We know that Cornwall is a unique place to live and work, but did you know how this encourages an incredible tech scene to flourish and grow?

Chris Wright, Shona Rock, Chris Ellis, Gilly Swift, Rob White (left to right)

No, that’s not Bluefruit's very own Cheerleading Squad – we have 6 new colleagues! A warm welcome to our new (and very fit) team members.

Design Credits: www.vecteezy.com

For all of its achievements in innovation and forward thinking, the tech industry still has a major problem with diversity, mental health, and addressing employee issues. Today, across the globe Google employees are walking out over the mistreatment of women within the business

We are extremely excited to announce that we’ve been chosen as a finalist in the “Rural Business of the Year” category at the Amazon Growing Business Awards!

One of our favourite conferences “Agile on the Beach” took place 3 weeks ago in Falmouth. If you haven't come across it yet and work in an agile / tech environment we really recommend this conference which boasts multiple talks over 2 days, exploring the latest techniques Software Development & Delivery, Business Agility, Agile Teams & Practices, Product Design, and Management.

Time flies and the first week of our Agile Huddle is already over. In previous years, we’ve created mock projects for teams to work through. However, this year we decided to change things up a bit and use the project to do some good for a local social enterprise.

Catriona Tong and Steve Forth

There are around 13.3 million disabled people in the UK. In 2017, 376,000 people with disabilities of working age were unemployed. Over half of UK employers are potentially missing out on hiring the best person for the job because they are unintentionally excluding disabled talent.

A few weeks ago, four intrepid Bluefruit colleagues made their way to London to join the Women of Silicon Roundabout conference which is all about inspiring, celebrating and connecting women working in technology

One of our Bluefruit colleagues recently visited the National Museum of Computing at Bletchley Park which hosts the world’s largest collection of functional historic computers. The museum enables visitors to follow the development of computing from the ultra-secret pioneering efforts of the 1940s through to the large systems and mainframes of the 1950s, 60s, 70s and beyond.

It's National Apprenticeship Week - time for us to introduce you to our third apprentice, Elliot Paull! In his blog post, Elliot will talk us through his experience during his apprenticeship and demonstrates one of his projects in a short video. During that work-related project, he not only shows some programming skills but also uses TDD to continue developing the game. Well done Elliot!