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Several months ago I got an email from Nathan Smith.  I had met him at BibleTech and he wanted to know if I was interested in working with someone he knew on a PHP project.  Being ambitious I said sure.

Enter Matthew Smith

Matthew Smith is the brain child of Pattern Tap.  We've only known each other through talking on the phone.  What I know I love.  First off, he's a dear brother in the Lord who love the Lord Jesus.  That's an awesome first point.  Secondly, we share a lot of similar passions about web design and development.  These two factors make for great collaborative partnership even though we're separated by hundreds of miles.

The Goal: Pattern Tap

Matthew came up with the idea of having a place where design ideas could be categorized and sorted.  He needed me to make it happen.  Well, it happened!  Yesterday, at about 3 pm Pattern Tap was released into the wild (come what may). 

If you don't know what Pattern Tap is, visit the site.  You'll soon discover and interface design library that isn't just "thrown together", but rather, selected and catalog.  It takes me back to my days in grad school when researchers rolled their eyes at the Internet.  If you want to research, you knew you couldn't just plug your research topic into Google.  You had to go to the librarian and they would point you to where the really good resources were. That's Pattern Tap.  Matthew Smith and a band of fellow designers are your librarians cataloging the "good stuff" on the web.