I think your comment is really unfair to the guy. You act like he spent 10 years writing shitty PHP apps with out ever even trying to learn anything, which simp

I think your comment is really unfair to the guy. You act like he spent 10 years writing shitty PHP apps with out ever even trying to learn anything, which simply isn't true. In the article he says he mentions using Twitter Bootstrap before he'd even discovered CodeIgniter. Bootstrap was released about 2.5 years ago, so in 2 and a half years he's gone from insecure raw PHP apps, through CodeIgniter and ORMs, to Python with Django. Sounds like a dev who's constantly learning and improving to me. And don't forget he's 18 and in school, so web dev isn't even his full time job. My advice to the OP would be if you're not feeling at home in Django try Rails. I went from raw PHP, through CodeIgniter, and now I use Rails. Rails instantly felt very natural for me, maybe it will for you as well.