2012 - What A Year

Well, 2012 is wrapping up. What a year it has been! Here's a partial recap of some of the things that happened to me and that I did this year:

Top 5 Blog Posts (By Page View):

1. PHP Sucks, But I Like It
2. The True Problem With PHP
3. Anatomy Of An Attack: How I Hacked StackOverflow
4. OOP vs Procedural Code
5. The Secure Programmer's Pledge

Bottom 5 Blog Posts (By Page View):

1. Upcoming Presentations - Fall 2012
2. The True Power of Open Source
3. The Grass Is Always Browner
4. Programming With Anthony - Responsive Web Design
5. Programming With Anthony - Boolean Logic

Top 5 Blog Post Referring Sites:

1. Reddit
2. Hacker News
3. Habrahabr.ru
4. PHP Developer
5. DZone

Presentations Given:

1. Don't Be STUPID, GRASP SOLID - NYPHP
2. Password Hashing in PHP - PHPNW
3. Cryptography For The Average Developer - True North PHP
4. Don't Be STUPID, GRASP SOLID - True North PHP
5. Cryptography For The Average Developer - PHP Master Series vol 1

Conferences Attended:

1. North East PHP
2. PHP North West
3. True North PHP
4. PHP Master Series vol 1

Videos:

1. Password Hashing in PHP - PHPNW
2. Programming With Anthony - Paradigm Soup
3. Programming With Anthony - References in PHP
4. Programming With Anthony - Encryption
5. Programming With Anthony - Prepared Statements
6. Programming With Anthony - Boolean Logic
7. Programming With Anthony - Responsive Web Design
8. BrainFuck Implementation in PHP

New GitHub Repositories (notable):

1. Programming With Anthony Scripts
2. BrainFuck Implementation in PHP
3. Password Compatibility Library
4. PasswordLib
5. PHPPHP - PHP Implementation in PHP

PHP RFCs:

1. Implemented:A Simplified Password Hashing
2. Implemented:A PBKDF2 Hash Function
3. Draft: Scalar Type Hinting (with casts)
4. Draft: Scalar Type Casting Magic Methods
5. Withdrawn: Parameter Type Casting Hints

Some Interesting Numbers (Blog):

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