Archive for the ‘Debugging Slang’ Category

Bug-sistential and Bug-sistentialism (Debugging Slang, Part 6)

Tuesday, January 26th, 2010

Bug-sistential - pertaining to existing bugs
Bug-sistentialism - a pessimistic outlook about the existence of bugs

Examples: What a bug-sistential problem we have to solve here! Pure bug-sistentialism!

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Mad Day (Debugging Slang, Part 5)

Sunday, December 20th, 2009
a mad day - a day spent doing memory (dump) analysis and/or debugging

Examples: What a mad day! We had several blokes at a bobo address. Those events were rather sad.

- Dmitry Vostokov @ DumpAnalysis.org -

Memory Dump Analysis Anthology, Volume 3

Sunday, December 20th, 2009

“Memory dumps are facts.”

I’m very excited to announce that Volume 3 is available in paperback, hardcover and digital editions:

Memory Dump Analysis Anthology, Volume 3

Table of Contents

In two weeks paperback edition should also appear on Amazon and other bookstores. Amazon hardcover edition is planned to be available in January 2010.

The amount of information was so voluminous that I had to split the originally planned volume into two. Volume 4 should appear by the middle of February together with Color Supplement for Volumes 1-4. 

- Dmitry Vostokov @ DumpAnalysis.org -

BoBo Address (Debugging Slang, Part 4)

Thursday, November 12th, 2009
bobo address - an address a system will definitely crash at, given an opportunity

Examples: bad0b0b0, 00000000

- Dmitry Vostokov @ DumpAnalysis.org -

Forthcoming Memory Dump Analysis Anthology, Volume 3

Saturday, September 26th, 2009

This is a revised, edited, cross-referenced and thematically organized volume of selected DumpAnalysis.org blog posts about crash dump analysis and debugging written in October 2008 - June 2009 for software engineers developing and maintaining products on Windows platforms, quality assurance engineers testing software on Windows platforms and technical support and escalation engineers dealing with complex software issues. The third volume features:

- 15 new crash dump analysis patterns
- 29 new pattern interaction case studies
- Trace analysis patterns
- Updated checklist
- Fully cross-referenced with Volume 1 and Volume 2
- New appendixes

Product information:

  • Title: Memory Dump Analysis Anthology, Volume 3
  • Author: Dmitry Vostokov
  • Language: English
  • Product Dimensions: 22.86 x 15.24
  • Paperback: 404 pages
  • Publisher: Opentask (20 December 2009)
  • ISBN-13: 978-1-906717-43-8
  • Hardcover: 404 pages
  • Publisher: Opentask (30 January 2010)
  • ISBN-13: 978-1-906717-44-5

Back cover features 3D computer memory visualization image.

- Dmitry Vostokov @ DumpAnalysis.org -

SAD Events (Debugging Slang, Part 3)

Thursday, September 3rd, 2009
SAD event

System or Application Dump event

- Dmitry Vostokov @ DumpAnalysis.org -

Debugging Slang (Part 2)

Thursday, March 12th, 2009

American equivalent of a British bloke:

a pal - a panic alarm

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

- Dmitry Vostokov @ DumpAnalysis.org -

Debugging Slang (Part 1)

Tuesday, March 10th, 2009
a bloke - a blown kernel

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

- Dmitry Vostokov @ DumpAnalysis.org -