Day 25 of 100 Days of Code & Scrum: Physical Therapy and Company Website Planning

Greetings!

Today, I went out for my Physical Therapy session so I couldn't spend much time coding. However, I got 3 hours in, which I'm pretty content with for a day with impediments. I also started planning for the requirements and features of my company's website, so I wrote some user stories along with another developer today.

Anyway, let's move on to my daily report!

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Yesterday

I learned about two forms of rendering in Next.js. Also, I read about getStaticProps, getStaticPaths, and getServerSideProps. I kept on pushing through Scrum and XP from the Trenches.

Today

Here are the things I learned and worked on today:

Next.js

• Web crawlers are used by search engines to navigate a website to discover other websites and its pages.
• Here is how the Googlebot indexes webpages:
  • find URLs
  • add the URLs to the Crawl Queue
  • make an HTTP request
  • Render Queue
  • if all criteria are met, the page may be indexed and shown in search results.
• There are 4 rendering strategies in Next.js:
  • Static Generation - the page HTML is generated during build time.
  • Server-side Rendering - the page HTML is generated during each request.
  • Incremental Static Generation - static generation on a page-by-page basis.
  • Client-side Rendering - websites are rendered entirely using JavaScript.
• I learned more about crawling and indexing, including status codes, robots.txt, XML sitemaps, special tags, and canonical tags.

Scrum

• wrote user stories for my company website.
• I continued to read Scrum and XP from the Trenches.
• part-time team members in Scrum are rarely a good idea.
• rearranging teams between sprints are best done at the beginning and only for long-term changes afterwards.
• cross-component teams tend to be better most of the time than component-specialized teams.
• synchronizing the sprints of multiple teams is better than overlapping.

I really had a great time today, even if the day felt really short!

I hope everyone's doing well!

Resources/Recommended Readings

• Official Next.js tutorial
• Scrum and XP from the Trenches.
• The 2020 Scrum Guide
• Mikhail Lapshin's Scrum Quizzes

DISCLAIMER

This is not a guide, it is just me sharing my experiences and learnings. This post only expresses my thoughts and opinions (based on my limited knowledge) and is in no way a substitute for actual references. If I ever make a mistake or if you disagree, I would appreciate corrections in the comments!

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