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

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

• Semaphoreapp.com: Continuous Integration & Deployment of PHP applications from GitHub to Heroku
  
• SitePoint PHP Blog: 6 Reasons to Move to Laravel Homestead
  
• Mathias Verraes: When to Use Static Methods
  
• Master Zend Framework: Using the ClassMap Autoloader for Better Performance
  
• Matthias Noback: Symfony2: How to create framework independent controllers?
  
• Three Devs & A Maybe Podcast: The PHP-FIG/RFC, CodeIgniter 3 and PyroCMS with Phil Sturgeon
  
• Community News: Latest PECL Releases for 06.17.2014
  
• Site News: Popular Posts for the Week of 06.20.2014
  
• Reddit.com: What exactly is 'model' in MVC?
  
• Grant Lovell: Why PHP doesn't suck anymore
  
• Site News: Blast from the Past - One Year Ago in PHP
  
• Symfony Blog: Making the Symfony Experience *Exceptional*
  
• Community News: Packagist Latest Releases for 06.16.2014
  
• Matthias Noback: Symfony2: Framework independent controllers parts 2 & 3
  
• The Code of a Ninja: Salt, Hash and Store Passwords Securely with Phpass