I’m back from a good day at the inaugural MeshU conference and wanted to write down some notes and impressions about the sessions both for my own reference and for anyone else who was interested. I’ve never been to an event to like this so I don’t have any basis for comparison but I assume the fact that I’m interested in coming back next year is a good sign.

It was interesting to have to choose between three concurrent seminars, especially when they were grouped into career-oriented streams. Although I would have expected that the Developer stream would have held the most appeal, I ended up in two Management stream sessions and one Design one. I’m not sure what that means…

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You need a web project built…and you need to select a platform on which to base your new development project, and a partner to build it. So how do you do it? What are the key factors in the selection of the right platform? Is there a “right” platform? What are PHP, .NET, XML and all of these other acronyms anyway? These are all good questions and ones that need to be considered before making that all important decision.

We’ve always taken the stance that we should treat every project as a new challenge and base the decision on a number of factors including the timeline, budget, available resources, likely future direction and others. In some cases, clients rely on us to select the platform, in others, they choose the direction. In either case, the factors to decide are not always the same for both the developer and for the client.

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