Creating a Django project on Mac

gistfile1.sh

cd workspace

# distribute and pip / uncompressed packages
virtualenv --distribute --unzip-setuptools my_app

cd my_app

# activate an isolated environment to the project (my_app)
source bin/activate

# install the django only on project's python
pip install django==1.4

# creates the skeleton
django-admin.py startproject src

# adjust the src mess
mv src/manage.py .
mv src/src/* src
rmdir src/src

# to use relative paths on code
pip install unipath

# creates the database
manage syncdb

cd src

# creates the core skeleton
python ../manage.py startapp core

# alias to avoid calculate the path (manage runserver)
alias manage='python $VIRTUAL_ENV/manage.py'

# run the server
manage runserver

http://localhost:8000