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

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

• Script-Tutorials.com: Functional Programming - How to Write Functional Code in PHP
  
• PHP.net: PHP 5.4.15 and PHP 5.3.25 released!
  
• PHPMaster.com: Goodbye CodeIgniter, Hello Laravel
  
• PHPMaster.com: Maven and PHP
  
• 7PHP.com: Know Thy PHP Conference Know The Dutch PHP Conference (DPC) & The Dutch Mobile Conference
  
• NetTuts.com: 10 Tips for Learning a New Technology
  
• 7PHP.com: Win (TWO) Free Tickets To Hear Rob Allen Introduce Zend Framework 2 (Nomad PHP)
  
• Web & PHP Magazine: May 2013 Issue - "Time Travel"
  
• PHP.net: PHP 5.5.0RC1 is available
  
• Christopher Martinez: Static code analysis tools for PHP
  
• PHPMaster.com: MongoDB Indexing, Part 1
  
• Lukas Smith: What is needed to REST in Symfony2
  
• Site News: Popular Posts for the Week of 05.10.2013
  
• Phil Sturgeon: Composer and PSR-0: Friends, Not Relatives
  
• PHPClasses.org: Lately in PHP, Episode 35 - Better Documentation for PHP internals