Yeah, I agree fully. The guy who wrote this article appears to be completely oblivious to CodeIgniter, which is a very, very lightweight framework. I just recen

Yeah, I agree fully. The guy who wrote this article appears to be completely oblivious to CodeIgniter, which is a very, very lightweight framework. I just recently revisited an old CI site I made months ago and it only took about 5 minutes to relearn the whole structure of the site. My controllers are thinner and more beautiful than supermodels, my views are extremely light and logically distributed, and my models are the only places (aside from my JavaScript) where I make reference to any data. When your controllers have one line that gets AJAX data, another line that determines if it's a new item or an existing one, and one more line to die() off the direct result of my model call...life becomes a hell of a lot easier and coding an application becomes an exercise in beautiful abstract thought instead of tedious tinkering.