Posts by Jeremy Jarvis

New Office 2 Nov 08

With new team members coming on board, our old office was becoming a little cramped, so last week we moved to a larger space. We didn’t move far though - just down a flight of stairs at Leeds Media Centre :)

Brightbox Forums Launched 31 Oct 08

We’ve just launched Brightbox Forums.

This will be the best place to start to get help with using your Brightbox or just to chat about anything you like. So, create an account and join in…

New: order upgrades via Control Panel 29 Oct 08

This is something we’ve been promising for a while now, but thanks to some sterling work from Rahoul and Caius, I’m pleased to say that you can now very easily upgrade any of your Brightbox virtual machines via the Control Panel. Simply login, click the “upgrade” link alongside the relevant virtual machine and choose the size of box you wish to upgrade to.

Also, we’ve recently deployed additional server capacity, meaning our lead times for both upgrades and new boxes are now down to original levels.

David Smalley joins the team 21 Oct 08

Hot on the heels of Caius earlier this month, we’re really pleased to welcome David Smalley to the Brightbox team. We’ve known David for some time now so it’s great to finally be able to bring him on board.

David brings a wide range of technical and sys admin skills to the team and will work closely with John, managing and developing our hosting systems and infrastructure. David is also based in Leeds, again highlighting the wealth of talent here in the North (and Leeds in particular).

Introducing Caius Durling 6 Oct 08

We’re really pleased to welcome Caius Durling to our team. Caius is a talented developer and will initially be working closely with Baz on [re]developing our own billing and customer management Rails applications.

Caius is something of a legend in the Leeds Geek scene, even though he only moved to our lovely city a couple of months ago. The fact that most of us first “met” Caius through Twitter says something about his prolific and entertaining addiction :)

See you at RailsConf Europe 2008 11 Aug 08

Baz, Neil, John and myself will be over at RailsConf Europe 2008 in Berlin from 2-4th September. We decided to go the whole hog this year and become a sponsor, which means we get a cell booth in the exhibition hall as well as our logo burned on attendees’ retinas at any opportunity :)

So, if you’re going, make sure to pop by our booth and say “hello”. The event also falls around our 1st “official” birthday (we have several - a bit like The Queen), so we’ll likely be buying drinks one evening. It’s not all work, work, work you know.

We’ll also have plenty more Brightbox t-shirts to hand out.

Baz joins the team 8 Aug 08

We’re really excited to welcome Baz (a.k.a Rahoul Baruah) to the Brightbox team.

Baz is a gifted software developer with 10 years experience and a long time friend of Brightbox. Baz built a lot of our existing billing system and he’ll now help drive the development of the next generation of our systems as well as getting involved in all aspects of the business.

Rumours that Baz only took the job because we have a rather large whiteboard are untrue, although he does admit to a rather unhealthy fascination :)

Welcome aboard, Neil Wilson 8 May 08

We’re very excited to welcome Neil Wilson to the Brightbox team. Neil’s wide-ranging technical (and financial) expertise will be put to great use as we continue to grow rapidly.

There’s nothing like getting stuck in straight away - the first major task on Neil’s list was getting Version 2 of the Brightbox Gem released which he’ll likely be posting about tomorrow :)

So, welcome aboard Neil - it’s going to be fun!

Euruko 2008 Ruby Conference, Prague 28 Mar 08

John and I are currently in Prague for the Euruko 2008 Ruby Conference.

It looks to be a busy but fun weekend - Brightbox is sponsoring the event, providing drinks for the party at La Fabrika on Saturday evening plus we’re doing a special discount exclusively for Euruko attendees.

If you’re here too, do come and say hello.

UPDATE (2 Apr 2008): Had a great time, and met lots of cool people. Check out the photos on Flickr. Big thanks to Karel Minařík and his team for all their hard work in organising such a great event.

Leeds Ruby Thing 4 Feb 08

If you’re in or around Leeds this Thursday, pop over to the Victoria Hotel pub at 7pm for the inaugural Leeds Ruby Thing (for want of a better title!).

No clear plan yet, but expect unstructured discussion of Ruby and Ruby on Rails at least. Plus nice people, beer and geeky tshirts. All welcome!

More details here: http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/423116

We’ll put a little sign up somewhere so you can find us (in case a bunch of people with laptops loudly discussing Ruby might be difficult to locate).