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

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

• NetTuts.com: PHP Database Access: Are You Doing It Correctly?
  
• Michael Nitschinger's Blog: Handling JSON like a boss in PHP
  
• NetTuts.com: Advanced CodeIgniter Techniques and Tricks
  
• Paul Jones' Blog: PHP-FIG: PSR 1 and 2 Accepted
  
• Agile Toolkit Blog: Which PHP Framework is the Fastest?
  
• Michael Dowling's Blog: Cron Expression Parsing in PHP
  
• PHPMaster.com: PHP DOM: Working with XML
  
• PerishablePress.com: Encoding & Decoding PHP Code
  
• Joshua Thijssen's Blog: Using augeas (in PHP)
  
• LineshJose.com: How To: Create A Simple CSS Compressor Using PHP
  
• PHPMaster.com: Let's Talk: Efficient Communication for PHP and Android, Part 2
  
• Sean Coates' Blog: Deploy on push (from GitHub)
  
• Mike Purcell's Blog: PHPUnit - Constant Already Defined - -process-isolation
  
• NetTuts.com: How to Process Credit Cards with PayPal Payments Pro Using PHP
  
• Henri Bergius' Blog: Running Symfony CMF with Midgard2