visitors each month.
Kenya aims for own internet cable
I know this is old news.. Even then… Good for Kenya and also good for Tanzania.. We can now also benefit from both projects, EASSY and the Kenya Fiber Optic link, Which should help Tanzania to meet its bandwidth needs in the future..
What Tanzanian ISP’s should do..
Hi!,
Today ill be writing about what Tanzanian ISP’s should do to help the internet users of Tanzania.
First of all, The TIX (Tanzania Internet Exchange). The TIX is a first for Tanzania, The exchange point which is located on the Top floor of Posta house in Dar es Salaam, Has around 12 Peers!! which is alot!. If you try to ping a local ISP such as Cats-Net or Benson Online, It will usually return an average ping of 15ms, Compare that to pinging download.com with an average ping time of 700ms. The bandwidth that you can get from the TIX (While downloading stuff from another local isp) is around 2mbps+ (if you dont have a bandwidth limit), While downloading from an international site would give you speeds of around 20KB/s. As you can see… If we have files on the servers of local ISP’s, File downloads would be as fast as in the UK!!.
The first ISP to host software files like this was Raha.com, It was providing a mirror for Tucows. I remember downloading a few software from it at around 60KB/s which was quite fast at that time. A few years ago it was taken down.
The best solution for this is that the ISP’s in Tanzania should have somthing like a “Local Internet”, All Tanzanian sites should be hosted locally, Servers are not that expensive!!. If this happens, Everything else will follow… Local Mirrors, File Sharing Networks and other cool geek stuff.
FREE High Resolution Stock Images!
I just found a few sites with FREE! high-res stock images, They are free to use and only some require that you credit the authors for the pictures..
Jay Z In Da House
Jay-Z is set to tour the world in order to shed light on the current water crisis, with MTV along for the ride to prepare their special, “Diary of Jay-Z: Water for Life.”
The American Hip-Hop singer, whose real name is Shawn Corey Carter, is expected to perform on October 4, 2006 at the Diamond Jubilee Hall in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania!!!!.
Iced Watch (Pure Bling Bling)
If you love bling, Take a look at this cool iced spinner watch
The ASK Website
Have you ever heard of Ask (ask.or.tz), Well, Its a website with a forum for youths of Dar es Salaam, I am currently the “Development Admin” (Respect Me!). The following is what i have done with it (not that you give a ****):
- I upgraded the phpBB script to 2.0.21
- 2 Skins created (vB and Ask)
- Last Online MOD added
- SpamBOT Blocker MOD
- SEO Optimization / Archives for easy browsing and SEO.
Take a look at it www.ask.or.tz/forum
Ali
“You’re not doing me a favour by reading this, Im doing you a favour by writing this!”
The Best game on the web!
Tired of playing all those boring online games. Play the greatest game of all time (According to me), You’ll be up for hours with this game. Its called “The Mafia Boss”, its an online multiplayer game, People from all over the world play the game. There are currently over 600,000 Registered users.
The aim of the game is to rank high, Collect money from your Hustlers & Hoes, Get into a Family, Try to not get attacked and Attack loners
Try it out at www.themafiaboss.com
A basic introduction to mod_rewrite.
If you want a good simple tutorial on how to use mod_rewrite for your site, Take a look at this: http://london-seo.com/a-basic-introduction-to-mod_rewrite/18/
