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

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

• Matthew Weier O'Phinney: RESTful APIs with ZF2, Part 1
  
• Matthew Weier O'Phinney: RESTful APIs with ZF2, Part 2
  
• NetTuts.com: Setting Up A Staging Environment
  
• Joshua Thijssen: PHP5.5: Try/Catch/Finally
  
• 7PHP.com: Zend Certification Tips & Tricks, Hear It From Zend Certified Engineer Lorna Jane Mitchell
  
• The Coders Lexicon: My Love / Hate Relationship With PHP Traits
  
• PHPMaster.com: Avoid the Original MySQL Extension, Part 1
  
• thePHP.cc: Software Development Fluxx
  
• Kevin Schroeder: Generating secure cross site request forgery tokens (csrf)
  
• PHPMaster.com: Parsing XML With SimpleXML
  
• Gonzalo Ayuso: Scaling Silex applications
  
• DZone.com: External processes and PHP
  
• Rafael Dohms: Of Creating User Groups and Physics
  
• Andrew Podner: Lithium: Building Views Using Layouts
  
• Zumba Engineering Blog: Mongounit Project Open Sourced