First steps on Django

While I have been coding in PHP for last years, I think that it's time to change. In the next few weeks, I will try a few nice web frameworks.
First stone will be Django. This Python framework looks interesting:

• Google supports it with its fork for "Google App Engine".
• Its community has grown a lot on last year since the launch of version 1.0.
• Python is now a very mature and consolidated language.
• It has a nice and simple template system.
• Its development server seems handy.
  

My former colleague, Juanjo Alvarez, has done in his blog a deep analisys of Django (in Spanish).

First problems: as a web developer, I am coding now in WinXP for compatibility reasons. The development server does not answer after a few develpmente cycles. Restarting again the server on the same port doesn´t work. My solution at the moment is to restart the server in a different port (8001 instead of default 8000, i.e.).
Users who work in Linux doesn't report any problem with the development server. It seems a configuration or version bug.