Thanks for taking the time cgag :) The 'non-obvious' aspects was exactly what I'm trying to weed out going forward.

I've built some demos before- enough to appreaciate 'The Clojure Way' of doing things over my experiences with other tools... but what I've really been struggling with was the methodology of development- how do I start a project, how much documentation is appropriate, keeping a tidy source tree, refactoring etc...

I started using IRC just on your reccomendation and, it's one of my favourite things on the internet now :) I'm not sure why I didn't start using it eariler :D