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

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

• Udemy Blog: Code Wars: PHP vs Ruby vs Python - Who Reigns Supreme [Infographic]
  
• PHPMaster.com: Introduction to PhpDoc
  
• Sankuru Blog: A pluggable compiler and virtual machine in PHP
  
• Ariz Jacinto's Blog: Compiling PHP with MSSQL Server's Native ODBC Driver for Linux as a PDO Driver
  
• Zend: Zend Takes The Pulse Of Developers In The APP Economy
  
• DZone.com: Open/Closed Principle on real world code
  
• NetTuts.com: Zend Framework from Scratch - Models and Integrating Doctrine ORM
  
• PHP.net: PHP 5.3.9 Released!
  
• Robert Basic's Blog: Creating a chat bot with PHP and Dbus
  
• Justin Carmony's Blog: PHP Workers with Redis & Solo
  
• Stuart Herbert's Blog: Introducing ContractLib (Programming Contracts)
  
• Ulf Wendel's Blog: PHP mysqli quickstart is online!
  
• Brian Swan's Blog: Running VisualPHPUnit in Windows Azure
  
• Dave Marshall's Blog: Defending against Cache Stampedes
  
• PHP.net: PHP 5.4.0 RC5 released