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Monthly summary of my Literate Scientist blog:

• Mathematics: Form and Function
• The Princeton Companion to Mathematics
• Essays on Life Itself
• Structural Stability And Morphogenesis
• Semiotics: The Basics

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The perfect binary Christmas gift for your family and friends is soon available on Amazon, B&N and in local bookshops around the world! In the mean time you can view the product information and even order it:

Baby Turing

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Just realized that yesterday I wrote 100^th crash dump analysis pattern. Today I’m going to write 101^st. Just to remind that the fully classified color catalog of them is planned to be published:

Forthcoming CDAP Encyclopedia

More details will be announced closer to that date.

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Finally, previously announced book Baby Turing was released to manufacture. It is co-authored with my daughter and dedicated to my son. The short book annotation:

The genius of Albert Einstein was revolutionary in understanding reality of hardware (semantics of nature) but the genius of Alan Turing was revolutionary in understanding virtuality of software (syntax of computation). This book fills the gap in children’s literature and introduces binary arithmetic to babies.

The front cover:

The back cover:

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Paperback edition of Memory Dump Analysis Anthology, Volume 2 is finally available on Amazon and Barnes & Noble. Search Inside is also available on Amazon. In addition, I updated the list of recommended books:

Listmania! Crash Dump Analysis and Debugging

Hardcover edition will be available on Amazon and B&N in 2-3 weeks.

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Crash Dump Analysis Portal (www.DumpAnalysis.org) has changed its menu bar:

• - Books menu item is renamed to Reviews.

• - Added new menu item Library which features many books from my collection partially pictured on the front cover of Memory Dump Analysis Anthology volumes.

You can also access the library from this link:

http://www.dumpanalysis.org/Library 

Currently you can browse about estimated 80% of the collection bought from Amazon.com. Books bought from Amazon (.co.uk | .de | .fr | .ca) and local bookshops will be added in the future.

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“Everything is memory dump.”

I’m very excited to announce that Volume 2 is available in paperback, hardcover and digital editions:

Memory Dump Analysis Anthology, Volume 2

In one or two weeks paperback edition should also appear on Amazon and other bookstores. Amazon hardcover edition is planned to be available by the end of October.

I’m often asked when Volume 3 is available and I currently plan to release it in October - November, 2009. In the mean time I’m planning to concentrate on other publishing projects. 

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The book is nearly finished and here is the final TOC:

Memory Dump Analysis Anthology, Volume 2: Table of Contents

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Here you can find the draft TOC for the forthcoming book “DebugWare: The Art and Craft of Writing Troubleshooting and Debugging Tools”:

Table of Contents

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Finally Dr. Debugalov adventures are going to be imprinted with bugs inside. This full-color book features never published before cartoons and a few surprises. It sets a new standard for entertainment in software engineering.

• Title: Dumps, Bugs and Debugging Forensics: The Adventures of Dr. Debugalov
• Author: Narasimha Vedala
• Editor: Dmitry Vostokov
• Publisher: Opentask (1 December 2008)
• Language: English
• Product Dimensions: 21.6 x 14.0
• ISBN-13: 978-1-906717-25-4
• Paperback: 64 pages

The cover was designed by Narasimha Vedala.

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Here is the draft front cover for the forthcoming Windows Debugging Notebook:

It is based on Debugging Book Stack concept.

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Instead of providing the list of recommended books on debugging topics here is the picture that shows most of them that I own:

Hope you recognize books that you own and/or read too. Some of them were reviewed by me already:

Advanced Windows Debugging

Debugging by Thinking: A Multidisciplinary Approach

Microsoft Windows Internals: Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Windows XP, and Windows 2000

Why Programs Fail: A Guide to Systematic Debugging

and more reviews will come soon.

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“Crash dumps are fossils” 

Here is the draft TOC for the previously announced book Crash Dump Analysis for System Administrators and Support Engineers (Windows Edition) which I’m co-authoring with Thomas Monahan, a Lead Escalation Engineer at Citrix Systems:

Table of Contents

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Opentask plans to publish full-color children’s book series called “Baby Turing”:

• Title: Baby Turing
• Authors: Alexandra Vostokova, Dmitry Vostokov
• Publisher: Opentask (01 November 2008)
• Language: English
• Product Dimensions: 21.6 x 21.6
• ISBN-13: 978-1-906717-26-1
• Paperback: 16 pages

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Last week I noticed this book on Amazon and I would have passed over it if I didn’t discover 2600 magazine when browsing Microsoft Encyclopedia of Security a few months ago This morning it arrived in post and I’m looking forward reading it during my lunch time. Anthology books are well suited for such breaks because articles are not long and usually self sufficient to learn about something discrete:

The Best of 2600: A Hacker Odyssey

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“Crash dumps are fossils” of computations.

Thomas Monahan and Dmitry Vostokov, Crash Dump Analysis for System Administrators and Support Engineers (Chapter 1: The Origin of Crash Dumps)

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After writing about large heap allocations I updated the sample chapter for Windows Debugging Notebook:

Draft Sample Chapter

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I discovered today that great IDA book was published last month:

The IDA Pro Book: The Unofficial Guide to the World’s Most Popular Disassembler

Curious about this published book I did some digging and finally ordered it because in the past I was always interested in knowing more about IDA after reading about it in some reverse engineering and disassembly books (more about them later) but was somewhat dissatisfied with IDA freeware version 4.3. The last argument in buying the book was my discovery that the new freeware version is available 4.9 which looks much better:

http://www.hex-rays.com/idapro/idadownfreeware.htm

I’ll keep investigating it for the purposes of memory dump analysis.

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Previously announced  Windows Debugging: Practical Foundations  book has got its front cover done in classic B/W style. A bit frightening, but shouldn’t stop if someone is determined to learn field debugging

Please let me know what do you think. Table of contents to be published next week. 

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A few months ago I wrote about my discovery of the first memory dump book. It actually arrived but only today I got a chance to take pictures of its front and back covers. The latter explans the title of the book (MEMORY DUMP) albeit in Spanish. 

Since many pages are in Basque I decided to learn a bit about this unique language and recommend this guide:

The Basque Language: A Practical Introduction (The Basque Series)

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