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Memory Analysis and Debugging Institute develops x86/x64-based certification tracks for Windows and Unix (including Linux / FreeBSD / Mac OS X).
Each track consists of 3 exams, each having its own set of requirements and scope:

• Fundamentals of Memory Dump Analysis
• Intermediate Memory Dump Analysis
• Advanced Memory Dump Analysis

The initiative is supported by OpenTask.

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Written by the founder of DumpAnalysis.org this book is not about bugs or debugging techniques but about background knowledge everyone needs to start experimenting with WinDbg, learn from practical experience and read other advanced debugging books. Solid understanding of fundamentals like pointers is needed to analyze stack traces beyond !analyze -v and lmv WinDbg commands. This is the book to help technical support and escalation engineers and Windows software testers without the knowledge of assembly language to master 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. The book is also useful for software engineers coming from managed code or Java background, engineers coming from non-Wintel environments, Windows C/C++ software engineers without assembly language background, security researchers and beginners learning Windows software disassembling and reverse engineering techniques. This book can also be used as Intel assembly language and Windows debugging supplement for relevant undergraduate level courses.

Product details:

• Title: Windows Debugging: Practical Foundations
• Author: Dmitry Vostokov
• Publisher: Opentask (Paperback, 01 February 2009)
• Publisher: Opentask (Hardcover, 23 March 2009)
• Language: English
• Product Dimensions: 22.86 x 15.24
• ISBN-13: 978-1-906717-10-0 (Paperback)
• ISBN-13: 978-1-906717-67-4 (Hardcover)
• Paperback: 200 pages

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Book reviews:

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DumpAnalysis.org announces forthcoming 2011 - 2020 as

2011 (0x7DB) - 2020 (0x7E4) The Debugging Decade

As one of the new initiatives for the Year of Debugging (2009, 0x7D9) OpenTask starts publishing full color variable page periodical publication called:

Debugged! MZ/PE: MagaZine for/from Practicing Engineers

The only serial publication dedicated entirely to Windows® debugging

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This is a must have book for system administrators of complex Windows server platforms and client workstations to understand and choose the best course of action to address system and application crashes, hangs, CPU spikes and memory leaks. It is also invaluable to general Windows users and technical support engineers.

• Title: Crash Dump Analysis for System Administrators (Windows Edition)
• Authors: Thomas Monahan, Dmitry Vostokov
• Publisher: Opentask (31 July 2009)
• Language: English
• Product Dimensions: 22.86 x 15.24
• ISBN-13: 978-1-906717-02-5
• Paperback: 180 pages

Draft Table of Contents

OpenTask, the publisher of memory dump analysis and debugging books, announces restructuring:

http://www.opentask.com/restructuring-2009

DumpAnalysis.org announces forthcoming 2010 as

2010 (0x7DA) - The Year of Dump Analysis

DumpAnalysis.org accepts hardware such as laptops for reviewing in relation to their suitability for extreme debugging, computer forensics, crash dump analysis and memory visualization. If you work for a H/W company like HP, Apple, Dell, Acer, Sony or any other respectable manufacturer please don't hesitate to forward this post to your management: it could be your company brand or laptop model that debugging and software technical support community community chooses next time of upgrade or for T&D / R&D! H/W reviews will be posted on the main portal page which currently has an audience of more than a hundred thousand unique visitors per year from more than 20,000 network locations (*).

If your company is interested please don't hesitate to use this contact form:

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This is a full color book about postmortem, static and dynamic memory visualization and its current and emerging applications:

• Authors: Jamie Fenton, Dmitry Vostokov
• Paperback: 64 pages
• ISBN-13: 978-1-906717-06-3
• Publisher: Opentask (Q1 2009)
• Language: English
• Product Dimensions: 28 x 21.6

Book cover features a journey to the center of pagefile theme and the discovery of cosmic rays in memory:

This is a forthcoming book about architecture, design and implementation of troubleshooting and debugging tools for software technical support. Preliminary information is:

• Authors: Kapildev Ramlal, Dmitry Vostokov
• Paperback: 256 pages
• ISBN-13: 978-0-9558328-3-3
• Publisher: Opentask (15 November 2008)
• Language: English
• Product Dimensions: 22.86 x 15.24

Front cover:

Draft Table of Contents

Forthcoming Windows® memory analysis and debugging books in Q1, 2009:

• Computer Memory Visualization (ISBN: 978-1906717063)
• Windows® Debugging Notebook: Essential Concepts, WinDbg Commands and Tools (ISBN: 978-1906717001 and 978-0955832857)
• Crash Dump Analysis for System Administrators (ISBN: 978-1906717025)
• Windows® Debugging: Practical Foundations (ISBN: 978-1906717100)
• March issue of Debugged! MZ/PE: MagaZine for/from Practicing Engineers (ISBN: 978-1906717384)
• Reference Stack Traces: Windows Server® 2008 and Windows Vista™ (ISBN: 978-1906717230)
• WinDbg In Use: Debugging Exercises (Elementary and Intermediate Level) (ISBN: 978-1906717506)

Source: New Books Coming Soon in Q1, 2009

DumpAnalysis.org jointly with OpenTask establishes Memory Analysis & Debugging Institute (MA_&D^I)

and appoints Dmitry Vostokov to the office of President.

Includes 60 programmed exercises from real life debugging and crash dump analysis scenarios and multiple-choice questions with full answers, comments and suggestions for further reading.

• Title: WinDbg In Use: Debugging Exercises (Elementary and Intermediate Level)
• Author: Dmitry Vostokov
• Publisher: Opentask (15 March 2009)
• Language: English
• Product Dimensions: 23.5 x 19.1
• ISBN-13: 978-1-906717-50-6
• Paperback: 200 pages

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DLL is also a recursive acronym for DLL List Landscape. This full color book features magnificent images from process user space generated by Dump2Picture:

• Title: DLL List Landscape: The Art from Computer Memory Space
• Author: Dmitry Vostokov
• Publisher: Opentask (15 December 2008)
• Language: English
• Product Dimensions: 21.6 x 21.6
• ISBN-13: 978-1-906717-36-0
• Paperback: 16 pages

Finally Dr. Debugalov adventures are imprinted with bugs inside. The full-color book also features never published before cartoons and a few surprises. It sets a new standard for entertainment in software engineering.

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• Title: Dumps, Bugs and Debugging Forensics: The Adventures of Dr. Debugalov
• Author: Narasimha Vedala
• Editor: Dmitry Vostokov
• Publisher: Opentask (1 December 2008)
• Language: English
• Product Dimensions: 21.6 x 14.0
• ISBN-13: 978-1-906717-25-4
• Paperback: 64 pages

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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

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A book can serve the role of CV but a CV can serve the role of a book. This is an old CV (1987 - 2003) from the founder of DumpAnalysis.org as an example of a person with CV-writing obsession.

• Title: Resume and CV: As a Book
• Author: Dmitry Vostokov
• Publisher: Opentask (01 December 2008)
• Language: English
• Product Dimensions: 28.0 x 21.6
• ISBN-13: 978-1-906717-34-6
• Paperback: 16 pages

The perfect binary gift for your family and friends.

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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.

• Title: Baby Turing
• Authors: Alexandra Vostokova, Dmitry Vostokov
• Publisher: Opentask (01 November 2008)
• Language: English
• Product Dimensions: 21.6 x 21.6
• ISBN-13: 978-1-906717-26-1
• Paperback: 16 pages

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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 January - September 2008 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 second volume features:

- 45 new crash dump analysis patterns
- Pattern interaction and case studies
- Updated checklist
- Fully cross-referenced with Volume 1
- New appendixes

Product information is:

• Title: Memory Dump Analysis Anthology, Volume 2
• Author: Dmitry Vostokov
• Language: English
• Product Dimensions: 22.86 x 15.24

• Paperback: 470 pages
• Publisher: Opentask (03 Oct 2008)
• ISBN-13: 978-0-9558328-7-1

• Hardcover: 470 pages
• Publisher: Opentask (01 Nov 2008)
• ISBN-13: 978-1-906717-22-3

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Back cover features visualized virtual process memory generated from a memory dump of colometric computer memory dating sample using Dump2Picture.

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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 2006 - 2007 for software engineers developing and maintaining products on Windows platforms, quality assurance engineers testing software on Windows platforms, technical support and escalation engineers dealing with complex software issues and general Windows users.

• Title: Memory Dump Analysis Anthology, Volume 1
• Author: Dmitry Vostokov
• Publisher: OpenTask (15 Apr 2008)
• Language: English
• Product Dimensions: 22.86 x 15.24

• Paperback: 720 pages
• ISBN-13: 978-0-9558328-0-2

• Hardcover: 720 pages
• ISBN-13: 978-0-9558328-1-9

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Errata

The back cover image is the picture of TestDefaultDebugger crash dump generated by Dump2Picture

Book reviews:

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Testimonials:

"This book is very good to startup on debugging. It really starts from the basics and it keeps going more in depth. Easy to read and very didactic." - Yuri Diogenes, ISA Server Support Team, Microsoft (Link)

Also available:

• Title: Memory Dump Analysis Anthology Collector's Edition, Volume 1
• Hardcover (full-color): 720 pages
• ISBN-13: 978-1-9067-1701-8