[LA.pm] contrasting London and LA

[Todd Cranston-Cuebas]

David,

Wanted to point out that while Ticketmaster and Citysearch are both IAC
companies (owned by InterActiveCorp), the relationship really isn't
Citysearch == Ticketmaster. At one point, that was much closer to being
true, but for many years now, the two companies act independently in just
about every way short of certain cross-promotion agreements. In fact, it is
my understanding that Citysearch is now doing more Java development, but
honestly, I'd need someone from that team to clarify the situation.

In terms of market forces, I think that there are a number of issues worth
discussing. I hope that the local demand for perl engineers is enough to
cause the much needed market shift (i.e., more people in the States learning
perl on a very deep level). I'm concerned that other forces may counteract
this adjustment including the fact that schools in the States push Java,
python is becoming more popular as a general purpose scripting language, and
other languages and frameworks (e.g., Ruby on Rails) are taking up the "I
want to build a simple web site" position.

As far as engineers in the UK go, the visa issues making things tough, but
when the next allotment of visas are available next year (We can apply in
April, 07), I'd love to talk to UK engineers!

Todd
tcc at ticketmaster.com

> -----Original Message-----
> From: losangeles-pm-bounces+tcc=ticketmaster.com at pm.org 
> [mailto:losangeles-pm-bounces+tcc=ticketmaster.com at pm.org] On 
> Behalf Of David Pisoni
> Sent: Saturday, August 12, 2006 10:15 AM
> To: Nicholas Clark
> Cc: losangeles-pm at pm.org
> Subject: Re: [LA.pm] contrasting London and LA
> 
> Well, Citysearch == Ticketmaster (and many other brands.)  
> Valueclick seems to be as aggressive as the aforementioned 
> companies as well, though they're a bit further afield.
> 
> What's wrong with the world? Lots of things, though I'm not 
> sure this issue qualifies as something "wrong with the 
> world."  Chock it up to the peculiarity of market forces?  
> That's all I got.
> 
> David
> 
> On Aug 12, 2006, at 07.24 , Nicholas Clark wrote:
> 
> > There's some irony here, I feel. In LA we have (at least) 3 
> big money- 
> > making mod_perl using companies trying to recruit solid 
> Perl people to 
> > write in depth Perl code, and finding that they're in short supply 
> > locally.
> >
> > (Shopzilla, Ticketmaster, Oversee.net. Not sure if Citysearch are 
> > currently recruiting, not aware if I've missed any other 
> firms. If so, 
> > sorry)
> >
> > Yet in London it seems that there are more good people than 
> good jobs 
> > to stretch them:
> >
> > http://london.pm.org/pipermail/london.pm/Week-of-
> > Mon-20060731/003436.html
> > thread spills into the next week
> > http://london.pm.org/pipermail/london.pm/Week-of-Mon-20060807/
> > thread.html
> >
> > (and I've had feedback that Paris and Amsterdam are roughly similar)
> >
> > What's wrong with the world?
> >
> > Nicholas Clark
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