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Tim Bray's slides for ApacheCon/US 2005 contained just five works: Derby, Threads, Beyond Java, Thanks. While the Derby slide was on the screen, Tim announced that Sun will be using and supporting Derby under the name Open Java DB and Francois Orsini gave demo of Derby embedded in Firefox and scripted by JavaScript, cool enough to excite even jaded Ted. While the word Threads was on the screen, Tim talked about Niagara and how CMT processors are going to be part of every webapp developer's future. For Beyond Java, Tim recommended the book of the same name, but took issue with some of the points (see his post on Beyond Java) and tried to stir some controversy by saying that threading features in Python and Ruby are "toys." Surprisingly, nobody took issue with this in the Q&A that followed the talk. On the Thanks slide, Tim took some time to thank Apache for 10 years of wonderful software and finally ended with a simple plea: don't screw up.

Here's Tim delivering the Tuesday keynote (apologies for the fuzzy photos).