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Preliminary Review of Advanced .NET Debugging

Tuesday, December 8th, 2009

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

- Dmitry Vostokov @ DumpAnalysis.org -

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Review Campaign on Amazon

Monday, June 22nd, 2009

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.

- Dmitry Vostokov @ DumpAnalysis.org -

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Software Engineering for Memory Analysis

Thursday, June 4th, 2009

Sometimes I’m asked about a broad software engineering book to recommend for general memory dump analysis that covers software architecture, design methods and diagramming languages like UML, programming languages, concurrency, real-time issues and many other topics you need to know to have systems understanding that helps in problem identification and debugging. Here’s the book that I was fortunate to buy 4-5 years ago in a book shop and is a sheer pleasure to read:

Software Engineering for Real-Time Systems

Today I found that there even exists an OMG certification based on it:

http://www.omg.org/ocres/exam-info.htm

I might try later this summer.

- Dmitry Vostokov @ DumpAnalysis.org -

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Patterns of Computer Memory

Monday, May 18th, 2009

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!

- Dmitry Vostokov @ DumpAnalysis.org -

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Programming Language Pragmatics (3rd Edition)

Friday, May 8th, 2009

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