Today we pushed out the fourth episode of The Thirsty Developer, in which Larry was able to take time from the Indy TechFest and have a chat with SharePoint MVP, Rob Bogue, about SharePoint in the enterprise.

The Thirsty Developer isn’t even a month old yet and I can already tell you this is the most fun I’ve had since joining Microsoft. I haven’t laughed so hard in a long time. If you had an opportunity to sit in with us during one of our banter recordings, you’d see why. Some days we nail it and others (let’s call it the other 97%) we struggle. But not in a disappointing way, but in a “oh man, we’d better stop or I’m going to wet myself from laughing so hard” sort of way.

We’re smoothing out the rough edges, and there sure is plenty. One of the struggles we’re having is that we feel that we sound too scripted in our banter. The irony is that there’s not one thing that is prepared in producing theses podcasts whatsoever. Maybe that’s the issue. :)

What we’ve come to find out is if you stick a microphone in our face and hit the record button, we become blabbering baffoons. It’s interesting that, in our jobs, we can mic ourselves to talk in a room of 50 or 1000 people and not have an issue. But once you hit that magic record button and knowing full well that many people will be able to play this back for some time to come, you tend to … well … become a blabbering baffooon. You tend not to talk how you normally would in everyday conversations. And that, my dear readers, is what we’re trying to do with The Thirsty Developer. It’s to capture the conversations we have will all of the great people we meet in this job and share those conversations with you. Now, Larry and I just need to learn how to have a normal conversation with one another while we have a microphone in front of our face and that magical record light is illuminated.

I challenge you to subscribe to the podcast feed. Listen to a few shows, and let us know what you like/don’t like about the format, the subject matter, or even the hosts! The only way we can get any better is if you tell us what you’re willing to spend your precious time listening to. I mean this little experiment of ours is now feeling a little more official as we are now in both the Zune Marketplace podcast directory as well as iTunes.

Another struggle is The Thirsty Developer website. Larry and I aren’t the CSS slingers we once were. I’ll put the call out here to anyone who’d like to help us with a little site design on http://ThirstyDeveloper.com. If you’re a student needing a little experience or someone new to web design looking for a challenge or even a seasoned pro looking to pass the time, we’d welcome anyone willing to give some PhizzPop to the Thirsty Developer web presence.

We’re working through these stumbles, but we’re having a blast doing it. What I can tell you is that Larry and I will have one hell of a blooper reel someday!