Good tips. I've noticed that I'm doing the same things on almost every new Django project that I start. So I created this sample project which I now serves me as a starting point: http://github.com/arthurk/django-exampleproject

If you're interested in Django Design Patterns check out James Tauber and Brian Rosner's talk "Django Design Patterns": http://eldarion.com/talks/2009/05/eurodjangocon_djangopatter...

That looked like an interesting talk... is there any audio to go along with it? The current state of the slides looks like it made a killer talk but only mildly useful notes.

Another interesting talk on django idoms: http://www.slideshare.net/jacobian/django-in-the-real-world

By Jacobian and ubernostrum.

I've been sporadically working on condensing some of my thoughts on general practices in application design and development; some personal stuff has prevented me from working on it much lately, but eventually it will be fully fleshed out. Repository, for those who are interested, is here:

http://bitbucket.org/ubernostrum/appdocs/

and github repo http://github.com/uswaretech/django-design-patterns/tree/mas...

Getting back into Django after a long break, this jogs the noggin, thanks.