JohnD: I'm back from Tonga, and I'm bloggin' about Web Parts
Just discovered John Durant's site here https://weblogs.asp.net/johnrdurant/, he is the Author of the The Definitive "Hello World" Web Part Tutorial (see I'm back from Tonga, and I'm bloggin' about Web Parts) which I linked to in this post How do I quickly get a Debuggable/Deployable web part up and running?