DLL is also a recursive acronym for DLL List Landscape. OpenTask is going to publish soon the new full color book:
Title: DLL List Landscape: The Art from Computer Memory Space
ISBN-13: 978-1-906717-36-0
More details will be announced tomorrow.
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Previously announced my old Resume and CV as a book was submitted to print and distribution worldwide this morning.
It features UML statechart diagrams on the following front cover I designed myself:
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A book can serve the role of CV but this weekend another idea got into my mind is to publish my old pre-Citrix times CV (1987 - 2003) as a book and as an example of a guy with CV-writing obsession like I had 5 - 8 years ago:
Soon it should appear on Amazon and bookshops around the world. Now when someone asks me to send a CV I can send them a link to buy it. 
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OpenTask, a publisher of my books, is about to release a notebook for bloggers. For details please visit the page:
I found it indispensable to keep track of my own blog post ideas in a hardcopy format, work on several blog transformations into books and simultaneously keep track of work and home-related tasks.
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Noticed that my blog is clearly visible from outside my apartment window even in daylight:
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OpenTask, a publisher of my books, is about to release a notebook for small and self-publishers. It’s title is Title itself. For details please visit the page:
Title: Book Publisher’s Notebook
I found it indispensable to keep track of my own book titles and their book data in a hardcopy format.
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A number of writers expressed their wishes to be a co-author of the forthcoming SF novel Googol Dump. I have selected Dun Bugmons for his name sounding like Dún Laoghaire where I live nearby by walking distance in Monkstown and his surname accidentally reminding me of Bug Monitors. Please join me in congratulating Dun Bugmons!
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Suddenly the course of my publishing activities bended a little to produce a DIY poster and learning cards to be published soon. Here are the product details:
Annotation:
WinDbg is a powerful debugger from Microsoft Debugging Tools for Windows. It has more than 350 commands that can be used in different debugging scenarios. The cover of this book is a poster featuring crash dump analysis checklist and common patterns seen in memory dumps and live debugging sessions. Inside the book you can find ready to cut learning cards with commands and their descriptions coloured according to their use for crash dump or live debugging sessions and user, kernel or complete memory dumps. Tossing cards can create unexpected connections between commands and help to learn them more quickly. Uncut pages can also serve as birds eye view to WinDbg debugging capabilities. More than 350 WinDbg commands including meta-commands and extensions are included.
Front cover:
Back cover:
After you take inside pages out you are left with a cover that you can use as a crash dump analysis checklist and patterns poster:
I also plan to update this book on a yearly basis.
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Science fiction books are among my favourite. I used to read lots of them (in Russian) during my school and university years. Also I started reading science fiction in English 8 years ago upon my arrival to Ireland and one of Asimov’s books about Foundation was my first English fiction book fully read from cover to cover. Now I want to write something fictional related to memory dump analysis and the notion of 3-dimensional memory dumps is a fascinating idea to exploit:
Googol Dump - a 3D memory dump where the 3rd dimension is a time arrow of computational 2D memory snapshots.
Note: one googol is 10100 and this number of bits is sufficient enough to record the full history of memory snapshots for 64-bit, 128-bit, 256-bit and even 1024-bit computers running thousands of years.
The novel is planned to be published next year (ISBN: 978-1906717322) and is written from the perspective of a debugger.
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Previously announced book Crash Dump Analysis for System Administrators and Support Engineers (Windows Edition) has got its draft cover featuring WinDbg output from a kernel memory dump forced by Citrix SystemDump tool.
Front:
Back:
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The perfect binary Christmas gift for your family and friends is soon available on Amazon, B&N and in local bookshops around the world! In the mean time you can view the product information and even order it:
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Finally, previously announced book Baby Turing was released to manufacture. It is co-authored with my daughter and dedicated to my son. The short book annotation:
The genius of Albert Einstein was revolutionary in understanding reality of hardware (semantics of nature) but the genius of Alan Turing was revolutionary in understanding virtuality of software (syntax of computation). This book fills the gap in children’s literature and introduces binary arithmetic to babies.
The front cover:
The back cover:
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Paperback edition of Memory Dump Analysis Anthology, Volume 2 is finally available on Amazon
Listmania! Crash Dump Analysis and Debugging
Hardcover edition will be available on Amazon and B&N in 2-3 weeks.
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I’ve just passed 5 year mark in my Citrix career and I say those years were really exciting! Incidentally at the same time, on 14th of October 2003 I started doing true memory dump analysis in WinDbg-sense of it despite the fact that I’d been doing debugging since 1987 and encountered the first symbolic assembly language debugger on PDP-11 RSX-11M Russian clone in 1988. Also 5 years ago I made my transition from software engineering world to software technical support and started my journey to become a manager.
I’ve put a timeline on a portal accessible from the main page or from the following link:
http://www.dumpanalysis.org/Timeline
The timeline will help me in the future to write my memoirs (Crash Dump: A Software Engineering Autobiography, ISBN: 978-1906717193).
Finally, to record the glorious Citrixofication of the world by various Citrixware, Opentask decided to publish a book where I plan to be an editor of various contributors and probably write a chapter or two myself:
Discovering Citrixware (ISBN: 978-1906717278)
It is not about troubleshooting but more in a sense of discovery. More details will be announced later.
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“Everything is memory dump.”
I’m very excited to announce that Volume 2 is available in paperback, hardcover and digital editions:
Memory Dump Analysis Anthology, Volume 2
In one or two weeks paperback edition should also appear on Amazon and other bookstores. Amazon hardcover edition is planned to be available by the end of October.
I’m often asked when Volume 3 is available and I currently plan to release it in October - November, 2009. In the mean time I’m planning to concentrate on other publishing projects.
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The book is nearly finished and here is the final TOC:
Memory Dump Analysis Anthology, Volume 2: Table of Contents
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Here you can find the draft TOC for the forthcoming book “DebugWare: The Art and Craft of Writing Troubleshooting and Debugging Tools”:
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Finally Dr. Debugalov adventures are going to be imprinted with bugs inside. This full-color book features never published before cartoons and a few surprises. It sets a new standard for entertainment in software engineering.
The cover was designed by Narasimha Vedala.
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Here is the draft front cover for the forthcoming Windows Debugging Notebook:
It is based on Debugging Book Stack concept.
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“Crash dumps are fossils”
Here is the draft TOC for the previously announced book Crash Dump Analysis for System Administrators and Support Engineers (Windows Edition) which I’m co-authoring with Thomas Monahan, a Lead Escalation Engineer at Citrix Systems:
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