>the larger one Django immediately turned from 'enabler' in to 'straightjacket'. Yeah, I've had a bit of enlightenment regarding that. I think the trick is to

>the larger one Django immediately turned from 'enabler' in to 'straightjacket'. Yeah, I've had a bit of enlightenment regarding that. I think the trick is to eventually treat it a bit like Philosophy. Toss aside what you encounter to be a problem, take with you what is useful. The signals backend and request object encapsulation has proven invaluable, combined with the corpus of snippets and tricks out there. The templates are really starting to get on my nerves. Probably going to use Jinja2 outside of work here on out. well, it's been a step-up from what I've experienced because of a perfect storm occurring from the power of combining generic views, quick-n-easy pagination, the ORM, and template inheritance. I've become incredibly productive in Django in spite of the annoyances. In fact, you may want to check out "annoying django" for some hacks and neat features to deal with some painpoints. This includes an AJAX view decorator to quickly pass json back and forth.