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

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

• SitePoint PHP Blog: Debugging with Xdebug and Sublime Text 3
  
• Mastering Zend Framework: Gary Hockin's Maximising Zend Framework 2 Performance Talk (Review)
  
• NetTuts.com: Symfony 2: The Basics
  
• VG Tech: Swagger Docs in ZF2 with Examples - Part 1: Setup and Annotations
  
• IT World: Does relying on an IDE for development make you a bad programmer?
  
• Johannes Schlüter: On rumors of "PHP dropping MySQL"
  
• Community News: Latest PECL Releases for 02.25.2014
  
• SitePoint PHP Blog: Data Fixtures in Symfony2
  
• Community News: Latest PEAR Releases for 02.24.2014
  
• SitePoint PHP Blog: Why Choose PHP Over Alternatives?
  
• HHVM Blog: Implementing MySQLi
  
• PHP Town Hall Podcast: Episode 19: Episode 19: Jeffrey Way, Laracasts and BDFLs
  
• HHVM Blog: HHVM: The Next Six Months
  
• Community News: Packagist Latest Releases for 02.28.2014
  
• Pantheon Blog: Please License Your Code