Check out the following articles available on Microsoft TechNet:
- Recommended installation sequence for updates
- Installing a software update
Performance and capacity requirements for Hyper-V which covers
- Recommendations for configuring and optimizing Hyper-V
- Hyper-V test environment and testing strategy
- Recommendations for deploying SharePoint on Hyper-V
JOPX blogs on
Guide to SharePoint workflow development offers links to Introductory material on Visual Studio and Intermediate and advanced resources. There is also a post about
Access Checker which checks what objects within a SharePoint site hierarchy a user has access to.