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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: 2010
Vintage Lifestyle Mag – Launch Pics
I had the opportunity to shoot some pics at the Vintage Lifestyle Magazine launch party, held at Starlings Coffee Shoppe last week. VLM is South Africa’s first vintage fashion magazine, and is backed by a passionate team of young entrepreneurs. … Continue reading
What I do
A lot of people ask me what exactly I do. I do a few of things… here’s some of them: staffroom – school admin, assessment and management… done right, finally. uniti – unified collaboration for teams, companies, government agencies and … Continue reading
Tagged "The Cavern Today", flickr, Randomness, staffroom, tim, twitter, uniti, warcraft, wow
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Learn, Unlearn, Relearn
The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn. – Alvin Toffler Art Preston’s post concerning “The Grading Conundrum” once again raises the debate of how … Continue reading
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Tagged assessment, Education, Gaming, Geek, mathematics, Rant, staffroom, warcraft, wow
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Chasing Friday
I recently had the opportunity to shoot some photos of local band, Chasing Friday. Despite only forming three years ago in Sept 2007, front-man Phill Black, Neil Broers, Gus Warden and Nico Mouissie, have already gathered local fame with their eclectic and … Continue reading
uniti successfully deployed for the Soccer World Cup
I’ve been rather quiet of late – here’s why: Our team at Umoya have been hard at work on supplying our uniti app to the National Disaster Management Centre for 2010. In September 2009, we starting building Umoya’s next software … Continue reading
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Tagged Chirp, disaster management, Geek, mysql, php, Professional, Programming, staffroom, Technology, umoya, uniti
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Twitter on AppSpot?
This evening, while Googling for something unrelated, I came upon a Twitter status page. I clicked through and thought nothing of it. Later I came back to the tab and the URL caught my eye: http://7920074.appspot.com. What?! Am I missing … Continue reading
Snow this week, from space
Just a short post today with a cool satellite pic of South Africa’s snow-capped peaks, courtesy of the awesome SAWDIS.
Tagged satellite, snow, Technology, weather
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Photoset: Aisling and Mathew
In early 2010, I had the pleasure of photographing our good friends, Aisling and Mathew, shortly after their engagement. Mathew was my Best Man and Aisling was Amy’s bridesmaid at our wedding last December. We’re delighted to be fulfilling the … Continue reading
PHP Variable variables
A seldom used, but incredibly useful, aspect of PHP is the ability to reference variables by name, based on the contents of a variable. Don’t worry if that sentence didn’t make sense to you. Let’s see an example: $a = … Continue reading
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