I heard two good podcasts while cleaning the kitchen last week:

Guido van Rossum, the inventor of Python. You can write plugins for SmartFoxServer in Python, so I'm going to try it out.

The guy who invented Scrum. I like some of the pillars of scrum:

-I like cross functional teams.
-I like 'sprints' of a few weeks resulting in a visible deliverable.
-I like that the deliverable must be completely done.
-I love that the team is left completely alone during the sprint.
-I dislike the daily team meeting.

Well, I like it in theory. I've been on a few teams that tried to use scrum, and every time, all the good pillars quickly wash away in the ebb and flow of development. The only part that sticks is the damn daily team meeting. Worse, without rest of scrum, the meeting goes from pointless to counterproductive, as people over-focus on small daily tasks at the expense of the big picture.

I'd give scrum another shot if I had the chance, though.

In CS3 news, remember the maddening problem I had with the Debug Console? The same is true of the Variable Window. You have to have the Variable Window up when you begin the Debug Session, or else it doesn't get initialized correctly and won't work.