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: Building RESTful APIs with the Slim Microframework
  
• Sameer Borate's Blog: Splitting large MySQL dump files
  
• Anson Cheung's Blog: 8 essential checks on securing PHP
  
• Symfony Blog: Symfony2 Security Audit
  
• ZendCasts.com: Fun with Phar
  
• WebInOne.net: Date validation for CodeIgniter 2
  
• Reddit.com: In Web Development is it better to be a Expert or All-arounder?
  
• Abou Kone's Blog: Set up JSON action output in CakePHP 1.3
  
• Sébastien Thomas' Blog: Monitoring PHP APC cache usage
  
• Stephen Colebourne's Blog: Time-zone database down
  
• Stuart Herbert's Blog: Installing Phix on Various OSes (OSX, Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora)
  
• Project: Patchwork-Doc - JSON Formatted Output of PHP variables
  
• Andrew Martin's Blog: Serving PHP session files from a RAM based disk (tmpfs) for AWS Micro Instance
  
• Padraic Brady's Blog: Zend Framework 2.0: Dependency Injection (Part 1)
  
• Anson Cheung's Blog: Optimize Web Site Performance by using YSlow