That was the title I had given for my article that got published earlier this week on Devx. The published version is being called Converting Your Java App into a Windows Service. The editor might have felt marriage a bit of an overstatement for a straight forward integration;) Nevertheless I have tried to demystify what I call the unholy marriage. Yet the prerequisite is that the reader is aware of Win32 API, multi-threading, C/C++ and JNI concepts.
Finally I called it quits to my high paying (it's relative) and low performing (again it's relative) software job. "Where are you landing?" "What is your next destination?" My concerned friends and colleagues asked. I just said "I have not decided". The answer was not convincing enough and some of them even felt I was being secretive. So I started coming up with answers on the fly. Initially I said I was gonna be a freelance consultant. Later I contradicted myself saying I will go after VC funding. That just turned me into a budding entrepreneur. After sometime I took a middle path saying I will do consulting for sometime and then devote all my time and energies to start a startup. I might have been vaguer at times "Right now I am flying and when I land somewhere, I will let you all know" ; "There is no destination I got to make one". None of those statements were completely untrue.
Fortunately everybody has been very encouraging. That comes as a pleasant surprise to me. In fact I refined my plans based on their inputs Everybody except my mom seemed to think I have a chance and I might even pull it off. How do I explain mom that registered number of users translates to $$$$$ and you don't need a business plan, even a million pixels will do. The news that YouTube was bought over for $1.65B dollars by a smart company like Google is more than encouraging.
The picture might seem obvious to many. But you just don't seem to get it. You must then understand that a vague picture is equivalent to thousand vaguest words!
I bought myself the latest edition of Crossing the Chasm, one of the most hyped techno marketing books that every one claims to have read. Now, I can also say so. After reading a chapter or so I zzzzzzzed off.. now the book is with my friend.
"It is the cartoon that I improvised on". It makes me wonder how could a picture made for the story "Ass and Driver" suit so perfectly in this context. The Google image search is really making me notorious:( Before I get sued for my "REUSE" tendencies. I badly need a cartoonist. Any one out there? PLS HELP ME!!
