I think I am a little behind here on the technology curve, but someone at Adobe showed me this the other day.  I heard that this project was in work, but I never actually took the time to go check it out myself.  So here it is, SearchMe.com a visual way to search the web.  Enjoy!  I am sure this technology will be bought by one of the big hitters eventually.  I love how they used Flex and repurposed the cover flow UI that Apple has so generously introduced in their products.

Reminds me of this statement:

The greatest revolutions come not by the discovery of something that was not known before.
They happen when someone radically changes something that was always there

In this example SearchMe took something like a search engine (already known) and totally redesigned its use, giving users a new experience to a common task such as searching for something on the web.  I like it, cant wait to see more experiences like this across the web. 

I was reading through some blogs this morning, some how I managed to read a July 2007 post on Sean Corfield's site nearly a year later... which sent me to Brian Rinald's blog and Matt Woodwards Blog about Design patterns in CF  (both are good reads, why I didnt see them before... who knows).  Than I started reading about some of Brian's post on his cf.objective() reviews, which led me to this post in particular "Flex: No Framworks Required". Anyway, most of what I do is in Flex these days with little CF writing since I use a kick@__ generator (cough... Illidium) for most of the backend logic for most of the backend logic, ColdSpring & I am looking into leveraging Transfer.

Now I have read one book so far on Design patterns, "Advanced Design Patterns for ActionScript" by Joey Lott & Danny Patterson.  This book discusses MVC, Command, Singleton, Proxy, Memento, Factory, Template and many others.  Brian's post mentions some other patterns one of which I am not familiar with:

• Observer (I use this to help Cairngorm notify my view)
• Registry
• Responder (I use this)

In Sean's comments some folks talk about a ProtoType pattern that I am not familiar with yet , he also mentions a book by "The Gang of Four" on design patterns another book that I may be adding to my collection soon. 

So with all the hype, and I say hype not to mock patterns (I do indeed believe in their use), but in our community patterns are being talked about alot... therefore at the moment its the "hype".  So with all the hype in patterns, is there a.....

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