As Stan Lee noted, "With great power there must also come -- great responsibility!" David Platt examines some of the great UI building power in WPF and provides some universal words of caution for developers tempted to fill their apps with too many eye-popping effects.

Via the virtual world of Second Life, Dr. Dobb's Editor-in-Chief Jonathan Erickson presents Grady Booch with this year's Excellence in Programming Award.

On Wednesday night, the 2007 Jolt Awards honored the highest achievements in 17 categories of software development tools.

Robert C. Martin wants you to be a professional craftsman—and that means he wants you to be fast, clean and well-tested.

Mary Poppendieck, in a Monday lunchtime keynote, outlines the emergence of Agile ideas in the last four decades of software history.

Consultant Kevlin Henney distills good C++ programming practice into thirteen concise recommendations that can help you keep code size down and reduce unnecessary complexity.

Michèle Leroux Bustamante provided a detailed view of the past and present of web services on the .NET Framework

Amr Elssamadisy led a Monday morning tutorial that answered some common questions about how Service Oriented Architectures can be built with Agile methods and Test-Driven Development.

New Tracks in Web 2.0, Ruby and Windows Vista lead off a strong line-up for the 20th Annual SD West 2007 Conference.

There's a lot to know about Java Security. A full understanding of the java.security classes is a start, but that won't get you all the way. Allen Holub's Monday-afternoon "Java Security" class will fill in the missing pieces.