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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.
Tag Archives: google
The trouble with Android
Ice Cream Sandwich, the 4th major version of Android, was announced at Google IO in May 2011. A month ago, on November 14th, Google completed development and released the source code. Sony Ericsson explains why customers shouldn’t expect them to … Continue reading
Tagged android, apple, google, ios, Rant, samsung, Technology
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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
Buzz off, Facebook
In contrast to a week allegations of “internecine warfare among Microsoft’s established divisions and a dysfunctional corporate culture that squashes innovation” comes yet-another-innovative-Google-product, Google Buzz. Google Buzz is Mountain View’s first convincing entry into Social Networking, that isn’t limited to … Continue reading
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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RSS: Exporting from Mail.app to Google Reader
Despite the fact that some believe that RSS is dead (well, some don’t), I still use it frequently to catch up on the day’s news at a glance. Historically, I’ve kept my feeds in Apple’s Mail.app. However, I’ve recently found … Continue reading
Tagged apple, google, google reader, mail, rss, Technology
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April Fool’s 2008
So this year we got a lot of really fun April Fool’s jokes and gags. Google, as always, was awesome! Thank you for the fun Google! I also managed to catch out Alain and Luke, which was endlessly entertaining. gDAY … Continue reading
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