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

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

• In Coding: Laravel 4 Authentication A Comprehensive Tutorial
  
• NetTuts.com: Building a CodeIgniter Web Application From Scratch - Part 1
  
• Reddit.com: PSR-6 Caching Interface and PSR-5 PHPDoc enter Draft status
  
• DesignShack.com: How to Build a Dynamic Imgur Upload App Using jQuery & PHP
  
• SitePoint PHP Blog: Handle Incoming Email with SendGrid
  
• Nomad PHP: November 2013 - Ed Finkler, "More Code, More Problems"
  
• NetTuts.com: Xdebug - Professional PHP Debugging
  
• Community News: Latest PECL Releases for 08.27.2013
  
• Phil Sturgeon: CurlFile and the Facebook SDK in PHP 5.5
  
• Fortrabbit.com: Integrating Codeship with Fortrabbit
  
• VG Tech: Inheriting Configuration in Zend Framework 2 Applications
  
• Acquia Blog: A Look at PHP's Continuing Evolution
  
• ServerGrove.com: New features of PHP 5.5
  
• SitePoint PHP Blog: Coding a Lorem Ipsum Alternative
  
• Lukas Smith: __toString() or not __toString()?