A few have probably noticed (following numerous Twitter updates) my preference for combining lunches with book and magazine (a mini-book) reading (also combined with Mod N reading system). From now on this activity obtains the status of a ritual in Memorianity and depicted on this physicalist art picture (the choice of book titles is arbitrary and fully coincidental for this post):
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Advanced .NET Debugging (Addison-Wesley Microsoft Technology Series)
I’ve just started reading this book (see my notes on Software Generalist blog) and this review is written from the perspective of an unmanaged and native software engineer (the last phrase sounds funny). Being a member of a software support of a large software company I analyze crash dumps that have mscorwks.dll on their stack traces. So if you see them too this book helps you to understand what this DLL is all about and how to dig inside the hidden world of .NET it manages. I’m on page 26 and will update this review as soon as I finish the book in a few months. Please also see my review of the previous Mario’s (co-authored with Daniel Pravat) book: Advanced Windows Debugging. It is of great importance to know .NET world for Windows maintenance engineers and I originally planned a similar book Unmanaged Code: Escaping the Matrix of .NET but didn’t have time to finish it yet 
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I always carry my blogging notebook with me. A few weeks ago I was pictured while trying to reach it and write down one of ideas that usually spring to my mind during nature and family walks:
I plan to update The Perfect Gift for a Blogger in Q1, 2010 taking into account my year long experience with it and various accumulated suggestions. It will also have a short Twitter section.
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The idea to have a reading notebook online came to me after I recalled that at school I heard that Lenin had Philosophical Notebooks. You can find them in Lenin Internet Library, volume 38 of his Collected Works. As a schoolboy, I was curious about Lenin’s notebooks and even borrowed them from the school library to see how they looked like inside. I wasn’t impressed though due to the lack of philosophical knowledge on my side but the idea stuck to my mind. At my school age I read his biography several times and my favourite episode was an assassination attempt by socialist revolutionary Fanny Kaplan.
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I resumed this week my reading notebook on Software Generalist blog with a top priority book to read every working day: Windows Internals, 5th edition. In reading notes I put what I find interesting for me (at this time) or related to Windows memory dump analysis or debugging and troubleshooting in general. For the latter case, sometimes I put additional references or even WinDbg examples from user, kernel and complete memory dumps in full color. Hope you find these notes useful too:
http://www.softwaregeneralist.com/category/notes-on-windows-internals/
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I’ve decided to spend a few hours every week reading and / or re-reading various Intel 64 and IA-32 Architectures manuals to keep myself informed in differences between x64 and x86, revive Asmpedia and perhaps even apply gained insights to memory dump analysis. Today I read 2.1 - 2.2.5 sections from Volume 1 and here’s a rough picture of processor families that I assembled after reading:
Most of these models and their hardware architecture are discussed in this popular book that I read more than a year ago and still recommend without hesitation:
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As soon as I wrote my review of the 2nd edition I found out that the 3rd edition was recently published and immediately bought it. I intend to read it from cover to cover again and publish my notes and comments in my reading notebook on Software Generalist blog. The new edition is also bundled with a companion CD.
Programming Language Pragmatics, Third Edition
Hope in one of subsequent editions the author includes my Riemann Programming Language :-)
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Here is the monthly summary of my Software Generalist blog including some March posts:
Standard Model and UML (Part 1)
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Long time ago a professor of mathematical analysis told me a joke about reading comprehension levels:
Level 1: You feel good while reading
Level 2: You can repeat what you’ve read
Level 3: You can refute what you’ve read
After looking at some books on my shelves that I bought last month including 11 volume history of philosophy I would like to add
Level 0: You feel good before reading
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Here is the monthly summary of my Software Generalist blog including some January posts:
Software Labour and Alienation
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If you are interested in mathematical ideas or want to learn serious math you can skip proofs when reading various math textbooks. My speed of math book processing greatly increased after I started to skip proofs of lemmas and theorems. The slow progress through proofs inhibited my reading advance in the past. Even professional mathematicians confess after a few beers how slow they are as Thomas Garrity mentioned in the preface to his book All the Mathematics You Missed. I found that it is more important is to read several books on the same subject to see different explanations and more examples than to concentrate on a one book. By skipping proofs I can now read 2-3 more books in the same amount of time.
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Here is weekly summary of my Software Generalist blog:
Optimal Discrete Reading Chunks
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Here is weekly summary of my Software Generalist blog:
Software and Philosophical Beliefs
Redefining Software Generalist
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This year I revived one of my side blogs by transforming the failed book stack reading approach into a reading notebook that will eventually be a part of planned software engineering notebooks with the first one to be published in Q2 or so (ISBN-13: 978-1-906717-14-8):
An Attempt to Revive this Blog
Yesterday and today I did some reading as well:
More books will be added to this notebook soon.
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