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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: php
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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I’m speaking at DevDays 2010
Don’t sit on the bench, get to DevDays 2010 and score with us! Laduuuuuuma!!!! It’s here! Microsoft DevDays is the premier developer event of the year and is all about learning, sharing and interacting with one another and having fun! DevDays … Continue reading
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Tagged conference, devdays, event, Geek, iis, java, microsoft, Opensource, php, silverlight, Speaking, Technology, windows
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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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Speaking at Tech·Ed Africa
I’ve been asked to speak at Microsoft’s TechEd Africa from 2-5 August. Around 2000 IT pros and developers will assemble at the Durban ICC to hear about some of the latest technologies in the tech space. As with Microsoft DevDays … Continue reading
PHP on Windows – Blasting off!
The mention of “PHP on Windows” to a developer is most commonly met with polite but pointed laughter, if not outright disgust. Historically, this reaction wouldn’t be entirely inappropriate. But that has all changed with the advent of Internet Information … Continue reading
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Tagged apache, asp, fastcgi, iis7, linux, microsoft, pear, php, silverlight, Speaking, Technology, windows
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CSV to HTML
I produce websites for a lot of school’s in and around Cape Town. It’s something I started doing when I was in High School, and it’s kinda stuck. Last night I received a Word document with pages of teacher’s names … Continue reading
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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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
New WordPress installed
Hello hello! So here’s something worth admitting: I’ve been running WordPress 2.0 since 2006 and have never once bothered to upgrade to the latest version – unlike Jonathan who seems to update to the current stable almost daily! So without … Continue reading
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