Commerce Server, Afraid to ask?

Finally getting into Microsoft Commerce Server for work and have been looking around for useful articles to break me in gently.  Some good posts from Max Akbar right here:

http://blogs.msdn.com/maxakbar/search.aspx?q=pipeline+afraid&p=1

The initial thrust of my exploration is Pipelines, hence the first 4 articles in the above search, but the rest is good reading.