Posts by Louisa Parry

Brightbox sponsor the Scottish Ruby Conference 2010 23 Mar 10

After having such a good time at last year’s event, Team Brightbox is heading to Edinburgh again later this week for the Scottish Ruby Conference.

Again, we’re sponsoring the event and have provided hosting for the website. Our technical director John Leach is also speaking at the conference – his talk “UNIX: Rediscovering the wheel” will take place in the Great Hall on Friday afternoon.

John, Jeremy & Caius will all be attending the conference so make sure you say hi – and grab one of our always popular t-shirts too!

Paul joins Team Brightbox! 7 Dec 09

We welcomed our latest addition to the Brightbox team a fortnight ago – Paul Thornthwaite.

Experienced programmer Paul was a beta tester for Brightbox back in our very early days and has now come on board as our new senior developer. He’ll be joining Baz and Caius working on our customer-facing control panel and our behind-the-scenes systems, and he’ll also take a lead in project managing all the development side of things.

Welcome to the team, Paul!

See you at Conferencia Rails 2009 24 Nov 09

Brightbox founders Jeremy and John will be attending Conferencia Rails in Madrid later this week.

Brightbox is sponsoring the event and John will be speaking on Thursday about the wonders of UNIX – how its often forgotten tools can help with Ruby on Rails development and deployment.

They’ll also have some of our highly coveted tshirts and stickers to give away so if you’re going, make sure you track them down and say hello.

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

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Senior Rails Developer – Join the Brightbox team! 24 Aug 09

We’re currently looking for an experienced and motivated Senior Rails Developer/Project Manager to join our development team here at Brightbox.

You’ll work closely both with our Development and Technical Teams to develop our customer control panel and other backend systems. We’re looking for someone who, in addition to being a great coder, will be an integral part of the team and an organised and enthusiastic project manager.

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 Friday 11th September 2009.

As always, recruitment agents should e-mail our special recruitment company email address: root@localhost
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T-shirt giveaway 21 Aug 09

It’s come to our attention that some of our customers don’t have our highly coveted Brightbox tshirts and we want to rectify that tragic state of affairs :)

We’ve got shirts in a range of sizes – standard unisex Ts from small to XXL, and women’s shirts in Medium & Large.

If you’re a Brightbox customer and want to add one of these super-stylish charcoal garments to your wardrobe, send me an email (louisa @ brightbox.co.uk) telling me your details and what size you would like, and I’ll get one in the post to you as soon as possible.