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Tuesday, November 25th, 2008
As one of the new initiatives for the Year of Debugging DumpAnalysis Portal will publish bimonthly full color 16 page publication called:
Debugged! MZ/PE: MagaZine for/from Practicing Engineers
The only serial publication dedicated entirely to Windows® debugging
The first issue is planned for March, 2009 and will have ISBN-13: 978-1-906717-38-4. If it goes well I’m planning to have ISSN number assigned to it too. More details will be announced soon.
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Tuesday, November 25th, 2008
I’m pleased to announce that OpenTask has submitted the book Dumps, Bugs and Debugging Forensics: The Adventures of Dr. Debugalov for printing and here is the link to TOC:
Table of Contents
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Monday, November 24th, 2008
I was thinking about the universal character of debugging for quite some time and finally the following bugtation provided an inspiration for a new book title to be published during the Year of Debugging:
Title: Breaking the Bug: Debugging as a Natural Phenomenon
ISBN-13: 978-1906717377
More product details will be announced later.
Actually I believe in the mystical nature of various debugging numbers and sequences. For example, the ISBN number of this book ends in 377 which is the octal base equivalent of 0n255 or 0xFF.
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Wednesday, October 22nd, 2008
Just realized that yesterday I wrote 100th crash dump analysis pattern. Today I’m going to write 101st. Just to remind that the fully classified color catalog of them is planned to be published:
Forthcoming CDAP Encyclopedia
More details will be announced closer to that date.
- Dmitry Vostokov @ DumpAnalysis.org -
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Saturday, October 18th, 2008
Paperback edition of Memory Dump Analysis Anthology, Volume 2 is finally available on Amazon
and Barnes & Noble. Search Inside is also available on Amazon. In addition, I updated the list of recommended books:
Listmania! Crash Dump Analysis and Debugging
Hardcover edition will be available on Amazon and B&N in 2-3 weeks.
- Dmitry Vostokov @ DumpAnalysis.org -
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Tuesday, October 14th, 2008
“On Mind-Body problem and Afterlife: if Mind is merely a computation then what is left is a memory dump in the Body”.
Dmitry Vostokov
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Tuesday, October 7th, 2008
Reminiscence on a memory dump as an integer:
“The trouble with” memory dumps “is that we have examined only the very small ones. Maybe all the exciting stuff happens at really big” memory dumps, “ones we can’t even begin to think about in any very definite way. So maybe all the action is really inaccessible and we’re just fiddling around. Our brains have evolved to get us out of the rain, find where the berries are, and keep us from getting killed. Our brains did not evolve to help us grasp really large” memory dumps “or to look at things in a hundred thousand” memory locations.
Ronald Lewis Graham, quoted in “Computers, Pattern, Chaos and Beauty” by Clifford A. Pickover
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Friday, October 3rd, 2008
“Everything is memory dump.”
I’m very excited to announce that Volume 2 is available in paperback, hardcover and digital editions:
Memory Dump Analysis Anthology, Volume 2
In one or two weeks paperback edition should also appear on Amazon and other bookstores. Amazon hardcover edition is planned to be available by the end of October.
I’m often asked when Volume 3 is available and I currently plan to release it in October - November, 2009. In the mean time I’m planning to concentrate on other publishing projects.
- Dmitry Vostokov @ DumpAnalysis.org -
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Thursday, October 2nd, 2008
Out of 61,500,000 Google hits for “Everything is” X I couldn’t find X == memory dump so I presume this quotation is also traced to me
“Everything is memory dump.”
Dmitry Vostokov
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