> Unfortunately, there aren't a lot of good resources out there [...]

I think that really changed from back in the days when I wrote The Node Beginner Book. For example "Professional Node.js" has been published some weeks ago: http://www.amazon.com/Professional-Node-js-Building-Javascri...

Full disclosure: I did the technical editing for this book, thus I'm highly biased. However, it was a pleasure to receive the single chapters from Pedro Teixeira, the author. It really teached me a lot while working on them. I honestly think it is a wonderful book, and one that Node.js deserves now that it matures.