The Korean Edition of Memory Dump Analysis Anthology, Volume 1
Monday, April 5th, 2010I’m very pleased to announce that the Korean edition is available:
The book can be found on:
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Archive for the ‘Memiotics (Memory Semiotics)’ Category
Memory Systems Language (Part 1)
Friday, February 12th, 2010Computer memory analysis is based on interconnected structures of symbols and we state that there exists a memory language that extends a hierarchy of modeling and implementation languages (both domain-specific and general-purpose):
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Forthcoming Memory Dump Analysis Anthology, Volume 4
Thursday, February 11th, 2010This is a revised, edited, cross-referenced and thematically organized volume of selected DumpAnalysis.org blog posts about crash dump analysis and debugging written in July 2009 - January 2010 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 fourth volume features:
- 13 new crash dump analysis patterns
- 13 new pattern interaction case studies
- 10 new trace analysis patterns
- 6 new Debugware patterns and case study
- Workaround patterns
- Updated checklist
- Fully cross-referenced with Volume 1, Volume 2 and Volume 3
- New appendixes
Product information:
- Title: Memory Dump Analysis Anthology, Volume 4
- Author: Dmitry Vostokov
- Language: English
- Product Dimensions: 22.86 x 15.24
- Paperback: 410 pages
- Publisher: Opentask (30 March 2010)
- ISBN-13: 978-1-906717-86-5
- Hardcover: 410 pages
- Publisher: Opentask (30 April 2010)
- ISBN-13: 978-1-906717-87-2
Back cover features memory space art image: Internal Process Combustion.
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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
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.
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The Pyramid of Memory Analysis Institutions
Thursday, December 17th, 2009Previously announced Software Maintenance Institute was finally registered in Ireland (Reg. No. 400906) and its certificate was received yesterday.
Here is the current component structure of various institutions (depicted in UML):
Interface Tags:
IIP Interface of Iterative Publishing
IRD Interface of Research and Development
IDR Interface of Defect Research
IIR Interface of Information Repository
IME Interface of Memetic Engineering
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Memory Dump and Minidumps
Wednesday, September 30th, 2009Welcome to Physicalist Art that has its foundation in Physicalism. The first physicalist composition was on display today and I took a picture of it (weather condition was not good):
Material: blue agate
It was originally called “Blue in a gate: memory dump and minidumps”. I plan to reinstall it again with more elaborate surroundings.
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Forthcoming Memory Dump Analysis Anthology, Volume 3
Saturday, September 26th, 2009This 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.
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Metaphorical Bijectionism: A Method of Inquiry
Monday, September 7th, 2009Consider this example mapping (taken metaphorically from the mathematical notion of an injection) of one domain of knowledge to another:
This mapping between concepts and ideas was once called “bijectivism” but was trivially described either as one to one mapping between two domains (like physical vs. mathematical) or fusing different concepts together to get another emerging concept. I myself proposed the similar mapping and called it a metaphorical bijection.
Now consider another mapping metaphorically equivalent to a mathematical notion of a surjection where all constituents of the second domain are covered metaphorically by the first domain:
What we strive for is to establish the complete bijective mapping and reorganize our knowledge of both domains to achieve that:
In diagrams above small boxes can represent sets of ideas, methods, etc. or individual ideas, methods, etc. The established metaphorical bijection can divide sets or combine them if needed. There can be several such bijections, of course, and we can use other methods of inquiry (for example, the scientific method) to choose between competing metaphorical bijections.
Useful mnemonic:
BEIS (B=I+S or to BE IS …)
Bijectionism Equals Injection + Surjection
Another mnemonic:
BET (B=T or to BE Transformation…)
Bijectionism Equals Transformation
Note also the second letter of Alef-Beis or Alef-Bet, the letter of Light that has interpretation of Creation in Biblical Hebrew.
More on this later as I need to come back to DebugWare patterns.
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Memiotics: a definition
Wednesday, June 18th, 2008Analysis of computer memory snapshots (memory dumps) and their evolution is the domain of memoretics. Computer memory semiotics (memiotics or memosemiotics) is the branch of memoretics that studies the interpretation of computer memory, its meaning, signs and symbols.
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