Archive for April 1st, 2009

LiterateScientist update (March, 2009)

Wednesday, April 1st, 2009

Monthly summary of my Literate Scientist blog:

A First Course in String Theory

The Strangest Man

This Is Biology

- Dmitry Vostokov @ DumpAnalysis.org -

2nd edition of Why Programs Fail book

Wednesday, April 1st, 2009

Andreas Zeller to publish the second edition of his book this summer:

Why Programs Fail, Second Edition: A Guide to Systematic Debugging

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I really enjoyed reading the first edition a few years ago, liked the fact that he uses mathematics to prove propositions of delta debugging, illustrate memory graphs and cause-effect chains. I’m looking forward to reading the second edition.

- Dmitry Vostokov @ DumpAnalysis.org -

New Memory Dump Type in Windows 7!

Wednesday, April 1st, 2009

Microsoft to add 5th memory dump type to the final version of Windows 7. In addition to kernel, complete, mini and user dump file types new memory dumps will include all open files to allow full data recovery and postmortem process resurrection on another computer. The new coming soon version of WinDbg includes specialized extensions for process instantiation and recursive data recovery near the point of failure:

blogs.technet.com/5thcolumn

- Dmitry Vostokov @ DumpAnalysis.org -