Archive for the ‘Training and Seminars’ Category
Tuesday, November 25th, 2008
As one of the new initiatives for the Year of Debugging DumpAnalysis Portal will publish bimonthly full color 16 page publication called:
Debugged! MZ/PE: MagaZine for/from Practicing Engineers
The only serial publication dedicated entirely to Windows® debugging
The first issue is planned for March, 2009 and will have ISBN-13: 978-1-906717-38-4. If it goes well I’m planning to have ISSN number assigned to it too. More details will be announced soon.
- Dmitry Vostokov @ DumpAnalysis.org -
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Monday, November 10th, 2008
When we have tool commands that sound similar to English words like common root French or German vocabulary to English why not to leverage time-proven foreign language learning techniques:
WinDbg: A Reference Poster and Learning Cards
- Dmitry Vostokov @ DumpAnalysis.org -
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Monday, November 10th, 2008
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.
- Title: WinDbg: A Reference Poster and Learning Cards
- Authors: Dmitry Vostokov
- Publisher: Opentask (20 November 2008)
- Language: English
- Product Dimensions: 28.0 x 21.6
- ISBN-13: 978-1-906717-29-2
- Paperback: 20 pages
Book Excerpt
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.
- Dmitry Vostokov @ DumpAnalysis.org -
Posted in Announcements, Books, Crash Dump Analysis, Crash Dump Patterns, Debugging, Publishing, Software Technical Support, Tools, Training and Seminars, WinDbg Scripts, WinDbg Tips and Tricks, WinDbg for GDB Users | 3 Comments »
Friday, October 31st, 2008
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:
- Dmitry Vostokov @ DumpAnalysis.org -
Posted in Announcements, Books, Citrix, Crash Dump Analysis, Crash Dumps for Dummies, Minidump Analysis, Publishing, Security, Software Technical Support, Testing, Tools, Training and Seminars, Vista, WinDbg Tips and Tricks, Windows Server 2008 | No Comments »
Saturday, October 18th, 2008
Paperback edition of Memory Dump Analysis Anthology, Volume 2 is finally available on Amazon
and Barnes & Noble. Search Inside is also available on Amazon. In addition, I updated the list of recommended books:
Listmania! Crash Dump Analysis and Debugging
Hardcover edition will be available on Amazon and B&N in 2-3 weeks.
- Dmitry Vostokov @ DumpAnalysis.org -
Posted in Announcements, Assembly Language, Books, Bugchecks Depicted, CDF Analysis Tips and Tricks, Certification, Citrix, Common Mistakes, Crash Dump Analysis, Crash Dump Patterns, Crash Dumps for Dummies, Data Recovery, DebugWare Patterns, Debugging, Fun with Crash Dumps, Hardware, Kernel Development, Memory Analysis Forensics and Intelligence, Memory Dump Analysis Jobs, Memory Visualization, Minidump Analysis, Music for Debugging, New Words, Philosophy, Publishing, Science of Memory Dump Analysis, Security, Software Architecture, Software Technical Support, Stack Trace Collection, Testing, Tools, Training and Seminars, Troubleshooting Methodology, Virtualization, Vista, WinDbg Scripts, WinDbg Tips and Tricks, WinDbg for GDB Users, Windows Server 2008 | No Comments »
Saturday, October 11th, 2008
Seems railroad to it was a success: just got this message in my e-mail:
“Congratulations on passing your recent Microsoft Certification exam, inspiring confidence for your employer, your peers, and yourself with a widely-recognized validation of your skills on Microsoft technology.“
Because I haven’t done any exam since Windows Internals beta I assumed that I passed it and I was right! After registering at Microsoft certification site as MCP I was able to build my logo:
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Here is the link to Exam 70-660 information and required skills:
http://www.microsoft.com/learning/en/us/Exams/70-660.aspx
- Dmitry Vostokov @ DumpAnalysis.org -
Posted in Announcements, Assembly Language, Bugchecks Depicted, Certification, Citrix, Crash Dump Analysis, Debugging, Hardware, Kernel Development, Memory Analysis Forensics and Intelligence, Minidump Analysis, Software Technical Support, Tools, Training and Seminars, WinDbg Tips and Tricks | 6 Comments »
Friday, October 3rd, 2008
“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.
- Dmitry Vostokov @ DumpAnalysis.org -
Posted in Announcements, Assembly Language, Books, Bugchecks Depicted, CDF Analysis Tips and Tricks, Citrix, Common Mistakes, Crash Dump Analysis, Crash Dump Patterns, Crash Dumps for Dummies, Data Recovery, DebugWare Patterns, Debugging, Fun with Crash Dumps, Kernel Development, Memory Analysis Forensics and Intelligence, Memory Dump Analysis Jobs, Memory Visualization, Minidump Analysis, Music for Debugging, New Words, Philosophy, Publishing, Science of Memory Dump Analysis, Security, Software Architecture, Software Technical Support, Stack Trace Collection, Testing, Tools, Training and Seminars, Troubleshooting Methodology, Virtualization, Vista, WinDbg Scripts, WinDbg Tips and Tricks, WinDbg for GDB Users, Windows Server 2008 | No Comments »
Friday, June 20th, 2008
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:
- Title: Windows Debugging: Practical Foundations
- Author: Dmitry Vostokov
- Publisher: Opentask (01 February 2009)
- Language: English
- Product Dimensions: 22.86 x 15.24
- ISBN-13: 978-1-906717-10-0
- Paperback: 200 pages
- Dmitry Vostokov @ DumpAnalysis.org -
Posted in Announcements, Assembly Language, Books, Crash Dump Analysis, Crash Dumps for Dummies, Debugging, Publishing, Software Technical Support, Training and Seminars, WinDbg for GDB Users | 3 Comments »
Thursday, June 12th, 2008
I decided to post selected crash dumps for some case studies and patterns after getting feedback from readers of my MDAA book. They are custom made from my toy programs and preprocessed to clear sensitive information that might have leaked from my home computers otherwise. They can be found at the following public FTP address:
ftp://dumpanalysis.org/pub/
The first example was published today for Missing Component (static linking) pattern. I also created the following page to list them all including the ones that I add for some previously published patterns:
Memory Dump File Samples
- Dmitry Vostokov @ DumpAnalysis.org -
Posted in Announcements, Crash Dump Analysis, Debugging, Training and Seminars | 2 Comments »