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

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

• Reddit.com: What are the must see talks/tutorials about php?
  
• Flyn San: Creating a Basic ToDo Application With Laravel 4 (Tutorial Series)
  
• PHP.net: Multiple Releases - PHP 5.4.23, 5.3.28 and 5.5.7
  
• Paul Jones: Book Announcement: Modernizing Legacy Applications in PHP
  
• Ulf Wendel: PHP Memcache access to MySQL 5.7, faster? Redis?
  
• HipHop Blog: Faster and Cheaper: The Evolution of the hhvm JIT
  
• 7PHP.com: Slim PHP Micro Framework Through The Lens Of Jeremy Kendall
  
• Christian Weiske: PHP 5.6: Large file upload support
  
• SitePoint PHP Blog: Fun with Array Interfaces
  
• PHPClasses.org: Speedup Your Web Deployments Using Composer to Install PHP Classes Packages
  
• NetTuts.com: Statamic 101
  
• Site News: Blast from the Past - One Year Ago in PHP
  
• SitePoint PHP Blog: Dart and PHP: A Legacy Animal Guess Game
  
• Community News: Packagist Latest Releases for 12.08.2013
  
• Kevin Schroeder: (Starting) Using Dependency Injection in Magento 2