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Sunday, April 1st, 2012
- Dmitry Vostokov @ DumpAnalysis.org + TraceAnalysis.org -
Archive for April, 2012
Music for Debugging: Make It Through This Trace
Sunday, April 1st, 2012Software trace analysis is notoriously difficult so a bit of folk music is needed to make debugging sessions less boring. The following album came to my attention in a local library and after listening to it I recommend it for software log analysis sessions:
Here’s my own track title interpretation:
1. Dream Away The Defects
2. This I’d Analyze
3. A Magnifier
4. Make It Through This Trace
5. Don’t Let It Go Unanalyzed
6. Request-Reply Pair
7. I Love It When It’s Short
8. No Higher Specs
9. Said, Said.
10. When I Think Of You, My Customers
11. Close to The Defect
12. A Debugger For You Now
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Crash Dumps, Acquisitions and Layoffs (Part 1)
Sunday, April 1st, 2012This is a story I would like to present for a possible discussion. A leading debugging services company A was contacted by a company B to analyze dozens of crash dumps for a modest fee*. No NDA was signed and the work was done promptly. Unfortunately there was no response to an invoice and after some time a representative from the company A contacted the company B and got an immediate reply that they were bought by a company C. The new invoice was requested and promptly sent by the company A to the company C. More time passed beyond any reasonable time frame and a representative from the company A contacted the company C again and didn’t get an immediate reply as before. After some time out of the blue came a group reply from all high execs saying that the modest fee cannot be paid because it had to be done by the company B that they bought. And by the way all guys from the company B dealing with the company A were no longer with the company C. The company A pointed out that by an implicit agreement an act of nonpayment from the company B due to unforeseen circumstances automatically made all crash dumps submitted to the company A a property of the company A.
Many would say please contact a lawyer but the modest fee doesn’t worth such a contact. When I devise a happy ending I write a second part.
* an average one day exec salary or less
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An Undisclosed Corporation Tried to Hire Vostokov, Improve a Debugger
Sunday, April 1st, 2012The founder of pattern-driven debugging was invited to HQ a few years ago to join the Corporation and work on what would become the killer of current debuggers and disassemblers.
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