Software Diagnostics Library

I aim to make Debugged! MZ/PE a quarterly publication and the next issue is to be by the end of June. Its main topic is  modeling software bugs:

Debugged! MZ/PE: Modeling Software Defects, June, 2009 (ISBN: 978-1906717681)

If you have an article idea or if you’d like to write an article for this issue please use the following contact form:

http://www.dumpanalysis.org/contact

The deadline is June 15. 

Here is the draft front cover:

The back cover remains secret until release and will feature tips on debugging.

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Monthly summary of my Literate Scientist blog:

A First Course in String Theory

The Strangest Man

This Is Biology

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Andreas Zeller to publish the second edition of his book this summer:

Why Programs Fail, Second Edition: A Guide to Systematic Debugging

I really enjoyed reading the first edition a few years ago, liked the fact that he uses mathematics to prove propositions of delta debugging, illustrate memory graphs and cause-effect chains. I’m looking forward to reading the second edition.

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The paperback version of the book Windows Debugging: Practical Foundations has been temporarily out of print since the last week but this should be resolved very soon in a few days. OpenTask also submitted to print a hardcover version (ISBN: 978-1906717674) and it should be available for sale by the end of this week.

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I’m very proud to announce that my first 2 volumes of Memory Dump Analysis Anthology are to be translated and published in the Republic of Korea this year:

http://www.opentask.com/korean-rights-mdaa-v1-v2

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Long time ago a professor of mathematical analysis told me a joke about reading comprehension levels:

Level 1: You feel good while reading

Level 2: You can repeat what you’ve read

Level 3: You can refute what you’ve read

After looking at some books on my shelves that I bought last month including 11 volume history of philosophy I would like to add

Level 0: You feel good before reading

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Yesterday I submitted the magazine to print and distribution world-wide. If everything is right it should be available by the end of this month. This first issue features 12 page WinDbg command supplement to pattern-driven memory dump analysis methodology, an overview of Win32dd complete memory dumper and PowerDbg enhancements to debug ASP.NET code. The magazine will only be available in print.

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During the last week of March I’m planning to take a break to write a mini-treatise explaining my dangerous idea in detail:

Parameterized Science: Universal Memory Dumps and the Grand Unification (ISBN: 978-1906717650)

This full color small publication should appear in print by the end of April and start an iterative and incremental publishing thread in philosophy.

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Today I found this book in a local bookshop but didn’t buy it because I couldn’t find enough dangerous ideas in it: 

What Is Your Dangerous Idea?: Today’s Leading Thinkers on the Unthinkable

So I give my own dangerous idea in return: in the future, all sciences, engineering and technology will be ultimately fused and concerned with universal memory dumps of empirical data where appropriate symbol files will be used for every science as we know today, these files called science files. The set of science files can be considered as a parameter, hence the name of this idea. In another words, there will be one Science of memory dump analysis and many sciences. All sciences will be finally unified.

Now the question. Would it be also possible to discover new sciences by finding a suitable set of science files corresponding to a collected dump of empirical data?

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I was passing by a local bookstore on my way to the office a few days ago and bought this book:

Hitler’s Private Library: The Books That Shaped His Life

The title of the book prompted me to think about books that shaped my life and thought. Here is the list of 9 books:

Before school:

1. The Hobbit (in Russian translation)

At school before university:

2. The Feynman Lectures on Physics (in Russian translation)

3. A short book with the title if translated to English: ”Electron through the Eyes of a Chemist: Essays on Modern Quantum Chemistry” by I. Dmitriev. Seems not available in English.

4. Mathematics: The Loss of Certainty (in Russian translation)
 

At university:

5. C Programming Language (in Russian translation)

After university but before moving to Ireland:

6. Advanced CORBA Programming with C++

7. UML Distilled: A Brief Guide to the Standard Object Modeling Language

Last 3-4 years:

8. Becoming a Technical Leader: An Organic Problem-Solving Approach

9. Life Itself: A Comprehensive Inquiry into the Nature, Origin, and Fabrication of Life

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I’m sorry to announce that the book has been delayed and the publication date has been changed to 30th of November, 2009. I promise this delay is the last one and kindly ask you to be patient. As a bonus or compensation for it, the book will also cover Windows 7.

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Every debugging engineer needs to know how the code is interpreted or compiled. Debugging complex problems or doing memory analysis on general-purpose operating systems often requires understanding the syntax and semantics of several programming languages and their run-time support. The knowledge of optimization techniques is also important for low-level debugging when the source code is not available. The following book provides an overview of all important concepts and discusses almost 50 languages. I read the first edition 6 years ago and I liked it so much that I’m now reading the second edition.

Programming Language Pragmatics, Second Edition

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A new book is planned by OpenTask with the following preliminary details:

State and Event: Categorical Foundations of Being and Time (ISBN: 978-1906717643)

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Just found on Amazon this forthcoming book:

Windows® Sysinternals Administrator’s Reference (Inside Out)

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Monthly summary of my Management Bits and Tips blog including January posts:

Management Bit and Tip 0×2000

Management Bit and Tip 0×4000

A Thread Was Killed 

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Monthly summary of my Literate Scientist blog including January reviews:

Blog Anniversary

Social Sciences as Sorcery

Literate Scientists and Their Books

Reality Rules

A Brief History of Theology

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Looked this evening at Amazon and found that the book achieved #1 status (although it might not be the case at the time when you are reading this post):

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One of the good outcomes of the previously announced restructuring: the book Crash Dump Analysis for System Administrators (Windows edition) has been prioritized to be published on 30th of November, 2009 due to the overwhelming demand. The book will soon be available for pre-orders.

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Noticed today on Amazon that my book becomes more expensive after being used:

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The book is available for ordering from Amazon with a significant discount:

Windows Debugging: Practical Foundations

Although listed as temporarily out of stock at the time of this writing it should appear in stock in a few days. Search Inside is also enabled.

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