Crash Dump Analysis

I recently started posting book reviews on Amazon and re-posting them from my blogs. Previously I didn’t do that because I thought that Amazon acquired exclusive rights for submitted reviews but I wanted to include my selected reviews in my own books and on my own websites. Recently I read its small print and found that Amazon rights are non-exclusive. Of course, I take advantage and promote my blogs in book reviews that have the following form:

Review text …

Thanks,
Dmitry Vostokov
Founder of …
[Editor-in-Chief of …]

Software engineering book reviews point to DumpAnalysis Portal and Software Generalist blog, science, history and general non-fiction book reviews point to Literate Scientist blog, management book reviews point to Management Bits and Tips blog. I found already that people Google these blogs to find out who’s that guy and the number of visitors to my other blogs has doubled.

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Following the success of Windows Debugging: Practical Foundations the following title will be published this summer:

Windows Device Drivers: Practical Foundations (ISBN: 978-0955832840)

Table of contents will be posted later.

Other planned titles:

X64 Windows Debugging: Practical Foundations (ISBN: 978-19067171568) 

Windows Multithreading: Practical Foundations (ISBN: 978-1906717742)

 Like Windows Debugging book, these forthcoming titles are based on my seminars. 

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This is the main topic of the forthcoming next issue of Debugged MZ/PE magazine. The most close term is called “fault injection” but I rediscovered it as a “software defect construction”, “software defect simulation” or “software defect modeling”. The latter term is also used to refer to construction of mathematical models related to software product quality and corresponding statistics but “modeling software defects” seems appropriate subtitle for the magazine front cover picture… Software defect construction is more general term than fault injection. The latter is used for testing but we want to simulate bugs and abnormal system conditions to study debugging and memory dump analysis techniques or to build reproduction environments. I actually recently found and bought the used copy of this book:

Software Fault Injection: Inoculating Programs Against Errors

and plan to write my own book with the following working title later:

Software Defect Construction: Simulation and Modeling of Software Bugs (ISBN: 978-1906717759)

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I was delighted to know that my books in paperback editions will be available in minutes via Espresso Book Machine: Source. You can read more about this ATM book machine from its inventor:

http://www.ondemandbooks.com/home.htm

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DumpAnalysis.org has changed its book store to Amazon aStore to incorporate all published OpenTask books, magazines and notebooks:

Here is the direct link:

Dump Analysis Portal Store

The screenshot:

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Instead of publishing another philosophical treatise ”On …”, OpenTask, iterative and incremental publisher, plans to release my collection of bugtations in somewhat extended version by the end of this summer:  

On Debugging: Bugtations and Other Humorous Quotations (ISBN: 978-1906717285)

The book also includes short biographical notes, commentaries and relevant explanations. Hope you would enjoy it. 

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This is a forthcoming book to be released next year after we finally publish DebugWare book by the end of this summer:

Software Tracing and Logging: Architecture, Design, Implementation and Analysis Patterns (ISBN: 978-1906717728)

I have already begun working on it in the background. The scope of DebugWare book is too wide to cover tracing and logging in great detail not to mention the very important subject of software trace analysis.

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Last weekend I came across this book in a local bookshop:

Patterns Of The Earth

I immediately recalled all beautiful patterns I have seen and collected from visualized computer memory maps. I plan to include many images in a full-color book this summer:

Patterns of Computer Memory (ISBN: 978-1906717711)

This book should be essential for creative computer engineers and inquiring debugging minds!

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OpenTask, iterative and incremental publisher, plans to release a guide for general computer users explaining crashes and hangs on personal computers ranging from mobile phones, netbooks and laptops to desktops and servers:

My Computer Crashes and Freezes: A Non-technical Guide to Software and Hardware Errors (ISBN: 978-19067171704)

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On 15th of April last year I published

The First Windows Memory Dump Analysis Book!

To celebrate its anniversary OpenTask iterative and incremental publisher will publish Volume 3 this year simultaneously with another book featuring selected articles from Volumes 1-3 printed in full color:

Memory Dump Analysis Anthology: Color Supplement for Volumes 1-3 (ISBN: 978-1906717698)

This title will compensate for the lack of color inserts in MDAA volumes.

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