The X-Team crew spent one month in Colombia, working during the weeks and having fun and exploring this beautiful country on weekends. This is their story. [...]
- Mar 30, 2018
- Mar 06, 2018
How We Upgraded Our Communication
Throughout October 2017, we ran the first season of Productivity Quest — our Slack-based series of challenges tailored to improve the way we work. It turned out to be a huge success and kept the community wanting more. This year, we decided to take a different spin. [...]
- Feb 21, 2018
Remote Meditation Group Challenge
Bringing the benefits of group meditation to the remote environment, this article shows how we started our year focusing on mental health and positive work-life balance through a month long meditation challenge. [...]
- Feb 13, 2018
What Is Open Source?
People often confuse open source with free. Many also feel overwhelmed by the vast array of licenses that may or may not be used for various projects. This blog aims to clear up some of the concepts related to (F)OSS and licensing. [...]
- Feb 07, 2018
How a CTO Can Boost Off+Onsite Team Collaboration
If you've recently hired remote developers to augment your onsite team but are struggling with their integration, we give you the six key habits that will eliminate that problem once and for all. [...]
- Jan 04, 2018
Invigorating a Community Driven by Growth, Part I: Quests
Intro For many of our developers, X-Team is not only a place of work but also — and perhaps even first and foremost — a vibrant community that boosts their growth and encourages to expand and share their various passions and interests. Animating remote communities is challenging, but we pride ourselves on constantly innovating in ways of keeping our developers engaged, motivated, satisfied and growing their skills and productivity. Three years ag [...]
- Dec 28, 2017
Farewell to 2017
2017 was a phenomenal year for X-Team. We personally want to thank every X-Teamer for helping us continue to create the most motivated, inspiring and innovative community where developers can learn, grow and work from anywhere. We were there for each other. We motivated each other. We inspired one another. We explored together. We gave together. And we laughed together (if only you'd seen our X-Mas Party). And really, the best is yet to come as w [...]
- Dec 20, 2017
How to Create a Developer Screencast with Screenflow for Mac
There are many ways to screencast content, but when it comes to developer material, some ways make more sense than others. In this video, we take a look at the paid, yet affordable, software for Mac called ScreenFlow and how it can be used to record great developer content. When recording developer content, factors such as IDE font size and screen resolution must be taken into consideration. With ScreenFlow, we can do post-processing on a timeli [...]
- Dec 19, 2017
12 Days of X-Mas: X-Teamers donate to 30+ non-profits
Every year leading up to our annual X-Mas Party, we bring our community together to each donate $50 to any cause they believe will make an impact for good in the world. We then match their donations to double the impact. This year, the X-Team community supported more than 30 non-profits around the world. We'd like to recognize all of these great causes (and those who donated to them) and hope that they will inspire you to give as well. We give n [...]
- Dec 18, 2017
UnleashConf — The Perfect Way to Integrate Remote Teams
I have the pleasure of being a part of an incredible community. Yes, this is how I think most of us perceive X-Team. However, the issue with remote communities is that you do not see its members on daily basis; opportunities to integrate are limited, despite using Slack or Hangouts. Nothing replaces a real-life hand-shake, right? It is cool to be able to talk to each other remotely, but I think this is not enough to create the much-needed social [...]