Justin Hartman

Posted on June 3, 2011 - by Justin Hartman

Digital strategy in SA simply doesn’t exist

If you know me at all then you’ll know how difficult it can be for me to make big decisions. It’s not because I’m indecisive but rather due to the fact that I often over analyze these decisions by looking at each possible scenario and then try to figure out what the possible outcomes could [...]

Posted on August 6, 2009 - by Justin Hartman

TechEd Africa 2009 Summary

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TechEd Africa 2009, Microsoft’s pinnacle conference that attracted more than 2000 delegates has ended amongst a hive of activity within the Microsoft community. Microsoft sure does know how to get its users and developers excited by the prospect of new software, approaches and company developments! Attending the conference was an interesting experience and I have [...]

Posted on August 3, 2009 - by Justin Hartman

My thoughts on the TechEd Africa 2009 Keynote

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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 some perspective on the Microsoft offering [...]

Posted on July 29, 2009 - by Justin Hartman

My presentation at the MIH Media Lab Entrepreneurship Workshop

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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 also some interesting insight into the Afrigator [...]

Posted on July 7, 2009 - by Justin Hartman

Should companies fear Social Media?

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In the last week or so there’s been a huge furore in the South African Social Media scene around the pricing of Apple products in the market. For those not in the know Apple is solely distributed by the Core Group who have had the monopoly in SA for a number of years now. I’ve [...]

Posted on June 18, 2009 - by Justin Hartman

CAPTCHA – A sure-fire way to lose customers

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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 are unable to solve the [...]