How do I get started with (MuleSoft) Mule ESB

Question

Are there any good resources to get started with Mule ESB? Any good tutorials, blogs or books?

Of course, I have visited its official website http://www.mulesoft.org/ which is definitely a good starting point; however, there is always more that we can learn.

Solution

The following is how I got myself started, and I find it really effective.

First, explore the features of Mule ESB with:

• MuleSoft Official Documentation @ http://www.mulesoft.org/documentation/display/current/Basic+Studio+Tutorial
• Mule ESB Cookbook @ http://www.amazon.com/Mule-ESB-Cookbook-Zakir-Laliwala-ebook/dp/B00EQ67J44

Then, learn the core concepts of Mule with:

• Mule in Action, Second Edition, book from http://www.manning.com/dossot2/

• Understand the code samples from https://github.com/ddossot/mule-in-action-2e

Finally, you're definitely interested to know what are some of the latest trends & techniques for doing your tasks:

• Follow Stackoverflow with Mule tag @ https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/mule

• Attend MuleSoft Summit & Conference (*I haven't attended one myself; however, my friends who did last year seem to have benefited from it. They shared new techniques with me. I'm going for one tomorrow though. I'll share more here if necessary.)

P.S. If you wonder why am I writing all these, I'm doing all these because I benefited greatly from a similar Node.js post when I'm starting with Node. It's called "How do I get started with Node.js" at Stackoverflow.

Please add more to this thread if you know of any good blogs, screen casts and etc... Cheers :)