Is tech your office?

Here is a nice InfoQ talk about distributed work teams and the tools they use.

http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Technology-Your-Office

The presenter is Horia Dragomir.  He chats for about an hour about using technology to work distributed and covers some unanticipated benefits of using distributed teams.

Some of the tools he covers:

• Skype
• Email
• Google Apps
• Basecamp
• Redmine
• Pivotal Tracker
• Jira
• EveryTimeZone.com
• Git
• Github
• Yuuguu
• Clound9IDE
• Layer Vault

Solve your time zone challenges

Everytimezone.com does a great job of letting me know what time it is there - where ever there is.  In my current situation, I work with folks in Mumbai.  You can click and drag the "now" bubble and see the relative times for any hour of the day.  Cool tool - and free :)

Hat tip to Horia Dragomir and his QCon talk "Technology is your Office"