Justin Hartman

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My thoughts on the TechEd Africa 2009 Keynote

A couple weeks back I was contacted by Eben De Wit who is the Microsoft Developer Advisor for the broad developer community in South Africa and was invited to attend Microsoft’s TechEd conference in Durban. Eben wanted me to attend as a non-Microsoft person in an effort to get

My presentation at the MIH Media Lab Entrepreneurship Workshop

This morning I delivered the following presentation to the students of Stellenbosch University’s Media Lab. My topic was on the start-up lifecycle and I think it went alright. Students are sometimes hard to gauge but I hope that this provided some insight into life running a startup. There’s

CAPTCHA - A sure-fire way to lose customers

A CAPTCHA is a type of challenge-response test used in computing to ensure that the response is not generated by a computer. The process usually involves one computer (a server) asking a user to complete a simple test which the computer is able to generate and grade. Because other computers

Unboxing the HTC Magic (Android G2) phone

My Mom always told me that if you don’t ask you’ll never get and this is true of the HTC Magic phone which I received from the kind team at Leaf over the weekend. I plan on doing quite a detailed blog post reviewing the phone and sharing

GivenGain: Hidden South African Giants

Today I stumbled across an amazing initiative called GivenGain which is run by a bunch of South Africans. Here’s a quick excerpt from their About page. We call our service GivenGain because we believe that we are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we