One of the latest trends is to include plugin functionality into themes. Over at WordPress Tavern a poll is running with the article, the comments are also a good read, you should be sure to check them out as well.
wplover shares with us a link which shares a previous Wordcamp article on WordPress Security. Also shared there is another link on Search Engine Optimization over at ViperChill.
DesignM.ag shares with us 100+ resources for WordPress themes.
Wp Recipes shares with us a tip on how to use re-sized images in our themes.