Just wanted to give a shout out to Todd Baginski and his excellent SharePoint Development Bootcamp training course.  I'm sure many of you that cruise SharePoint Blogs are quite familiar with him.  But for you Google Searchers (or Live Searchers Paul ;) ) who are looking for a review of his class, here's the bottom line.  If you haven't had a chance to attend one of his classes or at least one of his conference lectures, you're missing out.

I've been writing code for about 14 years now and I've been around the SharePoint block since late 2003.  I've been to many classes and lectures on various topics in the SharePoint space.  I've endured several that have been light on content and full of fluff with maybe one or two interesting points.  Not in Todd's class!  This guy has a deep understanding of the nuts and bolts that make up the collective SharePoint API and it was a pleasure to listen to him (even though business called me out of a few sessions)!

Also, he left behind a collective of resources that are simply amazing.  Added to my personal knowledge base is a collection of easily referenceable courseware chapters, code snippets, and various handy SharePoint utilities.  Good form Todd.  Good form.

On a personal note, I'd like to say something else about Todd.  For all the knowledge of SharePoint development concepts that he possesses, there isn't even a hint of ego. It's easy for confidence in one's abilities to bleed over into arrogance and that goes for any walk of life.  It's not a problem that Todd has.  He's a very humble person high on character and passionate about teaching others what he knows.  I really respect him for that.

Thanks Todd.  It was a pleasure.  See you at the MS SharePoint Conference '08.