Even though I am pretty proud of my efforts, late last year I stumbled onto a framework that really caught my attention, the PHP Fat-Free Framework. It has the elements of simplicity I feel really allow a developer to push out code quickly. It's very well thought out and feels very tornado-like in it's design style.

He found the Fat-Free Framework to be a "breath of fresh air" in his development and how it uses things like namespacing and OOP handling for rendering and routing. He notes that it feels similar to the tornado framework in its handling and that the included ORM is useful enough for most needs.