Software Diagnostics Library

Memorianity soon to publish its Testament with 7 microkernel prophecies, childhood universal memory dump visions of its founder, the recollection of a conversion and other supporting materials. This full color scripture is small to carry around:

Title: Memory Religion: A Testament
ISBN-13: 978-1906717476
Pages: 24

The cover image is an allegorical interpretation of the concept of the Original Defect:

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On the next day in Townley Hall library, after submitting Volume 3 of Memory Dump Analysis to print:

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“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. 

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Previously 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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Finally, after the long delay, the issue is available in print on Amazon and through other sellers:

Debugged! MZ/PE: Software Tracing

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I’m very pleased to announce that Dan Skwire’s unique book has been published by OpenTask:

First Fault Software Problem Solving: A Guide for Engineers, Managers and Users

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I plan to publish a gigabyte. The book cover and data can be found here:

Gigabyte product information

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I have created Book Errata page at this address:

http://www.dumpanalysis.org/MDAA-Volume2-Errata

The link to it has also been added to the main book ad page:

Memory Dump Analysis Anthology, Volume 2

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As a dual to my previous Resume and CV: As a Book (it actually has a “bug” on the cover, try to spot it) I plan to publish the long time memories in the following book next year:

My Failed Job Interviews: Reflections on 50 Percent (ISBN: 978-1906717889)

The recollections of my pre-memory dump analysis era span East and West, small and giant software companies, full time and part time, office and remote job positions, direct and recruitment company hiring, phone and on-site, technical and business interviews.

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To commemorate 200 years since Darwin’s birth and 150 years since the publication of The Origin of Species, OpenTask plans to dedicate December, 2009 issue of Debugged! MZ/PE magazine to taxonomy and evolution of software defects and March, 2010 issue to multithreading (as natural selection).

Debugged! MZ/PE: Systematics and Evolution of Software Defects, December, 2009 (Paperback, ISBN: 978-1906717827)

Debugged! MZ/PE: Multithreading, March, 2010 (Paperback, ISBN: 978-1906717834)

Here are draft front covers designed during last weekend:

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The best of artistic work commissioned by OpenTask to be published with annotations in the following book scheduled to open 2010, The Year of The Foundation of Debugging (Crash Dump Analysis):

Spikes, Hangs, Crashes, Leaks and Dumps of Imagination: The Art of the Debugging Art (ISBN: 978-1906717841)

Note: This is not a book about natural computer memory visualization.

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I always carry my blogging notebook with me. A few weeks ago I was pictured while trying to reach it and write down one of ideas that usually spring to my mind during nature and family walks:

I plan to update The Perfect Gift for a Blogger in Q1, 2010 taking into account my year long experience with it and various accumulated suggestions. It will also have a short Twitter section.

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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 -

I noticed previously that WDPF book gains value after being used but didn’t anticipate the scale of price value leak and spike. Today I noticed that used books gain even more value and now cost more than gold, platinum and iridium (note that the first seller’s price is one cent cheaper, really a super book deal):

- Dmitry Vostokov @ DumpAnalysis.org - 

Today one colleague asked me why my books are no longer #1 and #2. Here is my explanation:

Amazon sales rank is updated hourly. If someone buys a book or two now the rating goes up. The most important thing that some books are top for a long time periodically. I see MDAA Volume 1 from time to time on top for 1.5 years. Many books become bestsellers once (after a one time marketing effort or due to the novelty effect) and then never recover again.

I set up the following widget for top debugging and windows debugging books:

http://www.dumpanalysis.org/debugging-bestsellers

http://www.dumpanalysis.org/windows-debugging-bestsellers
 
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I plan the following titles to be published in Q4:

- Debugged! MZ/PE: Software Tracing, September, 2009 (ISBN: 978-1906717797)
- Windows Debugging Notebook: Essential Concepts, WinDbg Commands and Tools (ISBN: 978-1906717001)
- Memory Dump Analysis Anthology, Volume 3 (ISBN: 978-1906717438 and 978-1906717445)
- Memory Dump Analysis Anthology: Color Supplement for Volumes 1-3 (ISBN: 978-1906717698)
- First Fault Software Problem Solving: A Guide for Engineers, Managers and Users (ISBN: 978-1906717421) by Dan Skwire
- Crash Dump Analysis for System Administrators and Support Engineers (Windows Edition)  (ISBN: 978-1906717025) 

The title of the latter book was slightly changed. After some time we realized that the same material is appropriate for support engineers as well.

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Some users and fans were asking why many announced books are delayed and delayed. The answer is very simple: I am a full time employee of Citrix Systems,  prioritize my job first and put books and blogs at the end of the priority chain. However, I have now reserved 2-3 hours every evening to finish a few books and my next blog post announces which of them are scheduled for Q4 this Year of Debugging.

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Occasionally I check my books to see how they are positioned on Amazon and noticed that Windows Debugging: Practical Foundations and Memory Dump Analysis Anthology, Volume 1 paperback titles are #1 and #2 bestsellers (at the time of this writing) on Amazon Debugging and Assembly Language Programming bestselling lists:

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Responding to numerous requests and suggestions I plan to make magazine interior excluding promotional vouchers available for free download. If someone needs covers including back covers where I put tips and tables to be used as posters or certification vouchers printed inside then they should buy the magazine from Amazon or other bookshops.

This initiative will be accompanied by a smart marketing trick that I plan to unveil in a few days together with the magazine website.

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Shortly after being published, x64 Windows Debugging: Practical Foundations book rises to the top of Amazon debugging bestesellers list (on 22:30 19.08.09):

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