Some of the web pages I found most interesting this week:
Mentoring is something we do not see enough of in this industry especially compared to other industries e.g. tradesmen where new workers have to serve under a master tradesmen till they learn their craft. I personally find one on one sessions very valuable to my personal growth but only if I am having a one on one with the best people available: why learn from anyone else other than a master?
The definition of Done is Badly Named
I’ve written about what done looks like before as it is something software engineers get wrong a lot: every witnessed an engineer claiming they are 99% done on a tasks for days? This brief article points out that we should not consider done as a concrete definition but as a flexible concept that will change and grow over time: evolving as the scrum team does.
Advanced Segments and E-Commerce
This post on the official Google Analytics blog provides an good overview and introduction to the segmentation features that were recently added to the Analytics service. It also demonstrates their capabilities to create custom segments to help analyse and understand your websites traffic patterns.
This Google service that lets you register your domain and then view GoogleBot’s view of your site. You can upload sitemaps too to help GoogleBot index all the pages on your site correctly. You can also check out statistics for your domain like top search queries, crawl statistics and subscriber statistics too. The service also diagnoses common problems detected by GoogleBot like broken links, HTTP errors, times outs and unreachable URLs. Very useful for anyone running their own website.
Quick Security Checklist for Web Masters
Another post from a Google Blog this time from the Webmaster Central blog. It is an old post but still useful as it provides a short checklist of basic security checks to preform for your website.
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