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

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

• Mashable.com: 10 Programming Languages You Should Learn in 2014
  
• David Makin: Creating a simple REST application with Silex part 2
  
• Padraic Brady: Zephir Language: Write PHP Extensions The Easy Way (Without C) - Part 1: Introduction
  
• Geshan Manandhar: 5 PHP development improvements rediscovered in 2013
  
• VG Tech: Generating Code Coverage of Behat Tests
  
• Community News: php[tek] Conference Schedule Announced
  
• PHPBuilder.com: What is PHP-FIG and What are They Doing?
  
• MaltBlue.com: 3 Simple Ideas for Improving Zend Framework Performance
  
• Paul Jones: Framework Tradeoffs For Beginners: Product Creation vs Program Maintenance
  
• Evert Pot: jCard is now a thing
  
• Community News: Latest PEAR Releases for 01.20.2014
  
• NetTuts.com: SOLID: Part 2 - The Open/Closed Principle
  
• Allan MacGregor: Design Patterns in PHP: Using Factories
  
• SitePoint PHP Blog: Web Performance Tricks - Beyond the Basics
  
• PHPClasses.org: Lately in PHP Podcast #43 - "Is Facebook HHVM going to Replace Zend Engine in PHP6"