Announcing Bonfire - A jumpstart for your web apps

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@kilishan

Thanks for sharing your hard work, hopefully some of us will start actively contributing and help in shaping your bonfire vision.

Bonfire has been a big change for me since I cloned it 2 days ago. I'm no freelancer or web-solutions developer, just a system administrator who likes to build some tools to help other colleagues productiveness in a low-fund public health care center.

My already CI powered apps are quite ABC. A MY_Controller with some view help functions, a few controllers and models, and a main header+content+footer view file with load->views inside. They were born from CI_1.6, and today are happily living under CI_Reactor.

I've been reluctant in refactoring my ci_apps. For too long. It's time to reaally check HMVC, time to implement and use a good a template class, time to implement some of those great libs out there, etc..

Bonfire has made me decide to finally evolve (after a "false start" with pyroCMS). Yeah, just that click that I needed. Thanks for that man.
Main goals:
I'll start with migrating old apps to bonfire environment, than re-factor them in modules, then building modules from scratch. Along the way, understand HMVC clearly, and make good use of bonfire dashboard. By the end I hope I'll have enough confidence to retribute and contribute to bonfire's repo.

I'd like to ear some of your or community thoughts:

1. If I had to go live with my old app a.s.a.p., I guess that I just need to drop files in application folder and tweak index.php and config/db files. What's advisable to do when dealing with my old MY_Controller.php?
2. If instead I decided to drop the old_app in a module folder, besides expected breaks, do you see any big cons to face?
3. In your writings, you enfatize your worry to avoid overkills and overheads. Can you point some of those general "better don't do" advices related to performance? I have no idea what critical objects we should avoid feeding large datas.... the thought of a template class will have to make room for everything the site displays scares me...

I'll find these answers by myself probably, but I would really like to ear other people PoV.

Thanks, sorry for the big post, had too.