Attending a local event such as Code Camp, Day of .NET or something similar can be a great way to keep up-to-date on technologies you don't work with everyday.   These events are usually one day, free of charge and contain a lot of great information.  I attended our local version put on by Chris Woodruff.  I attended the Sharepoint session put on by Rick Kierner   My current role has me doing a lot of Sharepoint / WSS, among other technologies.  Mostly what I'm doing is infrastructure and administration, attending the Day of .NET event introduced me to the developer side.  Here are some links mentioned. 

http://www.heathersolomon.com/blog/articles/148.aspx

Rick Kierner
http://rickdoes.net

40 templates available from MS.

http://www.microsoft.com/sharepoint/templates.mspx

WSP Builder on codeplex
http://www.codeplex.com/wspbuilder

Looking for a place to start (Download the VPC)
www.Mssharepointdeveloper.com

Sharepoint dev wiki
http://www.sharepointdevwiki.com

Sharepoint logs
http://tinyurl.com/3ng88v

I was glad to see Sharepoint has rich logging capabilites, IISLogs (component I wrote) can handle and process logs to keep things under control.   Sharepoint has the ability to automatically clean up logs (which is great!).  However, if you want to keep a few weeks around and zip them up, IISLogs can do the trick.   IISLogsLite 2.0 can handle .log files.

Thanks again Chris, Bill Miller and speakers for putting on a great event.

Cheers,

Steve Schofield

Microsoft MVP - IIS