Archive: posts from October 2009

The Brightbox Toolkit 21 Oct 09

It’s been quite interesting to read the recent “Tools of the Trade” meme where people are blogging what they use to do their job. I found it so interesting in fact, that I decided to find out what tools we all use at Brightbox. Here’s our list.

Caius

Hardware

• 15” Macbook Pro (Unibody) with 4GB ram, 7200rpm 320GB HD
• 48GB SSD Expresscard
• 24” Samsung External Monitor

Software

• TextMate – My third arm.
• iTerm – Gives me back cmd-<num> for switching tabs
• Adium / Tweetie / Limechat for communication
• Safari – Eats ram, but I still prefer it to any other mac browsers
• HTTP Client – Graphical curl, great for debugging XML calls
• Markdown – I write everything in it.

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Linux Sys Admin – Join the Brightbox team! 7 Oct 09

We’re looking for an experienced and motivated Linux Systems Administrator to join our Technical Team here at Brightbox.

You’ll work closely with our Technical Director and Senior Sys Admin to run our virtual hosting platform, our Ruby on Rails hosting clusters, our network and our MySQL databases. A full job description is below.

The role is full-time and you can work from home, from our office in Leeds, or a bit of both (the rest of us do a bit of both).

Send a hello, a CV and salary expectations to jobs at the Brightbox UK domain. CVs should be in an open format, preferably PDF or plain text. Closing date is 24th October 2009.

As always, recruitment agents should e-mail our special recruitment company email address: root@localhost

• More jobs available at Brightbox
• More about working for Brightbox

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