Archive for June 22nd, 2009

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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Bugtation No.97

Monday, June 22nd, 2009

“The real” debugging “begins only after hitting” a button.

Anonymous

- Dmitry Vostokov @ DumpAnalysis.org -

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Succession of Patterns (Part 1)

Monday, June 22nd, 2009

Looking at pattern cooperation studies it is easy to see that some patterns precede others, for example, heap corruption might be blocked by a hard error or a message box and therefore block other threads, creating conditions for another pattern to appear, wait chains. Blocked threads may block other coupled processes creating inter-process wait chains. Successive patterns reach the climax at the end and the system is no longer able to generate any other patterns.

The goal here is to find patterns that most likely happen in succession and another pattern series that are less likely to effect other abnormal conditions. Such pattern sequences can help in troubleshooting and finding root causes.

- Dmitry Vostokov @ DumpAnalysis.org - 

Posted in Crash Dump Analysis, Crash Dump Patterns, Debugging, Memory Analysis Forensics and Intelligence | 3 Comments »