and now... SpacePuzzle!

Finding the right girl to spend my life with and deciding what to do for a living, for the rest of my life are the two most important questions I am struggling to find answers to. Sigh! I decided to outsource the first task to my parents. They seem to be very well connected to accomplish it properly without me interfering. But the second task, I am still struggling. If I outsource it to some IT company, it would be my doom!

            A year back, when I published my first novel, I decided to be an author. My friends told me I have undergone a complete shift in paradigm. I gave up coding entirely. When I thought things couldn’t get worse, I started this cycle thing. As if cycling hundreds of kilometers was not enough, I started collecting used cycles from those willing to donate in an attempt to rent them out. But the work involved was too much and the returns too less. Just when I thought I should go back to writing another book, it was the time to choose electives. I started searching for some course which will leave me free and I was suggested to take computer graphics by my well wishers.

The first one month I paid no attention in the class. It was just another stupid programming library that would torture young minds. But the first mini project had a drastic effect on me. OpenGL swept me off my feet. The mystery behind state-of-art games like Need For Speed, Halo etc started unraveling. I decided to create one. A game which does not require hundreds of people working on it forever but something which an individual could code and which would catch the eye. I was inspired by Trainyard, an iphone game and decided to create SpacePuzzle on similar lines. It took me two months to create a linux version, a windows version and an iPhone version. But I guess I would need around 6 more months to complete the final touches. That’s the irony as I realized when I wrote my first book too. Final touches are the most crucial and time consuming part of any product being developed to be published/released!

So well, hoping to get this into the iStore in 6 months time IF, and that is a big IF, my interests do not change overtime!

No to The Monotonous life...

Life in an IT company becomes monotonous. The bigger the company, the more monotonous it will be. Having worked at Microsoft, HCL and now ABB, I guess I am justified in saying so. At Microsoft, everything was ready the day I joined as an intern. I had my cubicle setup with LandLine, IP Phone and Desktop. Even a pair of brand new headphones were kept beside the keyboard and the cubicle was tagged with the name "Jayanth Gurijala".
                          HCL, smaller than Microsoft and was also less efficient. It took a week for my Desktop to be ready, four of us shared a LandLine and I had to get my personal headphones to keep myself awake. 
                        ABB, India, smaller than HCL, is a total mess! Life is least monotonous here. Employees share PCs, carry heavy CPU's around and assemble them, pull ethernet cables to connect to net, borrow hubs and switches and fight for keyboard and mice. Even after two weeks here, I am still a nomad. I roam around carrying a mouse searching for a place to sit. And what more, if I lift my head i can see three doors. The leftmost is the Men's toilet, rightmost is the women's toilet and the middle one is for the handicapped. Except for the middle door, the other two are always in action. I cannot even try to sleep because the doors keep banging open-close-open-close bah!
            So having nothing to do than keeping a tab on who uses the restroom the most number of times in an hour, I started googling. "Exotic Engineer Entrepreneur", I typed and for the first time went on till the 14th page! AAnnd....