Just noticed that the new book will be published this August:
The Developer’s Guide to Debugging
Table of contents is available here:
Springer (ISBN: 978-1-4020-5539-3 TOC)
I’ve pre-ordered it and once I get it and read it I’ll post a review.
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New cartoon from Narasimha Vedala provides an artist perspective:
A Day at Windows Internals Dissection Exam
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Poor Links and Tools sections are now populated and more will be added in the future together with link classification:
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Yet another insightful cartoon from Narasimha Vedala (click on it to enlarge):
Spider Man
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I was very pleased to notice that the reference to crash dump analysis patterns and Memory Dump Analysis Anthology book appeared on Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debugging
Special thanks to a person who added this information!
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These are patterns for troubleshooting and debugging tools: solutions for common recurrent problems. Forthcoming book
DebugWare: The Art and Craft of Writing Troubleshooting Tools
which I’m writing with Kapildev Ramlal, the author of several Citrix tools, will discuss them in sufficient detail. The first pattern is named:
API Query
Software products use various API and external interfaces to query data or get notifications from operating system environment. Their behaviour depends on API return values or output parameters that are not always logged or logged with insufficient detail. In order to reproduce or diagnose problems an engineer can write a small API Query tool that will periodically or asynchronously query the same set of API and log their input and output data. If the problem happens with the product at some point this additional log will help in problem identification and resolution.
Examples:
I’ve set up a dedicated page for DebugWare patterns:
http://www.dumpanalysis.org/blog/index.php/debugware-patterns/
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You won’t find any insightful information in this post only the fact that it really involves a railroad! Because registration and 071-660 beta exam itself expire shortly there were no physical seats available in testing centers in Dublin, Republic of Ireland, where I live. So I had to book the exam in a completely remote city about 3 hours by train! Its amazing to what distances people can travel to be certified in hot topic.
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The proposed World Heavy-weight Debugging Championship and the cartoon come from Narasimha Vedala (click to enlarge):
At The Championships
WHDC is also known as the abbreviation of Windows Hardware Developer Central.
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New cartoons from Narasimha Vedala:
Valley Of Death
At A Glance
Igor Messes Up
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One of the users pointed out that Dump Analysis Portal font (Courier New) doesn’t correspond to default BSOD fonts for Windows XP and Vista. According to Wikipedia article:
“The XP BSoD uses the Lucida Console font while the Vista BSoD uses the Consolas font.”
I changed CSS style and now you can enjoy Lucida Console when viewing the portal from Windows XP, Consolas when viewing from Windows Vista and Courier New from other operating systems.
Blog theme remains unchanged until I experiment with new fonts. Consolas font will be also used in one of the forthcoming reference books.
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More cartoons from Narasimha Vedala:
Heap Analysis
Revolution Is Brewing
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This fictional character and cartoons are the creation of Narasimha Vedala and I’m sure you will enjoy them as much as I do:
Bug On Stack
At The Board
Field Guide To Analysis
Unearthing Bugs
Bugs Doom
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The publisher Opentask has got its own website:
Please don’t hesitate to visit and comment 
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Finally I decided to translate selected blog posts into Russian language to make them available for Russian search engines and additionally improve, or better to say, restore my native language skills because I have been reading and writing mostly in English for the last 8 years:
I also hope that the ongoing translation will help me in the future to publish Memory Dump Analysis Anthology in Russian language.
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The new Microsoft beta exam is open for registration from 17th of July! Details can be found here:
Windows Internals Beta Exam 71-660
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There is a growing Windows Debugging group on Facebook which I joined recently:
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=23775552268
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Previously I noticed that it reached #1 bestseller status in Assembly Language Programming category but today I see it #1 bestseller in Debugging category:
| Books > Computers & Internet > Programming > Languages & Tools > Debugging |
| Books > Computers & Internet > Programming > Languages & Tools > Assembly Language Programming |
And again, I remind that because the status is updated every hour you might not see the same status when you read this post 
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Just came from Russia where in the woods of Udmurtia I found this bug:
It will be on a front page of one of my forthcoming books scheduled by the end of August.
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