Not sure if I am fully answering your question, but I found that some of the web frameworks and demos helped me understand the basics and get working with it mu

Not sure if I am fully answering your question, but I found that some of the web frameworks and demos helped me understand the basics and get working with it much better, particularly http://nitrogenproject.com/demos http://nitrogenproject.com/demos and http://www.chicagoboss.org/ http://www.chicagoboss.org/. It helped me relate existing examples to sort of pick up on the syntax a bit, still have a ways to go.