Microsoft patterns & practices SharePoint Guidance has been released to MSDN!

http://www.microsoft.com/spg

Updated: SharePoint Guidance 1.0 – Nov 2008

Here are a few of the topics you will find inside:

Architectural decisions about patterns, feature factoring, and packaging

Design tradeoffs for decisions many developers encounter, such as whether to use SharePoint lists or a database to store information

Implementation examples that are demonstrated in the Training Management application and in the QuickStarts

How to design a SharePoint application for testability, create unit tests, and run continuous integration

How to set up different environments including the development, build, test, staging, and production environments

How to manage the application life cycle through development, test, deployment, and upgrading

Team-based intranet application development

You might also see my name, along with the names of a couple of others from Avanade, in the Authors and Contributors section. (Updated to refer to SharePoint Guidance 1.0 – Nov 2008)