Opentask plans to publish full-color children’s book series called “Baby Turing”:
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After writing about large heap allocations I updated the sample chapter for Windows Debugging Notebook:
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Album cover and songs list from Narasimha Vedala:
DUMPSTATIC
Dr. Debugalov Feat.
Assembly Crooks and
E.I.P. Wailers.
1. Mistah Dumpstatic Feat. E.I.P Wailers.
2. Attached to your pros-ass.
3. I put a dump on you.
4. Be my debugger.
5. When push comes to shove, call Debugalov.
6. Pop ECX Feat. Assembly Crooks.
7. You corrupted my memory Feat. E.I.P Wailers.
8. Dark side of the dump.
9. Sweet Dump o’mine.
10. Optimize your soul.
11. Load address blues Feat. Assembly Crooks.
12. Good bye, Kernel.
Some music for this album will be written with the help of Dump2Wave technology 
Stay statically tuned to further announcements.
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Previously announced Windows Debugging: Practical Foundations book has got its front cover done in classic B/W style. A bit frightening, but shouldn’t stop if someone is determined to learn field debugging
Please let me know what do you think. Table of contents to be published next week.
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Yesterday I sent to print the first draft version with finalized covers for editing in situ. I usually do editing on the real book. Then error corrections and layout improvements can be done in real WYSIWYG hardcopy book mode. What’s new in Volume 2:
- 45 new crash dump analysis patterns
- Pattern interaction and case studies
- Updated checklist
- Fully cross-referenced with Volume 1
- New appendixes
I aim to publish paperback and digital versions on the 3st of October and hardcover version on the 1st of November. Table of Contents will be announced in soon.
Here’s the book cover:
Back cover features visualized virtual process memory generated from a memory dump of colorimetric computer memory dating sample using Dump2Picture.
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The publisher Opentask has got its own website:
Please don’t hesitate to visit and comment
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Finally I decided to translate selected blog posts into Russian language to make them available for Russian search engines and additionally improve, or better to say, restore my native language skills because I have been reading and writing mostly in English for the last 8 years:
I also hope that the ongoing translation will help me in the future to publish Memory Dump Analysis Anthology in Russian language.
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Previously I noticed that it reached #1 bestseller status in Assembly Language Programming category but today I see it #1 bestseller in Debugging category:
| Books > Computers & Internet > Programming > Languages & Tools > Debugging |
| Books > Computers & Internet > Programming > Languages & Tools > Assembly Language Programming |
And again, I remind that because the status is updated every hour you might not see the same status when you read this post 
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Just came from Russia where in the woods of Udmurtia I found this bug:
It will be on a front page of one of my forthcoming books scheduled by the end of August.
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In July-August Opentask publisher plans to have its own website. In the mean time here is the additional list of books to be published in the next 5-7 years starting from 2009 onwards:
- Memiotics (ISBN-13: 978-1906717087)
- Voice Recognition: Command and Control (ISBN-13: 978-1906717094)
- Memory Analysis: An Interdisciplinary Approach (ISBN-13: 978-1906717117)
- Deep Down C++ (ISBN-13: 978-1906717124)
- Management Bits: An Anthology from Reductionist Manager (ISBN-13: 978-1906717131)
- Classical, Quantum and Nonlinear Memoretics (ISBN-13: 978-1906717186)
- Crash Dump: A Software Engineering Autobiography (ISBN-13: 978-1906717193)
- Memoidealism: A New Kind of Philosophy (ISBN-13: 978-1906717209)
including 10-volume edition of Software Engineering Notebooks:
- Software Engineering Notebooks, Volume 1 (ISBN-13: 978-1906717148)
Details will be announced later on the publisher’s website.
Note: the book about voice recognition stands apart from the others. This is actually the title of the first book I wanted to write 5 years ago.
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I’m thinking big for a full-color book to celebrate the forthcoming anniversary of Memory Dump Analysis Anthology. Preliminary details:
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The work for Memory Dump Analysis Anthology, Volume 2 is underway and it is natural to use the modular structure of a book heap again for its front cover. Now it is the partial reading list for this year (click to enlarge):
In addition to memory dump allegory the picture also symbolizes kernel / user space split of 4Gb virtual address space :-) Of course, this is just the base image and the book title will be put somewhere on it.
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Many people expressed interest in expanding Practical Foundations of Debugging (x64) and merging it with commented version of Practical Foundations of Debugging (x86) and Reading Windows-based Code. I therefore decided to dedicate some time during the next two months for this task and publish a book. Its main purpose is to help technical support and escalation engineers, testers and software developers without the knowledge of assembly language and C to master all necessary prerequisites to understand and start debugging and crash dump analysis on Windows platforms. It doesn’t require any specific knowledge, fills the gap and lowers the learning curve required for Advanced Windows Debugging and for my own books. It will also serve as a hardware complement to my seminars that I give from time to time. More details will be posted later but for now there are preliminary product details:
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Motivated by The Science of Sherlock Holmes I plan to write a book about the history of debugging with the following preliminary product details and tentative release date (which may come earlier if I have enough time):
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More books to come in 2009. One of them is full-color book illustrated with beautiful visual images emerging from inherent modularized structure of modern operating systems and applications. Preliminary product details:
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Full-color special edition is available now. PART 6: Fun with Crash Dumps that features memory dump visualization pictures is the most impressive there. All screenshots and diagrams are color too. The book is thicker, heavier and much more expensive. Print on demand color books are very pricey. It is only available on Lulu because my Ingram distributor, Lightning Source, doesn’t print color books with more than 480 pages:
Memory Dump Analysis Anthology Collector’s Edition, Volume 1
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Motivated by the following book title that I bought a month ago:
The Oxford Book of Modern Science Writing
I decided to convert my library into a beautifully illustrated color book called
The Opentask Guide to Modern Software Engineering Writing
I plan to update it yearly with new titles that come to my attention. The first edition is planned for this summer and has the following draft product details:
Draft table of contents and sample chapter will be posted soon.
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01:00 am 24.05 I noticed it reached #1 bestseller status in Assembly Language Programming category:
| Books > Computers & Internet > Programming > Languages & Tools > Assembly Language Programming |
Because the status is updated hourly you might not see the same status when you read this post
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The book has finally made it through Google Search program and is available for search here:
http://www.google.com/books?id=RR5whfK1BYsC
Also, yesterday I approved the hardcover version for distribution on Amazon and it should be available there in a week or so.
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The following books helped me immensely to get up to speed with self-publishing.
This book shows the power of write-page(s)-a-day process where writing incrementally adds up to a book.
The book recommends to register as a publisher and use Lightning Source as POD printer and distribution channel.
Use Microsoft Word to prepare your book. Very good chapters about indexing and cover design. The latter can be created in MS Word too!
POD People: Beating the Print-on-Demand Stigma
This is the book that I recently discovered and read. Although the author discusses POD in the context of fiction publishing it has some good points to remember even if you self-publish professional and technical books. It recommends to use Lulu as POD printer and distributor. I find it useful if you plan to publish one book only. However if you plan to be a full-blown publisher you should use POD services for publishers like Lightning Source.
Hope this helps. I’m also reading other self-publishing and marketing books at the moment and will post reviews of them soon.
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