I don't recommend very much stuff to people that actually costs anything more than time but ...
Udi is coming over and doing his SOA course in Austin. I can't recommend highly enough that people take this if they want to learn SOA/Distributed Systems right.
http://www.headspringsystems.com/soa/
That and you can enjoy the esoteric discussions Udi and I end up in over a few beers late at night in a random conference hotel without thinking we disagree with each other :)