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

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

• Symfony Blog: Symfony Website Updates
  
• Web & PHP Magazine: October 2013 Issue - "In the Key of Symfony2"
  
• Reddit.com: Frameworks, is the learning curve too steep
  
• Reddit.com: Composer still susceptible to remote code execution via MITM
  
• Kevin Schroeder: More - The file system is slow
  
• NetTuts.com: Functional Programming in PHP
  
• SitePoint PHP Blog: Creating a Subscription-Based Website with Laravel and Recurly, Part 2
  
• Inviqa techPortal: Profiling PHP Applications with XHGui
  
• Chris Jones: DTrace PHP Using Oracle Linux 'playground' Pre-Built Packages
  
• Using Traits for Code Reuse in Zend Framework 2
  
• Engine Yard: Improving Your Local Tech Group
  
• Davey Shafik: Everything You Need to Know About OpCode Caches
  
• SitePoint PHP Blog: Collection Classes in PHP
  
• Community News: Latest PEAR Releases for 09.30.2013
  
• ServerGrove Blog: Symfony2 components overview: HttpKernel