communication tool & environment for remote worker

Communication tool & Environment for Remote WorkerTech Talk Tokyo #4

Outline• Who

• About PixelGrid.Inc

• Communication tools & Development environment

Who?

Who?• Shotaro Sakamaki

• Front-end Engineer

• PixelGrid.Inc

• @Geckotang on Twitter

• geckotang on GitHub

PixelGrid.Inc

PixelGrid.Inc• We're JavaScript engineer.

• Entrusted development

• Web application for business

• Single Page Application

• Large scale website

• Technical consulting

We’re Remote Worker• Our office is located in Harajuku.

• The office is shared with SINAP.Inc

• Most of the staff commute to the office once a week.

• We can work anywhere, anytime.

Communication tools

Communication tools• Slack

• Google Hangout

• esa.io

Slack• Slack is a real-time chat application like

Skype.

• We often chat about a project and some question on Slack.

• You can get miscellaneous notifications directly within Slack.

Google Hangout• Google Hangout is also a chat service.

• We can share my screen on our online meeting.

• esa is a web service for document sharing like Wiki or Redmine.

• We write a documentation about proceedings and fringe benefits.

• esa.io can connect to Slack.

• Customer support is so nice.

Development environment

Development environment

• GitHub

• ZenHub

• 1Password for Teams

GitHub• GitHub is a source sharing service for

software development with Git.

• Our product sources are management on GitHub private repositories.

• We can access the sources anywhere.

ZenHub• ZenHub is an extension for Chrome and

Firefox.

• You can use GitHub Issue more useful.

• Simple, powerful project management for GitHub

Task Boards like Kanban

Burn down chart

a parent-child relationship for GitHub Issues

1Password for Teams• We have a lot of passwords.

• Wi-Fi password for Office

• Login password on a server

• Basic certification for staging server

• The passwords are placed on Cloud.

• We can authorize our staffs to access passwords.

How much is the cost?

How much?• Slack : $6.67 per user / month

• esa.io : 500yen per user / month

• GitHub : $200 / month (125 Private repositories)

• ZenHub : $5 per user / month (For private repositories)

• 1Password for Team : $3.99 per user / month

Is the costs expensive?

Is the costs expensive?• Maybe, Yes.

• We should focus on just writing codes.

• If we use a lot of free web applications on our server, We need to maintain a lot of things.

• The maintenance costs don’t come into the open.

• We use a paid service and then we cut the invisible cost.

PR

CodeGrid• Mail magazine about web tech and dev for

Front-end engineers and web developers.

• 800yen per month without tax.

• CodeGrid is working by NodeJS.

• Unfortunately, the posts are written in Japanese.…

http://www.codegrid.net/

We're Hiring!• Front-end Engineer

• UI Designer

https://www.pxgrid.com/careers/