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Tim is an entrepreneur, software developer, and speaker who’s based in Cape Town, South Africa.
Tim created staffroom - the unified school management system, and is the Lead Developer at Umoya Software.
A UCT graduate, Tim specialised in Computer Science and Psychology, and has a particular interest in building systems which are intuitive and easy to use. He is passionate about the intersection of technology and education and has spoken about this at various conferences and schools across the country.
He is the founder of EdTechConf - a grassroots conference to bring passionate ICT educators together.
Yearly Archives: 2009
An Oxymoron’s Guide to PHP on Windows
I had the privilege of speaking at SA Developer Cape Town last night. Twenty-something local geeks turned up to hear about how well the Open Source PHP language runs on Windows IIS, using FastCGI. For the longest time, the utterance … Continue reading
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Tagged azure, fastcgi, iis, microsoft, Opensource, php, Programming, silverlight, Speaking, Technology, wincache, windows
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Google Go
Google is touting its new Go language as a modern systems programming language which is expressive, concurrent, garbage-collected. Go takes the development speed of working in a dynamic language like Python, and combines it with the performance and safety of … Continue reading
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Tagged 10.6, compiling, gcc, Geek, go, google, Opensource, OSX, Programming, snow leopard, Technology, unix
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No VoIP for iPhoners without Wifi
It sounds like Dave Gale had a bad day with his iPhone 3G and Vodacom today. I’m on the road today, between a client site [that's us] in Westlake and the home office when I discover that Vodacom have decided … Continue reading
Silicon Cape idea – Develophpers Cape Town
I was privileged to get to spend the day with some of the brightest entrepreneurs and founders in Cape Town at the Silicon Cape launch. It was incredible to see how quickly founders Vinny Lingham (of Yola) and Justin Stanford … Continue reading
Staffroom: Effective School Admin
Hopefully this doesn’t across as an ad – its not. I want to discuss why we bothered building an application to help make teacher’s lives easier. Here goes. The majority of my life has been spent around teachers. My father … Continue reading
YouTube talent
I recall the first time I came across YouTube in 2005. Ryan Warzecha suggested we at The (then highly active) Cavern Today put our video content onto a new website called “YouTube”. My immediate reaction was somewhat negative. I assumed … Continue reading
Facebook acquires Friendfeed.
Facebook, the insanely popular Social Network, has acquired Friendfeed, the increasingly powerful Social network aggregator. The financial terms aren’t being discussed but Facebook’s primary gain here is talent over product. The Friendfeed team of ex-Googlers like Paul Buchheit (creator of … Continue reading
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TechEd Session: Embrace OpenSource on CodePlex
Title: Embrace OpenSource on CodePlex Presented: Microsoft TechEd Africa 2009, Durban, South Africa. Date: 3 August 2009 Link: View on Slideshare If you’re a software developer interested in running an open source project or just looking around for a particular … Continue reading
TechEd Session: PHP on Windows
Title: Windows Server and FastCGI technologies for PHP Presented: Microsoft TechEd Africa 2009, Durban, South Africa. Date: 2 August 2009 Link: View on Slideshare PHP is a wildly popular scripting language for the web, and powers some of the largest … Continue reading
TechEd Africa: 4 days to go…
Well, looks like its a mere 4 days ’til Tech•Ed kicks off in Durban. I’m putting the finishing touches on my two sessions and look forward to delivering them on Monday 3 August and Tuesday 4 August. Windows Server and … Continue reading
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