Check out the following articles available on Microsoft TechNet:

• Deploy software updates for Office SharePoint Server 2007 that covers the following topics such as:

1. Recommended installation sequence for updates
2. Installing a software update

Performance and capacity requirements for Hyper-V which covers

1. Recommendations for configuring and optimizing Hyper-V
2. Hyper-V test environment and testing strategy
3. 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.