Django - Mac OSX Workflow - Questions on efficient development methodologies

Question

I am going to outline my workflow and I would like some suggestions on how to improve the efficiency of this. It seems right now a bit cumbersome and repetitive (something I ha

Answer 1

I find it smoother to write unit tests more often and only use the shell when something is failing and it's not obvious why and you want to poke around to figure it out. It is a little more inefficient at the very beginning, but quickly becomes a wonderful way to work.

I also tend to concentrate on getting the model more or less stable and complete (at least as far as what will affect table structure) before I work on the views and need to run the server. That tends to front-load as many resets as possible so you're doing them when it's cheap.