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: Building Web Applications from Scratch with Laravel
  
• NetTuts.com: Creating a Flat-File Blog Engine Using Slim
  
• Ole Markus With's Blog: Experimenting with uWSGI and its PHP plugin
  
• PHP-Tip-a-Day: PHP Tutorial: King Floyd and the Seventeen Princes - A Tale of the Observer Pattern
  
• Pádraic Brady's Blog: Automatic Output Escaping In PHP & The Real Future Of Preventing XSS
  
• Mike Purcell's Blog: CentOS - PHP - Install Memcached (with a d) Stack
  
• Robert Basic's Blog: Using the new autoloaders from Zend Framework 1.12
  
• Henry Hayes' Blog: Zend Framework UserAgent Browscap Implementation
  
• Mayflower Blog: Software Architecture Decisions - How to do it Wrong the Hard & Easy Way
  
• PHPMaster.com: Web Routing in PHP with Aura.Router
  
• Michael Nitschinger's Blog: Using Couchbase as a flexible session store
  
• PHPMaster.com: Multi-Factor Authentication with PHP and Twilio
  
• Gonzalo Ayuso's Blog: Building a simple SQL wrapper with PHP. Part 2.
  
• Design Aeon: Check Dead Links From Database Using PHP CURL
  
• PHPMaster.com: An Introduction to Dependency Injection, Service Locators & Factories (Part 1)