Getting started

I'm doing an evaluation of Turbine as a possible framework for our own
development, but I've run into a bit of a wall because I'm having problems
finding a simple "getting started" application that I can download and use.
What I'm looking for is a tutorial or something similar that takes you
through the steps - how to write Actions, Pages, Layouts, Screens etc., set
up the properties file and so on. Anything that spends 90% of the time
telling how to build something using Maven 1 is a no-hoper because Maven is
not an option for us (which means that if Turbine *requires* Maven, we
won't be able to use it); I need code samples, template samples, config
property file samples. Is there anything available?