I've used ECB in the past and found it nice, feature rich but in my opinion it had too much information and was in my way, not to mention it drastically increases emacs load time. So I removed it from my configs and now only use Dired. Once you get used to it it really is very powerful.

Since becoming a switcher in 2004 I exclusively did my work in Textmate. Early summer 2008 I started to explore other options. I spent a couple of months in Vim, MacVim to be precise, and really enjoyed it. After I got comfortable with MacVim, it's tabs and use of NerdTree for file management started to feel a lot like Textmate. That's not necessarily a bad thing, just not what I was really looking for.

I've never done a series here on 20seven before so over the next few weeks I'll be doing a six part series on GNU emacs as my development environment. I'll be mixing in some posts on art and photography as well as Django related posts so bear with me.

After the launch of Cloud27 and Djangocon, there has been much more activity surrounding Pinax and a few questions about deployment. While the documentation is being worked on, I figured I would write up some general principals on the deployment of your project.