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: Creating Web Services with PHP and SOAP, Part 1
  
• Enrise Blog: Zend Framework 2 Performance
  
• PHP.net: PHP 5.4.0 RC8 released
  
• NetTuts.com: PDO vs. MySQLi: Which Should You Use?
  
• PHPMaster.com: WordPress Plugin Development
  
• Marcelo Gornstein's Blog: Sniffing in PHP using libpcap: Thank you SWIG!
  
• DZone.com: Writing clean code in PHP 5.4
  
• Community News: The Great Web Framework Shootout
  
• Dzone.com: A Free Amazon EC2 Cloud Server Based LAMP
  
• Dave Marshall's Blog: How I'm designing a RESTful(ish) web service
  
• Marcelo Gornstein's Blog: Dependency injection with Xml and Yaml in the Ding container
  
• Mattias Geniar's Blog: php_value vs php_admin_value and the use of php_flag explained
  
• Rob Allen's Blog: Overriding module configuration in ZF2
  
• PHPMaster.com: Understanding the Observer Pattern
  
• Rob Allen's Blog: What problem does dependency injection solve?