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

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

• PHP.net: PHP 5.5.9 is ready for download
  
• SitePoint PHP Blog: PHP The Right Way: The Book
  
• SitePoint Programming Blog: What is the Best Programming Language to Learn in 2014?
  
• PHPClasses.org: 4 Reasons Why All PHP Frameworks Suck?
  
• Gonzalo Ayuso: Integrating WebSockets with PHP applications. Silex and socket.io playing together.
  
• Voices of the ElePHPant: It's the Booze Talking #5: Core Developers
  
• Reddit.com: Any ideas on what "MVC agnostic" PHP code is?
  
• New Media Campaigns: An Interview With the Founder of the Slim Framework for PHP
  
• Suresh Ariya: Implement Flash Messages using Session in PHP (Part 1 & 2)
  
• Site News: Popular Posts for the Week of 02.07.2014
  
• CodeGeekz: Cropping Images in PHP Based on their Entropy
  
• Community News: Latest PECL Releases for 02.04.2014
  
• Community News: Latest PEAR Releases for 02.03.2014
  
• Andreas Gohr: Docker PHP Farm
  
• Community News: Packagist Latest Releases for 02.06.2014