YouTube - Bump keying
Scary - this shows an easy way to open just about any lock in seconds, with little to no expertise needed. YouTube - Bump keying
New Continuous Integration Servers
Jeffrey Frederick, who is organizing the CITCON conference in London, sent out a message today asking if folks had seen or used any of the newer CI servers that are becoming available. It is pretty amazing that over the past few years so much has been done in this area. Check out this huge feature comparison matrix.
Personally, I have only used CruiseControl, CC.Net, and at one point I did a trial install of AntHill. Of those, I have been the most impressed with CC.Net. I found it easy to install and configure, powerful, and flexible. It's been a long time since I looked at AntHill, so I bet that has gotten better too. It would be fun to look at some of these new ones. I'm especially intrigued by the new Java tools that can work with Maven. The dependency conglomeration they do seems like it might be a lot more flexible and robust than the system I described in my post on enterprise continuous integration. That system has been working extremely well on my current set of projects, but I think I might have more difficulties if we scaled up to a larger more distributed team. Some of the tools that Jeffrey mentioned specifically include