Django / MacOS revised efficient development workflow

I've been now happily developing applications (Django in particular) on the Mac for a few years now. As 开发者_如何转开发part of this process I am always looking to gain efficiencies in my workflow and enjoy reading about other development expieriences. Now it's my turn to give back. This is a revision to my previous post with time and expierience under my belt.

Tools of the trade

• A Mac Loaded up with XCode
• A good set of gnu tools (coreutils, findutils, diffutils...)
• A solid set of SCM's git, mercurial, perforce, svn (if needed..)
• iTerm2 - This simply is awesome.
• ActivePython - The free version → with easy_install, pip, distribute, ipython, pylint available to all.
• Komodo - (Yes I paid for this) Have tried textmate, eclipse, pycharm, Komodo simply has most everything I need.
• Dropbox (sharing) / Omnigraffle (mockups) / Omnifocus (planning)

The structure

~/Users/<username>  
    /Dropbox/Projects/<project_name>
        /Documents (Personal Documents relating to the project)
        /Public    (Public Documents shared with customer)
    /Projects/<project_name>
        /Documents ../Dropbox/Projects/<project_name>/Documents
        /Public    ../Dropbox/Projects/<project_name>/Public
        /Development
            <virtual_env>

Starting Out

Create a virtual env and get it activated.

$ cd ~/Users/<username>/Projects/<project_name>/Development
$ virtualenv --no-site-packages --distribute <project>_django
$ cd <project>_django; . ./bin/activate
$ echo "alias <project>d="cd ~/Projects/<project_name>/Development/<project_django/www/; . ../bin/activate" > ~/.bash_profile

Get core modules installed and start a django project.

$ pip install django django-debug-toolbar dbgp
$ django-admin.py startproject www
$ pip freeze > www/requirements.txt

Go forth and develop.

$ cd www
$ django-admin.py startapp core

Comments

1. Everything under www (ignoring .pyc's) is stored in your SCM.
2. Create your Komodo project inside the www tree and ensure that you add the ../lib/python2.7/site-packages/ tree to your project.
3. In Komodo I created several macros which really help me out
   • Debug session runs ./manage.py runserver under pydb which allows good introspection and awesome debugging capability all from within Komodo (as shown above). This is also available in PyDev. If interested I can share this. It requires #2 for scalability.
   • Pylint - Run pylint on your code and ensure at least 8.75 score.
   • Tab Titles - Shamelessly swiped and tweaked from here
4. I use iTerm for ./manage.py shell_plus - This is way superior than the Komodo built in interpreter.

Thoughts??

Please share your views and point out areas for improvement. I'm always searching for better ways of doing things...

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As Daniel pointed out this isn't a question per se. So there isn't an answer - other than sure..