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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: Programming
KidsRuby is Ruby programming, for kids
And it looks great. A lot like Hackety Hack. If you have a kid who’s even slightly interested in computer programming – let them play with this.
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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School kids – want to learn computer programming?
Calling budding programmers, developers and geeks! Are you interested in learning computer programming? Want to find out what it is all about, without devoting too much time? Do you have a child or learner that might be interested? The University … Continue reading
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Tagged computers, Education, Geek, Programming, python, Technology, uct
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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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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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Silicon Cape idea – Develophpers Cape Town
I was privileged to get to spend the day with some of the brightest entrepreneurs and founders in Cape Town at the Silicon Cape launch. It was incredible to see how quickly founders Vinny Lingham (of Yola) and Justin Stanford … Continue reading
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
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