Software Diagnostics Library

Got it in the post yesterday shipped via courier from Amazon:

Windows® Internals: Including Windows Server 2008 and Windows Vista, Fifth Edition (PRO-Developer)

I originally expected it to be a paperback book but as a publisher myself I welcome the final MS Press decision to make it a hardcover. It is more solid. I plan to read it from cover to cover again, starting from tomorrow. I would like to thank authors for including the reference to www.dumpanalysis.org in the conclusion part of the last chapter 14 dedicated to crash dump analysis. This came as a nice surprise for me and I’m going to install a special plaque in the office and put its picture later on my blog.

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Monthly summary of my Literate Scientist blog:

Philosophy: The Basics 

Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar

A History of Russia

Religion: The Basics

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I recently started posting book reviews on Amazon and re-posting them from my blogs. Previously I didn’t do that because I thought that Amazon acquired exclusive rights for submitted reviews but I wanted to include my selected reviews in my own books and on my own websites. Recently I read its small print and found that Amazon rights are non-exclusive. Of course, I take advantage and promote my blogs in book reviews that have the following form:

Review text …

Thanks,
Dmitry Vostokov
Founder of …
[Editor-in-Chief of …]

Software engineering book reviews point to DumpAnalysis Portal and Software Generalist blog, science, history and general non-fiction book reviews point to Literate Scientist blog, management book reviews point to Management Bits and Tips blog. I found already that people Google these blogs to find out who’s that guy and the number of visitors to my other blogs has doubled.

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Just noticed that RichardS from Australia (nickname: rsayad1) was outraged after reading Dumps, Bugs and Debugging Forensics book and burnt it in his fireplace. I applied my analytical and forensic skills and figured out his name: Richard Sayad. The only excuse for him is that crash dumps is so hot topic that he rushed to buy the book without even looking inside it on Amazon.

What do you think and what is your opinion about this book? It is basically composed from the following material:

Cartoons

The first 64 bugtations

For the book all cartoons were edited, polished and most of them became full color in the book version.

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Following the success of Windows Debugging: Practical Foundations the following title will be published this summer:

Windows Device Drivers: Practical Foundations (ISBN: 978-0955832840)

Table of contents will be posted later.

Other planned titles:

X64 Windows Debugging: Practical Foundations (ISBN: 978-1906717568) 

Windows Multithreading: Practical Foundations (ISBN: 978-1906717742)

 Like Windows Debugging book, these forthcoming titles are based on my seminars. 

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This is the main topic of the forthcoming next issue of Debugged MZ/PE magazine. The most close term is called “fault injection” but I rediscovered it as a “software defect construction”, “software defect simulation” or “software defect modeling”. The latter term is also used to refer to construction of mathematical models related to software product quality and corresponding statistics but “modeling software defects” seems appropriate subtitle for the magazine front cover picture… Software defect construction is more general term than fault injection. The latter is used for testing but we want to simulate bugs and abnormal system conditions to study debugging and memory dump analysis techniques or to build reproduction environments. I actually recently found and bought the used copy of this book:

Software Fault Injection: Inoculating Programs Against Errors

and plan to write my own book with the following working title later:

Software Defect Construction: Simulation and Modeling of Software Bugs (ISBN: 978-1906717759)

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Sometimes I’m asked about a broad software engineering book to recommend for general memory dump analysis that covers software architecture, design methods and diagramming languages like UML, programming languages, concurrency, real-time issues and many other topics you need to know to have systems understanding that helps in problem identification and debugging. Here’s the book that I was fortunate to buy 4-5 years ago in a book shop and is a sheer pleasure to read:

Software Engineering for Real-Time Systems

Today I found that there even exists an OMG certification based on it:

http://www.omg.org/ocres/exam-info.htm

I might try later this summer. 

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I was delighted to know that my books in paperback editions will be available in minutes via Espresso Book Machine: Source. You can read more about this ATM book machine from its inventor:

http://www.ondemandbooks.com/home.htm

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Monthly summary of my Literate Scientist blog (last month focus was mostly on physics):

Ideas That Matter

Linear Algebra Demystified

The 10,000 Year Explosion

Homework for Grown-ups

Einstein’s Mistakes

Relativity Demystified

Quantum Mechanics Demystified

30,000 Years of Art

Quantum Field Theory Demystified

Quantum Field Theory I

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DumpAnalysis.org has changed its book store to Amazon aStore to incorporate all published OpenTask books, magazines and notebooks:

Here is the direct link:

Dump Analysis Portal Store

The screenshot:

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I’ve been a member of Amazon Associates program since June 2007, providing links to books on my various blogs. Visitors did almost 20,000 clicks and bought almost 1,000 books (although not always ones that I recommended). Here is the list of bought or pre-ordered titles sorted by popularity:

Memory Dump Analysis Anthology, Volume 1
Advanced Windows Debugging (The Addison-Wesley Microsoft Technology Series)
Windows Debugging: Practical Foundations
WinDbg: A Reference Poster and Learning Cards
Memory Dump Analysis Anthology, Volume 2
Windows Internals: Including Windows Server 2008 and Windows Vista, Fifth Edition (PRO-Developer)
Debugged! MZ/PE: MagaZine for/from Practicing Engineers
The IDA Pro Book: The Unofficial Guide to the World’s Most Popular Disassembler
Windows via C/C++ (Pro - Developer)
Dumps, Bugs and Debugging Forensics: The Adventures of Dr. Debugalov
Windows Sysinternals Administrator’s Reference (Inside Out)
Microsoft Windows Internals (4th Edition): Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Windows XP, and Windows 2000
Running Xen: A Hands-On Guide to the Art of Virtualization
The Definitive Guide to the Xen Hypervisor (Prentice Hall Open Source Software Development Series)
Baby Turing
Inside the Machine: An Illustrated Introduction to Microprocessors and Computer Architecture
Reversing: Secrets of Reverse Engineering
The Developer’s Guide to Debugging
The Old New Thing: Practical Development Throughout the Evolution of Windows
Debugging Microsoft .NET 2.0 Applications
Developing Drivers with the Windows  Driver Foundation (Pro Developer)
The Rootkit Arsenal: Escape and Evasion in the Dark Corners of the System
Apache Server 2.0: The Complete Reference
Becoming a Technical Leader: An Organic Problem-Solving Approach
C++ Primer Plus (5th Edition)
DLL List Landscape: The Art from Computer Memory Space
Debugging by Thinking: A Multidisciplinary Approach (HP Technologies)
Designing Storage Area Networks: A Practical Reference for Implementing Fibre Channel and IP SANs (2nd Edition)
Hacking: The Art of Exploitation, 2nd Edition
Inside the C++ Object Model
Linux Kernel Development (2nd Edition) (Novell Press)
MCITP Self-Paced Training Kit (Exams 70-640, 70-642, 70-643, 70-647): Windows Server 2008 Enterprise Administrator Core Requirements
Microsoft Visual C# 2008 Step by Step
Programming Interviews Exposed: Secrets to Landing Your Next Job (Programmer to Programmer)
Programming Language Pragmatics, Second Edition
Python Essential Reference (3rd Edition) (Developer’s Library)
Reverse Engineering Code with IDA Pro
Ring Bearer, The
Rootkits: Subverting the Windows Kernel (Addison-Wesley Software Security Series)
Strong Women, Strong Bones, Updated
The Back of the Napkin: Solving Problems and Selling Ideas with Pictures
Windows NT/2000 Native API Reference (Circle)
Writing Secure Code for Windows Vista (Pro - Step By Step Developer)
A Time to Die
Accelerated Learning for the 21st Century: The Six-Step Plan to Unlock Your Master-Mind
Administering Windows Vista Security: The Big Surprises
Advanced Programming in the UNIX(R) Environment (2nd Edition) (Addison-Wesley Professional Computing Series)
Advanced Topics in Types and Programming Languages
All the Mathematics You Missed: But Need to Know for Graduate School
An Introduction to Lambda Calculi for Computer Scientists
Asterisk: The Future of Telephony
BIOS Disassembly Ninjutsu Uncovered (Uncovered series)
Basic Abstract Algebra
Basic Category Theory for Computer Scientists (Foundations of Computing)
Bit by Bit: An Illustrated History of Computers
Breaking Through the BIOS Barrier: The Definitive BIOS Optimization Guide for PCs
C++ GUI Programming with Qt4 (2nd Edition) (Prentice Hall Open Source Software Development Series)
C++ Iostreams Handbook
C++ Template Metaprogramming: Concepts, Tools, and Techniques from Boost and Beyond (C++ In-Depth Series)
C: A Reference Manual (5th Edition)
CLR via C#, Second Edition (Pro Developer)
Code Complete: A Practical Handbook of Software Construction
Code Craft: The Practice of Writing Excellent Code
Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software
Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and Tools (2nd Edition)
Complete Digital Photography, Fourth Edition (Graphics Series)
Computer Repair with Diagnostic Flowcharts: Troubleshooting PC Hardware Problems from Boot Failure to Poor Performance, Revised Edition
Computer Science Made Simple: Learn how hardware and software work– and how to make them work for you! (Made Simple)
Concepts, Techniques, and Models of Computer Programming
Cross-Platform Development in C++: Building Mac OS X, Linux, and Windows Applications
Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery Handbook
Debugging
Debugging Applications: Microsoft (Dv-Mps Programming)
Debugging Windows Programs: Strategies, Tools, and Techniques for Visual C++ Programmers (The DevelopMentor Series)
Developing Drivers with the Windows  Driver Foundation
Domain-Specific Development with Visual Studio DSL Tools (Microsoft .NET Development Series)
Electronic Data Interchange in Finance and Accounting
Exceptional C++: 47 Engineering Puzzles, Programming Problems, and Solutions (C++ In-Depth Series)
Expert F# (Expert’s Voice in .Net)
Exploiting Software: How to Break Code (Addison-Wesley Software Security Series)
Extended STL, Volume 1: Collections and Iterators
Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets
Forgotten Realms Campaign Guide, 4th Edition
Foundations of Qt Development
Framework Design Guidelines: Conventions, Idioms, and Patterns for Reusable .NET Libraries (Microsoft .NET Development Series)
Functional Programming: Practice and Theory
Game Graphics Programming
Golden Fox
Hacking Exposed Windows: Microsoft Windows Security Secrets and Solutions, Third Edition
Hacking Exposed, Sixth Edition: Network Security Secrets And Solutions
Hacking Windows XP (ExtremeTech)
Henry James: Complete Stories 1884-1891 (Library of America)
Henry James: Complete Stories 1864-1874 (Library of America)
Henry James: Complete Stories 1874-1884 (Library of America)
Henry James: Complete Stories 1898-1910 (Library of America)
Henry James: Complete Stories, 1892-1898 (Library of America)
Heretic (The Grail Quest, Book 3)
High Performance Web Sites: Essential Knowledge for Front-End Engineers
How to Ace the Brainteaser Interview
How to Be Evangelical Without Being Conservative
Imperfect C++: Practical Solutions for Real-Life Programming
Implementing Elliptic Curve Cryptography
Inside Microsoft  SQL Server(TM) 2005: The Storage Engine (Solid Quality Learning)
Inside Microsoft SQL Server(TM) 2005: Query Tuning and Optimization
Inside the Revolution: How the Followers of Jihad, Jefferson & Jesus Are Battling to Dominate . . .
Intelligent Data Analysis
Learning Perl, 5th Edition
Learning Python, 3rd Edition
Learning the vi and Vim Editors
Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the American Left, From Mussolini to the Politics of Meaning
Linux System Programming: Talking Directly to the Kernel and C Library
Linux(R) Debugging and Performance Tuning: Tips and Techniques (Prentice Hall Open Source Software Development Series)
MCITP Self-Paced Training Kit (Exam 70-441): Designing Database Solutions by Using Microsoft  SQL Server(TM) 2005 (Self-Paced Training Kits)
MCTS Self-Paced Training Kit (Exam 70-431): Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Implementation and Maintenance (Pro-Certification)
Making Sense of Data: A Practical Guide to Exploratory Data Analysis and Data Mining
Mastering Regular Expressions
Michael Freeman’s Top Digital Photography Tips (A Lark Photography Book)
MicroC OS II: The Real Time Kernel (With CD-ROM)
Microsoft  SQL Server(TM) 2000 High Availability
Microsoft Visual Studio Tips
Microsoft Mobile Development Handbook
More Effective C#: 50 Specific Ways to Improve Your C# (Effective Software Development Series)
Nanny State: How Food Fascists, Teetotaling Do-Gooders, Priggish Moralists, and other Boneheaded Bureaucrats are Turning America into a Nation of Chil
Networking Basics CCNA 1 Companion Guide (Cisco Networking Academy)
Never at Rest: A Biography of Isaac Newton (Cambridge Paperback Library)
No Tech Hacking: A Guide to Social Engineering, Dumpster Diving, and Shoulder Surfing
On Bullshit
Optics (4th Edition)
PC Bios: Improve and Upgrade Your PC’S Computing Power!
Physics of the Impossible: A Scientific Exploration into the World of Phasers, Force Fields, Teleportation, and Time Travel
Point-Counterpoint: Readings in American Government
Power of the Sword
Practical Guide to SysML: The Systems Modeling Language
Practical Internet Security
Practical Packet Analysis: Using Wireshark to Solve Real-World Network Problems
Pro Visual C++ 2005 for C# Developers
Professional Assembly Language (Programmer to Programmer)
Professional Rootkits (Programmer to Programmer)
Professional Visual Studio Extensibility
Programming Erlang: Software for a Concurrent World
Programming Interviews Exposed: Secrets to Landing Your Next Job, 2nd Edition (Programmer to Programmer)
Programming Python
Programming Windows Embedded CE 6.0 Developer Reference, 4th Edition
Programming Windows Security (DevelopMentor Series)
Programming in the Key of C#: A Primer for Aspiring Programmers (Step By Step (Microsoft))
Programming the Microsoft Windows Driver Model, Second Edition
Programming with POSIX(R) Threads (Addison-Wesley Professional Computing Series)
Python Cookbook
Python in a Nutshell (In a Nutshell (O’Reilly))
Quantum Learning: Unleashing the Genius in You
RESTful Web Services
Rage
Reflections on a Theory of Organisms
Rick Sammon’s Exploring the Light: Making the Very Best In-Camera Exposures
SQL Server Forensic Analysis
Secure Programming with Static Analysis (Addison-Wesley Software Security Series)
Skin: The Complete Guide to Digitally Lighting, Photographing, and Retouching Faces and Bodies
Software Estimation: Demystifying the Black Art (Best Practices (Microsoft))
Standard C++ IOStreams and Locales: Advanced Programmer’s Guide and Reference
Strategy: An Introduction to Game Theory, 2nd Edition
Subject To Change: Creating Great Products & Services for an Uncertain World: Adaptive Path on Design (Adaptive Path)
Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman! (Adventures of a Curious Character)
Surreal Numbers
Swords & Circuitry: A Designer’s Guide to Computer Role-Playing Games (Game Development)
System Center Operations Manager 2007 Unleashed
Teach Yourself Ole Programming in 21 Days/Book
The Art of Debugging with GDB, DDD, and Eclipse
The BIOS Companion: The book that doesn’t come with your motherboard!
The Basque Language: A Practical Introduction (The Basque Series)
The Best of 2600: A Hacker Odyssey
The BetterPhoto Guide to Photographing Children (BetterPhoto Series)
The Burning Shore
The C++ Standard Library Extensions: A Tutorial and Reference
The Game Localization Handbook (Game Development Series)
The God Delusion
The Great Terror: A Reassessment
The Haskell Road to Logic, Maths and Programming (Texts in Computing S.)
The Haskell School of Expression: Learning Functional Programming through Multimedia
The New Turing Omnibus: Sixty-Six Excursions in Computer Science
The Notebooks of Henry James
The Princeton Companion to Mathematics
The Ultimate Guide to Video Game Writing and Design
Three Dragon Ante (Dungeon & Dragons)
Time Management for System Administrators
Traditional Wooden Toys: Their History and How to Make Them
Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do (and What It Says About Us)
Types and Programming Languages
WPF in Action with Visual Studio 2008
Why Programs Fail, Second Edition: A Guide to Systematic Debugging
Why Programs Fail: A Guide to Systematic Debugging
Windows  via C/C++ (PRO-Developer) (Pro - Developer)
Windows Forensic Analysis Including DVD Toolkit
Windows Home Server: Protect and Simplify your Digital Life
Windows NT File System Internals (OSR Classic Reprints)
Windows PowerShell in Action
Windows XP Hacks
Witches Abroad
Write Faster, Write Better
Yoga Spandakarika: The Sacred Texts at the Origins of Tantra
bash Cookbook: Solutions and Examples for bash Users (Cookbooks (O’Reilly))
The Failure Factory: How Unelected Bureaucrats, Liberal Democrats, and Big Government Republicans Are Undermining America’s Security and Leading Us to War

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Found today this book while browsing Amazon:

The Rootkit Arsenal: Escape and Evasion in the Dark Corners of the System

Intrigued, I searched for its table of contents and found the author’s site:

Book TOC

Looks enough comprehensive so I pre-ordered the book and plan to write a review later from windows internals and memory dump analysis perspective.

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Instead of publishing another philosophical treatise ”On …”, OpenTask, iterative and incremental publisher, plans to release my collection of bugtations in somewhat extended version by the end of this summer:  

On Debugging: Bugtations and Other Humorous Quotations (ISBN: 978-1906717285)

The book also includes short biographical notes, commentaries and relevant explanations. Hope you would enjoy it. 

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This is a forthcoming book to be released next year after we finally publish DebugWare book by the end of this summer:

Software Tracing and Logging: Architecture, Design, Implementation and Analysis Patterns (ISBN: 978-1906717728)

I have already begun working on it in the background. The scope of DebugWare book is too wide to cover tracing and logging in great detail not to mention the very important subject of software trace analysis.

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Last weekend I came across this book in a local bookshop:

Patterns Of The Earth

I immediately recalled all beautiful patterns I have seen and collected from visualized computer memory maps. I plan to include many images in a full-color book this summer:

Patterns of Computer Memory (ISBN: 978-1906717711)

This book should be essential for creative computer engineers and inquiring debugging minds!

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OpenTask, iterative and incremental publisher, plans to release a guide for general computer users explaining crashes and hangs on personal computers ranging from mobile phones, netbooks and laptops to desktops and servers:

My Computer Crashes and Freezes: A Non-technical Guide to Software and Hardware Errors (ISBN: 978-19067171704)

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As soon as I wrote my review of the 2nd edition I found out that the 3rd edition was recently published and immediately bought it. I intend to read it from cover to cover again and publish my notes and comments in my reading notebook on Software Generalist blog. The new edition is also bundled with a companion CD.

Programming Language Pragmatics, Third Edition

Hope in one of subsequent editions the author includes my Riemann Programming Language :-)

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Monthly summary of my Literate Scientist blog:

Young Stalin

General Chemistry

Evolution: The First Four Billion Years

More Than a Theory

Understanding the Infinite

Conceptual Mathematics

The Coming of the Third Reich

Comrades

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I finally read this book from cover to cover and I must say it is the very sound book and presents a consistent approach to debugging real-life problems with user-land C and C++ code on Linux environments.

The Developer’s Guide to Debugging

Although it uses mainly GDB for illustrations and provides Visual C++ equivalents when possible it doesn’t cover Debugging Tools for Windows and its main GUI debugger, WinDbg. To rectify this I created extensive notes while reading.

Additional reader audience for this book might include a Windows engineer who needs to debug software on Linux or FreeBSD so a quick GDB crash course is needed. It would also serve as an excellent debugging course or as a supplemental course to any C or C++ course. Highly recommended if you are a Linux C/C++ software engineer. Even if you are an experienced one, you will find something new or make your debugging more consistent. If you need to teach or mentor juniors, this book helps too.

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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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