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Hello.
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: mac
Taking Note
Let’s talk about how we go about remembering stuff with a few simple (and free) tools for the Mac, PC, Web, and iPhone/iPad. How many times a week do you forget your online banking credentials? How often do you find … Continue reading
Innovation to Imitation
“Hello, Windows 8? This is iPad. You win.” That’s Paul Thurott tweeting from //Build/ (yes, the forward slashes are required) where a developer preview for Windows 8 was released this week. You can almost feel the simultaneous relief and collective … Continue reading
The Macworld Philnote
iLife, iWork, MacBookPro 17-inch, and iTunes is finally DRM-Free! It was, by all accounts, one of the most anxiously anticipated Apple Keynotes in recent history. Just 24 hours prior, Steve Jobs had finally released a letter to the community detailing … Continue reading
Tagged apple, Geek, ilife, iwork, mac, macworld, review, Reviews, Technology
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Setting up LAMP within a small network
My friend Alain K is deploying the first version of his soon-to-be-released desktop application, WealthWorks. It is designed for Personal Financial Advisors and Investors that need to track client information, risk profiles, investments and returns. He has a MySQL backend … Continue reading
Tagged 3306, apache, c#, dotnet, dyndns, lamp, linux, mac, mysql, php, port forwarding, Technology, wamp, xampp
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Refreshing Podcasts
From time to time I have a problem getting the podcasts I’m subscribed to, to update. For example, a new MacBreakWeekly (www.twit.tv/mbw) was released last night yet my iTunes refused to notice it’s existance all day… and this is not … Continue reading
PHP+MySQL from the Mac OSX Terminal
I had to write a CLI PHP script today as part of the job-parser for the SMS module in ChirpSchool. The parser executes every 5 minutes as a cron-job and dispatches waiting messages in the Message Queue. I ran into … Continue reading
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