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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: OSX
Wrangling Lion Mail for Gmail
In light of Gmail’s awful redesign – I’ve decided to move back to Apple Mail (on Lion). Its a fantastic app, but it does need a fair bit of tweaking before its ready to replace the (old) Gmail web UI. … Continue reading
Tagged apple, email, Geek, gmail, lion, mail.app, OSX, Technology
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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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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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