Drupal module development

 Hello everyone,
 i have just migrated to drupal, in other words i am a drupal newbie. i
would like to get some tips/knowledge from you to kick on my project.
 i want to develop a community website where people will be posting
different events, news, discussion forum and many more features  using this
cms.
 how can i easily start about developing such a project using drupal., i
mean coding standards, how to communicate with drupal inbuilt features, how
to integrate with different modules., best drupal ide's and so on
 if someone has done such a project can i share some development ideas with
him please.?

 point to note: i have already read alot of  drupal books, also watched some
drupal introduction tutorials.

thanks in advance