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

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

• BinaryTides.com: Setup Nginx + php-FPM + apc + MariaDB on Debian 7 - The perfect LEMP server
  
• Gonzalo Ayuso: Sending Android Push Notifications from PHP to phonegap applications
  
• Reddit.com: Multithreading in PHP with pthreads
  
• J-P Stacy: Neither developers nor the language are what's wrong with PHP
  
• Web & PHP Magazine: August 2013 Issue - "Keeping it Lean"
  
• Adam Culp: XHProf PHP Profiling
  
• JavaWorld.com: Facebook invents a PHP virtual machine
  
• Smartbridge.com: Rapid Website Development: The Case for LAMP and WordPress (Part 1)
  
• Google Developer Blog: Getting started with Twilio on Google App Engine for PHP
  
• Site News: Popular Posts for the Week of 08.09.2013
  
• Community News: Latest PECL Releases for 08.06.2013
  
• PHPMaster.com: Generators in PHP
  
• Community News: phpDocumentor2 Celebrates their (Stable) Version 2.0 Release
  
• PHPMaster.com: Using cURL for Remote Requests
  
• Reddit.com: Is there anything wrong with using functions?