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Moving to London, Working For GCAP

April 29th, 2008

On departing pubstandards in London a few weeks ago Dirk Ginader said something along the lines of:

According to Dopplr you’ve spent 40 odd days in London in the last 8 months. Don’t you think you might as well just move here?

I’m not saying that had anything to do with it, but I’m happy to announce I’m moving to London in a permanent manner very very soon. I’m taking up a job at GCAP, working with quite a few people I know from various web goings on; Hi to Simon, Ross, Brad, Ed and Stuart amongst others.

Freelancing for the last year has been great. I’d been able to work on the variety of projects I’d wanted after leaving my previous job, and I’ve had more time to myself when I wanted to get involved with other projects. WaSP, SXSW, Highland Fling, BarCamp, Thinking Digital to name a few things I’ve been up to in the past 6 months. But something about working with a super smart team of people won me over. The fact that I’ll get to focus on Python and Django is an added bonus.

Patrick apparently closed the book on this happening some time ago. I’m just hoping someone got the date about right and won the money. I’m sure I’ll write more about the whole thing as time permits and lots of specific topics spring to mind. I have a number of events in the next month to get along to before all this happens however; if you’re along at Xtech, Thinking Digital, London Web Week, BarCamp NorthEast, BarCamp London 4 or @media then remember to say hi. My addiction to attending web events can only get worse with me being nearer London I fear.

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11 Responses to “Moving to London, Working For GCAP”

  1. GCAP’s quickly becoming the new YahooBorg! Nice work Mr. Rushgrove.

    Olly | April 29th, 2008

  2. And damn your comment form for stripping out my ins and del!

    Olly | April 29th, 2008

  3. @Olly Thanks. You can use Textile. Although maybe I should say that somewhere?

    gareth | April 29th, 2008

  4. Congrats. As already mentioned we really look forward to you joining the team.

    Ed Eliot | April 29th, 2008

  5. Congrats! Its going to be an amazing experience working with the GCAP guys, and you are getting in early. Enjoy it, it will be something to remember

    Isofarro | April 29th, 2008

  6. I said it before, I’ll say it again – you’ll fit in well. GCap is quickly becoming a fantastic team of developers to work with. Murray seems to be doing there what he did at Yahoo!, creating the ultimate web development department. I’m sure you’ll enjoy the change anyway, especially as you socilaise in London better than I’ve done (it’s not hard!)

    Si Jobling | April 29th, 2008

  7. As mentioned on twitter – welcome to the team! I look forward to working with you (if you’re on my team). It’s great fun, and yes the team is pretty decent, so i’m sure you’ll have fun throwing about crazy ideas with us.

    Congrats!

    Robert Lofthouse | April 29th, 2008

  8. Glad that the “secret” is finally out :>

    Looking forward to you starting – don’t worry about being bored, we have plenty of work for you to do!

    Ross Bruniges | April 30th, 2008

  9. Refresh London on the cards, then? :)

    Matthew Pennell | April 30th, 2008

  10. @Matthew I’ll probably be living in Cambridge near the station and commuting in. So I’ll finally get to come along to your Refresh Cambridge meetups. In London I wouldn’t want to compete with the might of Pubstandards.

    gareth | April 30th, 2008

  11. Very nice news :)

    Will see you at @media if not before.

    Naomi Atkinson | May 8th, 2008

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