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: Testing Like a Boss in Laravel: Models
  
• Brandon Savage: Best PHP Blogs To Follow
  
• Reddit.com: How do you manage many PHP projects? Lots of VMs?
  
• Michael Kimsal: Why do no almost no web frameworks come with any authentication/authorization?
  
• Andrew Podner: Closures, Lambdas, and Anonymous Functions
  
• Michael Nitschinger: A Journey on Avoiding Nulls in PHP
  
• Jason Fox: Use the Accept Header to Set Your Return Data With Zend Framework 2
  
• PHPMaster.com: Simplifying Test Data Generation with Faker
  
• PHPMaster.com: Working with Slim Middleware
  
• PHPClasses.org: 6 Reasons Why PHP is a Hobbit
  
• Andi Gutmans: Zend Server 6 is launched and available on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Marketplace
  
• Anthony Ferrara: Design Patterns - Programming With Anthony
  
• PHP Town Hall Podcast: Episode 4: PHP's Vision, Beards, and Cake
  
• Sameer Borate: Storing images into a database - resolving a contentious matter
  
• Fabien Potencier: Don't use PHP libraries with known security issues