Archive for February 3rd, 2009

Debugging Études

Tuesday, February 3rd, 2009

Listening to étude No. 1 in C major written by Frédéric Chopin (Op. 10) an idea came to me about writing 16 debugging études (ISBN: 978-1906717575). It is surprising that there are many programming études out there but there are no debugging ones. Stay tuned and be in touch with this blog.

Draft definition:

Debugging étude is a composition of software with intentional defects (bugs) of considerable difficulty to find and fix, designed to provide practice material to perfect debugging techniques and problem-solving skills.

The idea actually came to me long time ago to create some sort of debugging excersises for training purposes. 

- Dmitry Vostokov @ DumpAnalysis.org -

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The Year of Dump Analysis!

Tuesday, February 3rd, 2009

DumpAnalysis.org announces forthcoming 2010 as The Year of Dump Analysis.

Q&A 

Q. Why 2010?

A. Two reasons: 1) To do dump analysis effectively and efficiently an engineer needs some experience in debugging acquired in the previous year of debugging (perhaps after 7 debugging nights, 2009, 0×7D9); 2) 2010 is 0×7DA.

Q. What is the meaning of 7?

A. It is interpreted as Dump Analysis 7 days a week. Like what I do. Or from kernel pool tag perspective it is AD7: Analysis of Dumps 7 days a week. 

Q. What about the year 2011, 2012, 2013? 0×7DB, 0×7DC and 0×7DD?

A. Hmm, sounds like WinDbg commands db, dc and dd…

- Dmitry Vostokov @ DumpAnalysis.org -

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Being Fearetical

Tuesday, February 3rd, 2009

Last week had some fearetical features. What’s it all about you should wait until my memoirs are published:

Crash Dump: A Software Engineering Autobiography, ISBN: 978-1906717193

If we break down fearetical linguistically we come with the following free morphemes:

fear e tical

According to Wikipedia, the last one is a currency unit subdivided into into 64, 32, 8 and 4. A coin weighing 15g (0xFg). It was replaced by another currency unit, the franc.

- Dmitry Vostokov @ DumpAnalysis.org -

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