Archive for July 4th, 2010

The Curious Incident of the Tsar in the Day-Time

Sunday, July 4th, 2010

The title of this blog post is a bugtated Sherlock Holmes phrase “… the curious incident of the dog in the night-time.” from Silver Blaze short story. To see why please watch a video at the end of this post.

Last week I was in St. Petersburg where I visited a bookshop Singer House 

 

and bought “A Grammar of the Coptic Language” book (in Russian) to practice with ancient memory dumps:

Before that I was circling on an 18th-century coach (seems to be a model if we look at its door handle):

After the riding I was looking around and spotted the Tsar (click on a picture to watch the movie):

- Dmitry Vostokov @ DumpAnalysis.org + TraceAnalysis.org -

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Presenting a Software Story

Sunday, July 4th, 2010

It’s time to introduce a conceptual software narratological framework for viewing software traces (using rich ETW / CDF tracing as our main focus). Here we consider a software story (fabula) as a full trace when every component was selected for tracing and emits debug messages during code execution paths. However, during viewing we can filter on and off certain modules, threads, processes, messages, etc. (adjoint threading) and see a different sub-story or plot (sujet). Every software plot (please do not confuse with PLOT acronym) can be presented differently (using appropriate discourse). Some presentational examples include temporal rearrangement, collapse of repetitive regions, source code hypertext (lexia) and allegorical devices such as message tool-tip comments. Here is a diagram that depicts story (fable, fabula) - plot (sujet) - presentation (discourse):

- Dmitry Vostokov @ DumpAnalysis.org + TraceAnalysis.org -

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