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

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

• NetTuts.com: Sending Emails With Laravel 4 & Gmail
  
• Codeception.com: Testing Emails in PHP. Part 1: PHPUnit
  
• Voices of the ElePHPant: It's the Booze Talking #5 - PHP Community...again (Part #2)
  
• SitePoint PHP Blog: Build Virtual Machines Easily With PuPHPet
  
• JetBrains.com: Just-In-Time debugging and PHP Exception Breakpoints with PhpStorm and Xdebug
  
• Site News: Popular Posts for the Week of 12.20.2013
  
• Paul Jones: Quicker, Easier, More Seductive: How To Tell A DI Container From A Service Locator
  
• Alex Bilbie: Using Vagrant and Ansible for distributing educational course virtual machines
  
• Community News: Latest PEAR Releases for 12.16.2013
  
• HHVM Blog: FasterCGI with HHVM
  
• NetTuts.com: SOLID: Part 1 - The Single Responsibility Principle
  
• Site News: Blast from the Past - One Year Ago in PHP
  
• Custom Scripts Blog: Dynamic layouts in Twig
  
• PHPClasses.org: Lately in PHP podcast episode 42 - New PHP 5.6 Developments
  
• Lukas Smith: The future of PHP .. at a distance