This month marks 5 years of blogging that resulted in more than 2,500 posts across 8 blogs. I would like to thank everyone for their continuing support! The major milestones are marked on the updated timeline.
- Dmitry Vostokov @ DumpAnalysis.org + TraceAnalysis.org -
After reading many history books I found that the real historical, sociological and psychological force (often seen unconscious from outside) is the will to be memorized (saved in memories, in memory dumps, also called as the will to be remembered) and not the will to power (Nietzsche). As often with the will it is also linked with vices and virtues. For the vice side we site Michael Burleigh: “Concern with posterity was apparent among the Nazi leadership, […]” and what we see now “… B-movie villains were self-consciously assigning themselves parts within an A-movie which runs and runs” today (documentaries, books, magazines, TV and the so called ‘Hitler industry’ “by the way of continuity”). As a more recent example, the recent tragedy in Norway clearly shows the desire of the protagonist to be memorized (masqueraded as a political agenda).
This is not to say that the will to power is not important, it is important by the way that by being memorized you actually exert more power in the future. Memorianity (memory religion) and its philosophical foundation (memoidealism) promote the will to be memorized as a virtue if all your deeds are seen as a virtue (see Memorianity and Morality).
- Dmitry Vostokov @ DumpAnalysis.org + TraceAnalysis.org -
I’m speechless for this occasion, look with awe at what has been done, and can only show a slide from the yesterday’s presentation Introduction to Pattern-Driven Software Problem Solving:
- Dmitry Vostokov @ DumpAnalysis.org + TraceAnalysis.org -
One of the great surprises in 2010 was the popularity of WinDbg.org page. I had never thought it was so popular! Originally forwarded to a subdomain of Crash Dump Analysis Portal when introduced in February, 2008 as a way to quickly download Debugging Tools for Windows and set up symbols it was made a full domain in July, 2010 with corresponding Google Analytics setup. Since then it enjoys 7,000 - 9,000 visits per month with almost 93% return rate with Microsoft, Intel, HP, Road Runner, Dell, Citrix, EMC, CA, Samsung, Cisco, Symantec, AMD, IBM, Oracle, and McAfee among its biggest users. I myself find it very useful in the field when I need to quickly setup debugging components. To the best of my knowledge the page remains the fastest way to that. There will be more useful information linked to it in 2011.
Another trend is the rise of the online version of Debugged! MZ/PE magazine that was completely redesigned in August, 2010 and now approaches 2,000 visitors per month. In 2011 there are some new initiatives coming for this online magazine.
- Dmitry Vostokov @ DumpAnalysis.org + TraceAnalysis.org -
The Year of Dump Analysis, 0×7DA, was another remarkable year for DumpAnalysis.org. Here is the list of major achievements to report:
- Proposed software narratological framework
- Extended the concept of multithreading with adjoint threading
- After recognizing victimware as a counterpart to crimeware established Victimware.org (currently points to Memory Dump, Software Trace, Debugging and Malware Analysis Portal)
- Established the Dublin School of Security
- Proposed using category theory for memory dump analysis as an alternative to set-theoretical frameworks
- Secured the first Memory Dump Analysis Audit Service and its subsidiary Tool Objects: Unified Troubleshooting and Debugging to become portal sponsors
- Completely redesigned Debugging Experts Magazine Online
- Contributed to two issues of Debugged! MZ/PE magazine: Multithreading and Tools for Software Problem Solving
- Published the 4th volume of Memory Dump Analysis Anthology with color supplement
- Prepared material for the 5th volume of Memory Dump Analysis Anthology (to be published in January, 2011)
- Organized the first Debugging Jokes Competition and the first Tell Your Windows Debugging Story Competition
- Established the Metaphysical Society of Ireland to promote memory dump worldview
- Helped to deliver Fundamentals of Complete Crash and Hang Memory Dump Analysis webinar
- Established the Museum of Debugging and Memory Dumps (the 1st exhibition opens in 2011)
- Introduced Unified Debugging patterns, Workaround patterns and Structural Memory Analysis patterns
- Proposed and organized the first Memory Analysts and Debuggers Day (to be celebrated annually)
- Continued working on CARE research project and published its reference architecture
- Unified memory dump and software trace analysis patterns as software behavior patterns
- Memory Dump Analysis Anthology got international recognition when Korean translation of 1st volume was published
… and much more including many new memory dump and software trace analysis patterns, pattern icons, pattern models, and pattern-driven analysis case studies.
- Dmitry Vostokov @ DumpAnalysis.org + TraceAnalysis.org -
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GI Index (Google Insights for Search) shows that crash dump analysis and debugging slowly decline in popularity:
GI for memory dump analysis searches coincides with the birth of DumpAnalysis.org in later 2006 (the only mystery for me is mid 2005 peak):
The birth of memory dump analysis as a discipline probably reinforced the emergence of memory forensics in the early 2006:
We also see that malware analysis is on the rise and it is not a surprise that DumpAnalysis.org is moving to MARS:
Perhaps mid 2005 peak for memory dump analysis searches coincides with the interest in malware analysis.
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As the new decade is approaching (2011-2020) we would like to make a few previews and predictions:
- Increased complexity of software will bring more methods from biological, social sciences and humanities in addition to existing methods of automated debugging and computer science techniques
- Focus on first fault software problem solving (when aspect)
- Focus on pattern-driven software problem solving (how aspect)
- Fusion of debugging and malware analysis into a unified structural and behavioral pattern framework
- Visual debugging, memory and software trace visualization techniques
- Software maintenance certification
- Focus on domain-driven troubleshooting and debugging tools as a service (debugware TaaS)
- Focus on security issues related to memory dumps and software traces
- New scripting languages and programming language extensions for debugging
- The maturation of the science of memory snapshots and software traces (memoretics)
Imagining is not not limited to the above and more to come and explain in the forthcoming parts.
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This morning it was -2 with lost of snow left from the yesterday spike. Here is Dublin Citrix Office in Eastpoint Business Park as seen from outside:
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The first big one was in January this year: System Freeze in Nature. It is December now and we have the second snowfall in just one year which is the longest and coldest as well. The pictures below were taken 5 days ago when it started with temperatures down to -7 in the morning so we were able to practice only small scale architecture while building a snowman:
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I was flying a kite with my son last month when a short Irish rain suddenly happened. After that we were happy to observe a double rainbow from Salthill (Monkstown):
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Visited Dublin Zoo with my family during last Halloween weekend where my daughter pointed me to this funny message box:
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Designed in Terminal (services) font:
It is now a part of my Twitter profile too.
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Having spent 16 years in software engineering I ventured into software support in 2003 (with 8th year started at the time of this writing). Now it is time for the next gradual shift into software security (the domain I previously had exposure to but not as a primary focus):
The title of this post is borrowed from the book I read from cover to cover long time ago and recently put on my desk again:
Journey of the Software Professional: The Sociology of Software Development
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I now transition to 8 similar to 7-to-8 transition from user to kernel space (new dialectical quality):
switch(years_at_citrix)
{
case 5:
write_blog_post(”I’ve just passed 5 year mark … “);
wait_for_certificate();
write_blog_post(”Shortly after celebrating 5 years … “);
break;
case 6:
write_blog_post(”Threads in my process run very fast. Not long ago … “);
break;
case 7:
write_blog_post(”Transition to kernel mode and space … “);
break;
case 8:
// … TBD
}
I also abandoned monthly counting started earlier because in kernel space time is counted in clock cycles per quantum unit where the latter is 1/3 of a clock tick (Windows Internals, 5th edition, pp. 406 - 408) :-)
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Tool Objects name was motivated by the title of the book Tool and Object: A History and Philosophy of Category Theory
I realized that troubleshooting can be represented as a category of memory states (or collections of proximate states) as objects and troubleshooting tools as arrows.
We can also consider tools as categories with arrows as troubleshooting actions. In the latter case we can model a collection of tools and transformations (morphisms) between them as a functor.
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It’s time to update my old Resume and CV: As a Book that was on sale for almost 2 years to reflect exponential changes in objectives, skills, achievements and deliverables since summer, 2003. Actually the number of pages has doubled. The 2nd edition is planned to be 111th book scheduled for publication in December:
The front cover color follows the proverbs about “green fields” (I also fixed a bug that was on the first edition front cover) 
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I was thinking for some time about applying crash dump analysis patterns (later including software trace analysis patterns and more recently structural memory patterns) to History (one of my favourite study subjects) using metaphorical bijectionism as I tried before with the analysis of project failures. Yesterday I found this book that applies the perspective of patterns in natural sciences to History (according to its description):
Pattern and Repertoire in History
I plan to review the book and highlight the differences and similarities between the authors’ and mine patternist approaches to History.
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When I was a child I experienced dreams where I was carried by a huge wave that was transforming to a torus completely absorbing me up to a breakpoint of my wake up. A year ago I got the book Memory Evolutive Systems
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Today I celebrated 4 years of blogging that resulted in more than 2,000 posts across 8 blogs. I would like to thank everyone for their continuing support!
This blog post belongs to the 5th year of blogging.
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