Software Diagnostics Library

On 15th of April last year I published

The First Windows Memory Dump Analysis Book!

To celebrate its anniversary OpenTask iterative and incremental publisher will publish Volume 3 this year simultaneously with another book featuring selected articles from Volumes 1-3 printed in full color:

Memory Dump Analysis Anthology: Color Supplement for Volumes 1-3 (ISBN: 978-1906717698)

This title will compensate for the lack of color inserts in MDAA volumes.

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I aim to make Debugged! MZ/PE a quarterly publication and the next issue is to be by the end of June. Its main topic is  modeling software bugs:

Debugged! MZ/PE: Modeling Software Defects, June, 2009 (ISBN: 978-1906717681)

If you have an article idea or if you’d like to write an article for this issue please use the following contact form:

http://www.dumpanalysis.org/contact

The deadline is June 15. 

Here is the draft front cover:

The back cover remains secret until release and will feature tips on debugging.

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To paraphrase ”The Importance of Being Earnest“ I have made a Euclidean rigid motion on a plane by coming back from management line back to engineering line: my new title at Citrix Systems is Principal Dev Analysis Engineer. In the past before embarking on a blogger’s and writer’s career I wanted to become a Manager (and eventually became the one after being a Team Lead) and even had plans to enroll into one of business schools to get an MBA but now engineering path seems more natural to me at these times.

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Monthly summary of my Literate Scientist blog:

A First Course in String Theory

The Strangest Man

This Is Biology

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

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

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.

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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

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The paperback version of the book Windows Debugging: Practical Foundations has been temporarily out of print since the last week but this should be resolved very soon in a few days. OpenTask also submitted to print a hardcover version (ISBN: 978-1906717674) and it should be available for sale by the end of this week.

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Finally it has been published and available for orders from Amazon and other bookstores:

http://www.dumpanalysis.org/Debugged+Magazine

I had to increase the number of pages for the first issue from 16, planned originally, to 28 and this is reflected in the retail price of $10 (originally planned $8) but bookstores should sell it with a discount between 0% and 55%.

More information about the next issue should be ready by the end of the next week.

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Previously announced Memory Analysis and Debugging Institute was registered in the Republic of Ireland (No. 382026) last week.

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I’m very proud to announce that my first 2 volumes of Memory Dump Analysis Anthology are to be translated and published in the Republic of Korea this year:

http://www.opentask.com/korean-rights-mdaa-v1-v2

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While fighting the flu last week I forgot that on 26^th of March, 2006 I registered this domain. My excitement was so great that I couldn’t sleep the following night. I originally thought of domain names like crashdumpanalysis or memorydumpanalysis but was convinced by one of my colleagues that the shorter dumpanalysis is better.

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Yesterday I submitted the magazine to print and distribution world-wide. If everything is right it should be available by the end of this month. This first issue features 12 page WinDbg command supplement to pattern-driven memory dump analysis methodology, an overview of Win32dd complete memory dumper and PowerDbg enhancements to debug ASP.NET code. The magazine will only be available in print.

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During the last week of March I’m planning to take a break to write a mini-treatise explaining my dangerous idea in detail:

Parameterized Science: Universal Memory Dumps and the Grand Unification (ISBN: 978-1906717650)

This full color small publication should appear in print by the end of April and start an iterative and incremental publishing thread in philosophy.

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Today I found this book in a local bookshop but didn’t buy it because I couldn’t find enough dangerous ideas in it: 

What Is Your Dangerous Idea?: Today’s Leading Thinkers on the Unthinkable

So I give my own dangerous idea in return: in the future, all sciences, engineering and technology will be ultimately fused and concerned with universal memory dumps of empirical data where appropriate symbol files will be used for every science as we know today, these files called science files. The set of science files can be considered as a parameter, hence the name of this idea. In another words, there will be one Science of memory dump analysis and many sciences. All sciences will be finally unified.

Now the question. Would it be also possible to discover new sciences by finding a suitable set of science files corresponding to a collected dump of empirical data?

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a bloke - a blown kernel

Examples: I see a bloke. I got this company’s bloke.

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I’m sorry to announce that the book has been delayed and the publication date has been changed to 30th of November, 2009. I promise this delay is the last one and kindly ask you to be patient. As a bonus or compensation for it, the book will also cover Windows 7.

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A new book is planned by OpenTask with the following preliminary details:

State and Event: Categorical Foundations of Being and Time (ISBN: 978-1906717643)

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Just found on Amazon this forthcoming book:

Windows® Sysinternals Administrator’s Reference (Inside Out)

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