The other day, Sean Corfield pointed to a Design Patterns site that contained listings for several of the more popular design patterns. Code samples for C# were provided for most of the patterns. Sean closed his blog entry by asking if the CF commnunity might be up to the challenge of creating a similar site for design patterns in ColdFusion MX.

After a discussion with Brendan O'Hara, the author of the monthly Design Patterns column in the ColdFusion Developer's Journal, we decided that this would be an excellent idea. I've offered to host the content as part of the www.CFCZone.org (this ties in nicely with the site as most design patterns are implemented using CFCs). Brendan's offered to contribute some of the initial content based on the articles he's written so far.

What I'd like to propose next is an open call to the ColdFusion community to contribute as well. What is it we are looking for? Well, for starters, we need to define how we want to structure the offering. Obviously, we don't want to copy the same format as the Data & Object Factory site. We need to come up with an original way of presenting the design patterns in a way that makes sense for ColdFusion. The second thing we need is for developers with an understanding of design patterns to author the actual content. Brendan's offered to start things off, but we'll need the support and talent of several developers if this is going to work.

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