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

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

• Gary Hockin's Blog: Zend Framework 2 and a Restful Application
  
• Jason Hinkle's Blog: Build a Backbone.js Application with PHP
  
• PHP-A-Day Blog: Commentary: Why Do People Hate PHP?
  
• Rob Allen's Blog: Zend Framework 2 beta 4 released
  
• PHPMaster.com: Input Validation Using Filter Functions
  
• PHP Tip-a-Day: PHP Tutorial: Convoluted Code - Combining Ternary Operators and Anonymous Functions
  
• Phil Sturgeon's Blog: CodeIgniter Conference 2012 SF
  
• VG Tech Blog: Lazy Loading Resources with Zend Framework Bootstrap
  
• Chris Hartjes' Blog: Tricorder: A Testing Helper for PHP
  
• Project: Codeception Introduces ZombieJs and Selenium2 Support
  
• Brian Moon's Blog: PHP Coding Standards
  
• WebSpeaks.in: Search Google Plus Profiles using PHP and Google Plus API
  
• Smashing Magazine: Replicating MySQL AES Encryption Methods With PHP
  
• Kevin Schroeder's Blog: 10 reasons to use PHP
  
• Reddit.com: Symfony2... to Twig or not to Twig...