Many of us who developed the habit of writing functions and procedural code (blame it on the high-school C courses) with PHP4 will need to switch to the OOP paradigm with PHP5. For me, its just another way to organize the same functions and procedures. Lets try to build a url shortener using something similar to the Factory pattern.(Read More...)

Captain's Log: Earthdate-01-15-2010-something-something-alpha: "After several months of coding and fiddling with an enterprise-level framework, the application is finally ready and successfully deployed. This is the first blog article on Bitsofparag. Over and out"(Read More...)