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I am a lecturer on an Applied Software Engineering course, teaching with many people with different views on what industry wants in terms of skills.

We can all agree that basic web development skills (front end and back end) are pretty core, as well as some concept of mobile development. What about things like enterprise programming (Java EE).

The module list is here but I have my doubts on the use of some of these and think the time can be better spent. What are your thoughts, as professionals?

http://courses.cardiff.ac.uk/undergraduate/course/detail/4JVD.html

So, I am not in the job market having just started a job with a new startup after completing my PhD in Wireless Sensor Networks from Cardiff University.

However, I am a 25 year old computer scientist with a love of sensors, tracking, quantified self and the like. However, I have worked in both academia and industry but never seem to stick a job out for more than 6 months at a time (aside from the PhD). I seem to get bored/complacent easily and my mind makes me want to move on. Until recently, I blamed this on the jobs (poor dev team, no freedom for research, not adaptive, not learning etc), but someone made the obvious point, 'it is probably you' a couple weeks back and now I am curious.

I am just doing the corrections for my thesis and I plan to continue work with this London startup for as long as my brain allows but I thought you guys would know where one could go to hash out all the things they look for and have someone tell them an area/company/country etc. General career peeps do not cut it.

The PhD was awesome in that it allowed learning, development, teaching, flexibility but never a time to be lazy. But academia is not a stable career choice, with short contracts and the like.

I apologise that this seems like a brain dump but I was hoping some people here could help?

Thanks!

Hello all, I am an avid note taker and impulse buyer, and seeing the release of the BoogieBoard Sync (an LCD eWriter with a syncing option) has me salivating. But reviews on the contrast are putting me off, I was wondering if anyone has used one (or something similar) and could offer up some feedback?

Thanks!