Friday, November 12th, 2010
Five volumes of cross-disciplinary Anthology (dubbed by the author “The Summa Memorianica”) lay the foundation of the scientific discipline of Memoretics (study of computer memory snapshots and their evolution in time) that is also called Memory Dump and Software Trace Analysis.ca
The 5th volume contains revised, edited, cross-referenced, and thematically organized selected DumpAnalysis.org blog posts about crash dump, software trace analysis and debugging written in February 2010 - October 2010 for software engineers developing and maintaining products on Windows platforms, quality assurance engineers testing software on Windows platforms, technical support and escalation engineers dealing with complex software issues, and security researchers, malware analysts and reverse engineers. The fifth volume features:
- 25 new crash dump analysis patterns
- 11 new pattern interaction case studies (including software tracing)
- 16 new trace analysis patterns
- 7 structural memory patterns
- 4 modeling case studies for memory dump analysis patterns
- Discussion of 3 common analysis mistakes
- Malware analysis case study
- Computer independent architecture of crash analysis report service
- Expanded coverage of software narratology
- Metaphysical and theological implications of memory dump worldview
- More pictures of memory space and physicalist art
- Classification of memory visualization tools
- Memory visualization case studies
- Close reading of the stories of Sherlock Holmes: Dr. Watson’s observational patterns
- Fully cross-referenced with Volume 1, Volume 2, Volume 3, and Volume 4
Product information:
- Title: Memory Dump Analysis Anthology, Volume 5
- Author: Dmitry Vostokov
- Language: English
- Product Dimensions: 22.86 x 15.24
- Paperback: 400 pages
- Publisher: Opentask (10 December 2010)
- ISBN-13: 978-1-906717-96-4
- Hardcover: 400 pages
- Publisher: Opentask (10 December 2010)
- ISBN-13: 978-1-906717-97-1

Back cover features memory space art image Hot Computation: Memory on Fire.
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Wednesday, June 23rd, 2010
Looks like reading Darwin biography influenced me in the direction of founding a museum. So I did and here’s its draft logo:

This multi-dimensional museum will show exhibitions dedicated to the history of debugging, memory dump artifacts and art. Stay tuned. The first exhibition opens very soon.
If you would like to donate an exhibit (for example, an old memory dump or a picture related to debugging) please use this page: http://www.dumpanalysis.org/contact. Any donations are greatly appreciated!
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Sunday, January 31st, 2010
Debugging at large. Remember those bugs from The Day Earth Stood Still movie that were nicely deactivated at once? Remember Nobel Laureate Professor Barnhardt was threading with Klaatu over the correct version of General Relativity on a blackboard and then at once realized that he was talking to an alien? His next phrase was the one that I repeat every day (and I also listen to Bach every day):
“I have so many questions to ask” this memory dump.
The Day the Earth Stood Still (2008 film)
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