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

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

• Kevin van Zonneveld's Blog: Redis PHP Introduction
  
• William's Blog: A Popurls Clone with PHP, jQuery, Awesomeness
  
• NETTUTS.com: CodeIgniter from Scratch: Shopping Cart
  
• TechnoSophos .com: A 53,900% speedup: Nginx, Drupal, & Memcache
  
• Paul Reinheimer's Blog: Memory usage in PHP
  
• Matthew Weier O'Phinney's Blog: A Simple Resource Injector for ZF Action Controllers
  
• SitePoint PHP Blog: How to Handle Unloaded PHP Extensions at Runtime
  
• Chris Roane's Blog: 150 Ways to Ruin Your WordPress Site and Your Life
  
• Brandon Savage's Blog: The Registry Pattern Reexamined
  
• Elliot Haughin's Blog: Building UTF8 Compatible CodeIgniter Applications
  
• Justin Tadlock's Blog: Looking forward to WordPress 3.0
  
• Chris Jones' Blog: Reducing Oracle LOB Memory Use in PHP, or Paul's Lesson Applied to Oracle
  
• IBM developerWorks: Efficient mathematical processing using Scilab through PHP
  
• Brian Swan's Blog: CRUD Operations with the OData SDK for PHP
  
• Phil Sturgeon's Blog: Modular Separation for CodeIgniter 2