Site News: Blast from the Past - One Year Ago in PHP

Here's what was popular in the PHP community one year ago today:

• Martin Sikora's Blog: Symfony 1.4 on shared webhosting
  
• Shay Ben Moshe's Blog: PDO Persistent Connection Analysis
  
• Anthony Ferrara's Blog: In Response To: Building Secured Web Applications Using PHP - The Basics
  
• Elated.com: Object-Oriented PHP: Autoloading, Serializing, and Querying Objects
  
• PHP.net: PHP Documentation Update
  
• PHP.net: PHP 5.4 alpha1 Released
  
• Chris Shiflett's Blog: Sorting Multi-Dimensional Arrays in PHP
  
• Ibuildings techPortal: DPC11: Distributed Systems Tutorial
  
• Bastien Labelle's Blog: Why PHP is So Much Better than Ruby
  
• Lorna Mitchell's Blog: phpMyAdmin Designer View
  
• Mike Purcell's Blog: Symfony - PHP - Possibly Forking 1.x so Invested Companies don't Lose Millions
  
• PHPBuilder.com: Beyond the PHP Shopping Cart: Five PHP-based Ecommerce Solutions
  
• Tibo Beijen's Blog: DDD using Doctrine 2: A case study
  
• DevShed: Violating the Liskov Substitution Principle - PHP
  
• Philip Norton's Blog: Netscape HTTP Cooke File Parser In PHP