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

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

• PHPBuilder.com: Introducing the Yii PHP Framework
  
• Symfony Blog: Symfony2: Getting easier
  
• PHPRiot.com: Reducing a Map Path Using Douglas-Peucker Algorithm
  
• Chris Jones' Blog: Malicious website use will never go away: how do you manage it?
  
• Vito Chin's Blog: Book: PHP Development in the Cloud
  
• SitePoint PHP Blog: Simple Object Iterators in PHP
  
• James Cohen's Blog: How to Avoid Character Encoding Problems in PHP
  
• Zend Developer Zone: My Favorite Design Patterns
  
• Chris Roane's Blog: The Last Few Years: What a PHP Programmer Has Learned
  
• Eran Galperin's Blog: Breaking Down The PayPal API
  
• Brian Moon's Blog: PHP Frameworks
  
• Leonid Mamchenkov's Blog: Disable and enable CakePHP plugins on the fly
  
• Hannes Magnusson's Blog: There is an app^Wppa for that
  
• Shay Ben Moshe's Blog: PHP's native array vs SplFixedArray performance
  
• PHPBuilder.com: Use PDO to Access Just About Any Database from PHP