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/
Archive for October, 2006
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..
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..
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/
