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

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

• PHPMaster.com: Understanding the Factory Method Design Pattern
  
• Michaelangelo van Dam' Blog: Windows Azure for PHP developers
  
• PHPMaster.com: Learning Loops
  
• Nikic's Blog: How big are PHP arrays (and values) really? (Hint: BIG!)
  
• CodeIgniter.com: PHP Framework Usage Survey
  
• NetTuts.com: Build an Admin Panel with the Fuel PHP Framework
  
• Brian Smithwick's Blog: Software development and the locked box
  
• Sebastian Bergmann's Blog: Using CLANG/scan-build for Static Analysis of the PHP Interpreter
  
• PHP.net: PHP 5.4.0RC3 Released!
  
• Andrew Johnstone's Blog: Vagrant, Automating PHP/MySQL Installation with bash/slack
  
• WorkingSoftware Blog: Your templating engine sucks & everything you've written is spaghetti code
  
• DZone.com: Writing Better PHP: Three Guides
  
• Chris Hartjes' Blog: Better HTTP Request/Response in PHP
  
• Watts Martin's Blog: PHP is not an acceptable COBOL
  
• DevShed: Sanitizing Input with PHP