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

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

• CodeHeaps.com: Creating a Blog Using Laravel 4 (Series)
  
• Imagine Easy: Pushing the limits of metaprogramming in PHP: aspect oriented design
  
• Community News: PuPHPet Adds Support for HHVM
  
• Pádraic Brady: Composer: Downloading Random Code Is Not A Security Vulnerability?
  
• Community News: Latest PEAR Releases for 02.17.2014
  
• PHPClasses.org: Lately in PHP Podcast #44 - "The Debate About All PHP Frameworks that Suck"
  
• Inviqa techPortal: Speedy Sites: Nginx and PHP
  
• SitePoint PHP Blog: Piping Emails to a Laravel Application
  
• SitePoint PHP Blog: Getting Started with Laravel on Nitrous.io
  
• SitePoint PHP Blog: A Look at Hack, the PHP Replacement in HHVM
  
• Allan MacGregor: Magento and HHVM
  
• ServerGrove Blog: Symfony2 components overview: Config
  
• Nils Adermann: Composer: Replace, Conflict & Forks Explained
  
• Laravel.IO Podcast: Episode 10 with Taylor Otwell, JesseOBrien, and Chris Fidao
  
• Community News: Latest PECL Releases for 02.18.2014