In this episode Chris, Matt and Eric welcome this week's guest, Michael, to the podcast.  Discussed this week are the pros and cons of Agile Development (SCRUM in particular) and concept of the duct tape programmer.

• Three of us have used the SCRUM process (or a modified SCRUM process), but what we've really used it more for time tracking than anything.
• The guys discuss the pros and cons of a duct tape programmer.
• We coin a new term - the Scotch Tape Programmer - that is the programmer who just writes bad code.
• The guys discuss all of the pointless domains that we own that we never do anything with.
• If you are a student, get Window 7 for $29.99!

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In the inaugural episode of the Crafty Coders podcast, Matt, Chris and Eric discuss ASP.NET MVC vs Web Forms, Windows 7, Chrome OS and Bing.

• Chris and Matt discuss what the ASP.NET MVC framework is, and how it relates to Web Forms.  ASP.NET MVC is not a replacement for Web Forms.  A lot of people still think this.
• Windows 7 is set for release in October.  Why do there have to be so many different versions?  In our opinion, Windows 7 is a great improvement over Microsoft's previous OS's.
• Google recently announced ChromeOS, but have not set any type of release date.  What is ChromeOS, and will it affect the current market?
• Microsoft recently rebranded Live search as Bing, and we assume they made changes to the searching algorithms.  While the Bing interface has some cool stuff, the results have not been near as good as Google.  You can search both side by side at http://www.bing-vs-google.com/.

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