Crash Dump Analysis

Today Citrix officially joined the club of public symbol server companies! Please refer to the following article for details:

How to Use the Citrix Symbol Server to Obtain Debug Symbols

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Crash dump analysis “does not consist merely in” peeking” the memory and enlightening the understanding. Its main business should be to direct the” Customer.

Joseph Joubert, Pensées

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Here you can find the draft TOC for the forthcoming book “DebugWare: The Art and Craft of Writing Troubleshooting Tools”:

Table of Contents

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“An excellent precept for” programmers: “have a clear idea of all the” functions “and expressions you need, and you will find them.”

Ximénès Doudan, Pensées et fragments suivis des révolutions du goût

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“The art of not” coding “is extremely important. It consists in our not taking up whatever happens to be occupying the” management “public at the time.”

Arthur Schopenhauer, Parerga and Paralipomena: On Reading and Books

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Finally Dr. Debugalov adventures are going to be imprinted with bugs inside. This full-color book features never published before cartoons and a few surprises. It sets a new standard for entertainment in software engineering.

• Title: Dumps, Bugs and Debugging Forensics: The Adventures of Dr. Debugalov
• Author: Narasimha Vedala
• Editor: Dmitry Vostokov
• Publisher: Opentask (1 December 2008)
• Language: English
• Product Dimensions: 21.6 x 14.0
• ISBN-13: 978-1-906717-25-4
• Paperback: 64 pages

The cover was designed by Narasimha Vedala.

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“A” code “never — well, hardly ever — shakes off its” legacy “and its formation. In spite of all changes in and extensions of and additions to its” base “, and indeed rather pervading and governing these, there will still persist the old” code.

John Langshaw Austin, Philosophical Papers: A Plea For Excuses

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Opcodes “- so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a” manual “, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.”

Nathaniel Hawthorne, American Notebooks

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APIs “govern the world.”

John Selden, Table Talk

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New cartoon from Narasimha Vedala (click on it to enlarge):

Revolution and carnage imminent at Dr. Debugalov’s bug farm…

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