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

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

• James Fuller: Use @dataProvider to reduce duplication and improve the maintainability of your tests
  
• SitePoint PHP Blog: Sending Confirmation Emails with Phalcon and Swift
  
• Inviqa techPortal: Manage Project Dependencies with Bower and Composer
  
• Allan MacGregor: Design Patterns in PHP: Singletons
  
• Matthew Turland: How to be a Great Developer
  
• NetTuts.com: SOLID: Part 3 - Liskov Substitution & Interface Segregation Principles
  
• SitePoint PHP Blog: HHVM vs Zend Engine in PHP 6
  
• NetTuts.com: Setting Up a Local Mirror for Composer Packages With Satis
  
• Dutch Web Alliance: The definitive remote debug and unittest with PHPStorm guide: part 7
  
• SitePoint PHP Blog: Arbitrary Precision and Big Numbers in PHP
  
• Lorna Mitchell: GitHub-Powered Changelog Scripts
  
• PHP Town Hall: Episode 18: PHPDBG, HHVM and Internals
  
• php[architect]: January 2014 Issue Released - How to Be a Better Developer
  
• Community News: Packagist Latest Releases for 01.29.2014
  
• Matt Frost: Getting Talks Selected