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Finally, the front cover has materialized for this issue of Debugged! magazine:

Debugged! MZ/PE: Software Tracing (ISBN: 978-1906717797)

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

http://www.dumpanalysis.org/contact

The deadline for this issue is 25th of September.

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This Sunday while drinking Turkish coffee (after 3 years of blogging) I was thinking about the new publishing year starting in September, the new year of reading (already started) and, in particular, about the cover of the forthcoming September issue of Debugged! MZ/PE magazine (to be revealed tonight).

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Finally the book came through the publishing process and is available on Amazon and other bookstores:

x64 Windows Debugging: Practical Foundations

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Today I celebrate 3 years of blogging that resulted in 1,430 posts across 8 blogs. I would like to thank everyone for their continuing support!

The updated timeline

This blog post belongs to the 4th year of blogging. 

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Errata for the previous book Windows Debugging: Practical Foundations has been published:

Errata

Next week the updated version (revision 2.0) should be available on Amazon and other stores for both paperback and hardback titles. Digital version on Lulu has already been updated.

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The digital version of the book is finally available:

x64 Windows Debugging: Practical Foundations

Paperback should be available in 1-2 weeks on Amazon and other stores. When working on the book I fixed errors in the previous x86 version. Errata file for it should be available tomorrow.

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OpenTask plans to expand its Practical Foundations series and publish the following 2 books for the forthcoming Memory Dump Analysis Fundamentals certification (Unix track) being developed by Memory Analysis and Debugging Institute:

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Here is the front cover for the forthcoming book X64 Windows Debugging: Practical Foundations (ISBN: 978-1906717568):

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Noticed today that it is still one of the top bestselling debugging books on Amazon:

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Finally the issue is available on Amazon and through other sellers:

Debugged! MZ/PE: Modeling Software Defects

I’m now planning the September issue and post details later. 

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The idea to have a reading notebook online came to me after I recalled that at school I heard that Lenin had Philosophical Notebooks. You can find them in Lenin Internet Library, volume 38 of his Collected Works. As a schoolboy, I was curious about Lenin’s notebooks and even borrowed them from the school library to see how they looked like inside. I wasn’t impressed though due to the lack of philosophical knowledge on my side but the idea stuck to my mind. At my school age I read his biography several times and my favourite episode was an assassination attempt by socialist revolutionary Fanny Kaplan.

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Found today on Amazon that one seller sells cheap chopped copies of Memory Dump Analysis Anthology:

“The LOWEST PRICE because the spine binding & glue has been CHOPPED OFF; the binding is MISSING; this makes the loose pages suitable for photocopying or for hole punching to place into a 3-ring notebook. The pages have no marks or highlights. I also have Volume 2 with a cut spine for cheap.”

The seller has been contacted to stop this advertisement because the page number 2 in both volumes says:

You must not circulate this book in any other binding or cover and you must impose the same condition on any acquirer.

There is also the standard clause about reproduction and storage.

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The second issue of the magazine was put into production today and should be available after one or two weeks on Amazon, B&N and other booksellers worldwide.

Title: Debugged! MZ/PE: Modeling Software Defects
Authors: Konstantin Chebotarev, Kapildev Ramlal, Dmitry Vostokov
ISBN: 1906717680
ISBN-13: 978-1906717681
Annotation: Welcome to the second issue of Debugged! MZ/PE magazine! It brings fault injection into new light and features articles discussing software defect construction via DLL injection, modeling CPU spikes and runaway exception processing. This issue also includes a memory dump analysis certification voucher. Back cover features WinDbg breakpoint and tracing command summary for easy desk reference. - Dmitry Vostokov - Editor-in-Chief

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I recently started posting book reviews on Amazon and re-posting them from my blogs. Previously I didn’t do that because I thought that Amazon acquired exclusive rights for submitted reviews but I wanted to include my selected reviews in my own books and on my own websites. Recently I read its small print and found that Amazon rights are non-exclusive. Of course, I take advantage and promote my blogs in book reviews that have the following form:

Review text …

Thanks,
Dmitry Vostokov
Founder of …
[Editor-in-Chief of …]

Software engineering book reviews point to DumpAnalysis Portal and Software Generalist blog, science, history and general non-fiction book reviews point to Literate Scientist blog, management book reviews point to Management Bits and Tips blog. I found already that people Google these blogs to find out who’s that guy and the number of visitors to my other blogs has doubled.

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Following the success of Windows Debugging: Practical Foundations the following title will be published this summer:

Windows Device Drivers: Practical Foundations (ISBN: 978-0955832840)

Table of contents will be posted later.

Other planned titles:

X64 Windows Debugging: Practical Foundations (ISBN: 978-1906717568) 

Windows Multithreading: Practical Foundations (ISBN: 978-1906717742)

 Like Windows Debugging book, these forthcoming titles are based on my seminars. 

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This is the main topic of the forthcoming next issue of Debugged MZ/PE magazine. The most close term is called “fault injection” but I rediscovered it as a “software defect construction”, “software defect simulation” or “software defect modeling”. The latter term is also used to refer to construction of mathematical models related to software product quality and corresponding statistics but “modeling software defects” seems appropriate subtitle for the magazine front cover picture… Software defect construction is more general term than fault injection. The latter is used for testing but we want to simulate bugs and abnormal system conditions to study debugging and memory dump analysis techniques or to build reproduction environments. I actually recently found and bought the used copy of this book:

Software Fault Injection: Inoculating Programs Against Errors

and plan to write my own book with the following working title later:

Software Defect Construction: Simulation and Modeling of Software Bugs (ISBN: 978-1906717759)

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I was delighted to know that my books in paperback editions will be available in minutes via Espresso Book Machine: Source. You can read more about this ATM book machine from its inventor:

http://www.ondemandbooks.com/home.htm

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DumpAnalysis.org has changed its book store to Amazon aStore to incorporate all published OpenTask books, magazines and notebooks:

Here is the direct link:

Dump Analysis Portal Store

The screenshot:

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Instead of publishing another philosophical treatise ”On …”, OpenTask, iterative and incremental publisher, plans to release my collection of bugtations in somewhat extended version by the end of this summer:  

On Debugging: Bugtations and Other Humorous Quotations (ISBN: 978-1906717285)

The book also includes short biographical notes, commentaries and relevant explanations. Hope you would enjoy it. 

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This is a forthcoming book to be released next year after we finally publish DebugWare book by the end of this summer:

Software Tracing and Logging: Architecture, Design, Implementation and Analysis Patterns (ISBN: 978-1906717728)

I have already begun working on it in the background. The scope of DebugWare book is too wide to cover tracing and logging in great detail not to mention the very important subject of software trace analysis.

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