Archive for the ‘Software Generalist’ Category
Thursday, February 11th, 2010
This is a revised, edited, cross-referenced and thematically organized volume of selected DumpAnalysis.org blog posts about crash dump analysis and debugging written in July 2009 - January 2010 for software engineers developing and maintaining products on Windows platforms, quality assurance engineers testing software on Windows platforms and technical support and escalation engineers dealing with complex software issues. The fourth volume features:
- 13 new crash dump analysis patterns
- 13 new pattern interaction case studies
- 10 new trace analysis patterns
- 6 new Debugware patterns and case study
- Workaround patterns
- Updated checklist
- Fully cross-referenced with Volume 1, Volume 2 and Volume 3
- New appendixes
Product information:
- Title: Memory Dump Analysis Anthology, Volume 4
- Author: Dmitry Vostokov
- Language: English
- Product Dimensions: 22.86 x 15.24
- Paperback: 410 pages
- Publisher: Opentask (30 March 2010)
- ISBN-13: 978-1-906717-86-5
- Hardcover: 410 pages
- Publisher: Opentask (30 April 2010)
- ISBN-13: 978-1-906717-87-2
Back cover features memory space art image: Internal Process Combustion.
- Dmitry Vostokov @ DumpAnalysis.org + TraceAnalysis.org -
Posted in .NET Debugging, Aesthetics of Memory Dumps, Announcements, AntiPatterns, Art, Assembly Language, Books, C and C++, CDA Pattern Classification, CDF Analysis Tips and Tricks, Categorical Debugging, Certification, Citrix, Code Reading, Common Mistakes, Computer Science, Countefactual Debugging, Crash Analysis Report Environment (CARE), Crash Dump Analysis, Crash Dump Patterns, Crash Dumps for Dummies, DebugWare Patterns, Debugging, Debugging Slang, Education and Research, Escalation Engineering, Fun with Crash Dumps, Games for Debugging, Hardware, Horrors of Computation, Hyper-V, Kernel Development, Laws of Troubleshooting and Debugging, Mathematics of Debugging, Memiotics, Memoidealism, Memoretics, Memory Analysis Culture, Memory Analysis Forensics and Intelligence, Memory Dreams, Memory Dump Analysis Jobs, Memory Dumps in Movies, Memory Space Art, Memory Visualization, Memuonics, Minidump Analysis, Multithreading, Music for Debugging, New Acronyms, New Words, Opcodism, Philosophy, Physicalist Art, Publishing, Science Fiction, Science of Memory Dump Analysis, Science of Software Tracing, Security, Software Architecture, Software Defect Construction, Software Engineering, Software Generalist, Software Maintenance Institute, Software Narratology, Software Technical Support, Software Trace Analysis, Software Trace Visualization, Software Tracing for Dummies, Software Victimology, Stack Trace Collection, Testing, Tools, Trace Analysis Patterns, Training and Seminars, Troubleshooting Methodology, Victimware, Virtualization, Vista, Visual Dump Analysis, WinDbg Scripts, WinDbg Tips and Tricks, WinDbg for GDB Users, Windows 7, Windows Server 2008, Windows System Administration, Workaround Patterns | No Comments »
Saturday, September 26th, 2009
This is a revised, edited, cross-referenced and thematically organized volume of selected DumpAnalysis.org blog posts about crash dump analysis and debugging written in October 2008 - June 2009 for software engineers developing and maintaining products on Windows platforms, quality assurance engineers testing software on Windows platforms and technical support and escalation engineers dealing with complex software issues. The third volume features:
- 15 new crash dump analysis patterns
- 29 new pattern interaction case studies
- Trace analysis patterns
- Updated checklist
- Fully cross-referenced with Volume 1 and Volume 2
- New appendixes
Product information:
- Title: Memory Dump Analysis Anthology, Volume 3
- Author: Dmitry Vostokov
- Language: English
- Product Dimensions: 22.86 x 15.24
- Paperback: 404 pages
- Publisher: Opentask (20 December 2009)
- ISBN-13: 978-1-906717-43-8
- Hardcover: 404 pages
- Publisher: Opentask (30 January 2010)
- ISBN-13: 978-1-906717-44-5
Back cover features 3D computer memory visualization image.
- Dmitry Vostokov @ DumpAnalysis.org -
Posted in Announcements, AntiPatterns, Art, Assembly Language, Books, C and C++, CDF Analysis Tips and Tricks, Certification, Citrix, Code Reading, Common Mistakes, Computational Ghosts and Bug Hauntings, Computer Science, Countefactual Debugging, Crash Dump Analysis, Crash Dump Patterns, Crash Dumps for Dummies, DebugWare Patterns, Debugging, Debugging Slang, Deep Down C++, Education and Research, Escalation Engineering, Fun with Crash Dumps, Futuristic Memory Dump Analysis, Games for Debugging, Hardware, Horrors of Computation, Hyper-V, Intelligent Memory Movement, Kernel Development, Mathematics of Debugging, Memiotics, Memoidealism, Memoretics, Memory Analysis Culture, Memory Analysis Forensics and Intelligence, Memory Dreams, Memory Dump Analysis Jobs, Memory Space Music, Memory Visualization, Memuonics, Minidump Analysis, Multithreading, Music for Debugging, New Acronyms, New Words, Occult Debugging, Philosophy, Poetry, Psi-computation, Publishing, Science of Memory Dump Analysis, Science of Software Tracing, Security, Software Architecture, Software Defect Construction, Software Engineering, Software Generalist, Software Narratology, Software Technical Support, Software Trace Analysis, Software Tracing for Dummies, Testing, Tools, Trace Analysis Patterns, Training and Seminars, Troubleshooting Methodology, Virtualization, Vista, Visual Dump Analysis, WinDbg Scripts, WinDbg Tips and Tricks, WinDbg for GDB Users, Windows 7, Windows Server 2008, Windows System Administration | No Comments »
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 -
Posted in Books, Certification, Crash Dump Analysis, Debugging, Memory Dump Analysis Jobs, Reviewed on Amazon, Software Architecture, Software Engineering, Software Generalist | No Comments »
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
Hope in one of subsequent editions the author includes my Riemann Programming Language :-)
- Dmitry Vostokov @ DumpAnalysis.org -
Posted in Announcements, Assembly Language, Books, Code Reading, Crash Dump Analysis, Debugging, Education and Research, Memory Dump Analysis Jobs, Multithreading, Reading Notebook, Reviewed on Amazon, Riemann Programming Language, Software Generalist | No Comments »
Tuesday, February 10th, 2009
On my sibling blog I started writing brief mathematical articles using UML notation to depict various concepts from modern and not so modern mathematics:
http://www.softwaregeneralist.com/category/software-and-mathematics/
- Dmitry Vostokov @ DumpAnalysis.org -
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Tuesday, January 6th, 2009
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:
Reading Notebook: 05-Jan-09
Reading Notebook: 06-Jan-09
More books will be added to this notebook soon.
- Dmitry Vostokov @ DumpAnalysis.org -
Posted in Announcements, Books, Debugging, Publishing, Reading Notebook, Software Generalist | No Comments »