Create a black box inside your software to solve problems on their first occurrence. Don’t be with incomplete data at the time of your (software) crashes.

Read about solving problems on their FIRST occurrence while emphasizing software supportability and serviceability:

First Fault Software Problem Solving Book

Release the first beta version of EasyDbg

Release the first beta version of CARE (Crash Analysis Report Environment) for a pattern-driven debugger log analyzer with standards for structured audience-driven reports

Release the first beta version of STARE (Software Trace Analysis Report Environment) for a pattern-driven software trace analyzer with corresponding standards for structured audience-driven reports

Publish the following books on dump analysis that address different audiences (general users, system administrators, support and escalation engineers, testers, software engineers, security and software defect researchers):

- Windows Debugging Notebook
- Crash Dump Analysis for System Administrators and Support Engineers
- Memory Dump Analysis Anthology, Volume 4
- Memory Dump Analysis Anthology, Volume 5
- Memory Dump Analysis Anthology Color Supplement
- Principles of Memory Dump Analysis
- My Computer Crashes and Freezes: A Non-technical Guide to Software and Hardware Errors
- Linux, FreeBSD and Mac OS X Debugging: Practical Foundations
- Encyclopedia of Crash Dump Analysis Patterns
- WinDbg In Use: Debugging Exercises

Publish articles related to memory dump analysis in Debugged! magazine

Update WinDbg Poster and Cards

The Year of Debugging, 0x7D9, was a remarkable year for DumpAnalysis.org. Here is the list of achievements to report:

- Software Trace Analysis as a new discipline with its own set of patterns

- Unification of Memory Dump Analysis with Software Trace Analysis (DA+TA)

- New computer memory dump-based art movements: Opcodism and Physicalist Art

- Discovery of 3D computer memory visualization techniques

- Establishing Software Maintenance Institute

- Broadening software fault injection as Software Defect Construction discipline

- Establishing a new profession of a Software Defect Researcher

- Starting ambitious Dictionary of Debugging

- Publishing Windows Debugging: Practical Foundations book

- Publishing the first x86-free Windows debugging book: x64 Windows Debugging: Practical Foundations

- Establishing the new debugging magazine: Debugged! MZ/PE

- Publishing Memory Dump Analysis Anthology, Volume 3

- Cooperation with OpenTask to promote First Fault Software Problem Solving book

- Establishing Debugging Expert(s) Magazine Online

- Creating the first development process for debugging and software troubleshooting tools: RADII

- Publishing the first pattern-driven memory dump analysis troubleshooting methodology as a foundation for software debugging

- Proposal for an International Memory Analysts and Debuggers Day

- Almost completed Windows Debugging Notebook to be published soon

- The founder of DumpAnalysis.org (Dr. DebugLove) becomes a member of Citrix Systems Tweetrix Support Team

2010 (7DA) is The Year of Dump Analysis!

Try to find 2010 in the corrupt code after committing the greeting to memory:

0:000> u eip
ntdll!KiFastSystemCallRet:
7c90e514 c3 ret
7c90e515 8da42400000000 lea esp,[esp]
7c90e51c 8d642400 lea esp,[esp]
ntdll!KiIntSystemCall:
7c90e520 8d542408 lea edx,[esp+8]
7c90e524 cd2e int 2Eh
7c90e526 c3 ret
7c90e527 90 nop
ntdll!RtlRaiseException:
7c90e528 55 push ebp
0:000> u
ntdll!RtlRaiseException+0x1:
7c90e529 8bec mov ebp,esp
7c90e52b 9c pushfd
7c90e52c 81ecd0020000 sub esp,2D0h
7c90e532 8985dcfdffff mov dword ptr [ebp-224h],eax
7c90e538 898dd8fdffff mov dword ptr [ebp-228h],ecx
7c90e53e 8b4508 mov eax,dword ptr [ebp+8]
7c90e541 8b4d04 mov ecx,dword ptr [ebp+4]
7c90e544 89480c mov dword ptr [eax+0Ch],ecx
0:000> u
ntdll!RtlRaiseException+0x1f:
7c90e547 8d852cfdffff lea eax,[ebp-2D4h]
7c90e54d 8988b8000000 mov dword ptr [eax+0B8h],ecx
7c90e553 8998a4000000 mov dword ptr [eax+0A4h],ebx
7c90e559 8990a8000000 mov dword ptr [eax+0A8h],edx
7c90e55f 89b0a0000000 mov dword ptr [eax+0A0h],esi
7c90e565 89b89c000000 mov dword ptr [eax+9Ch],edi
7c90e56b 8d4d0c lea ecx,[ebp+0Ch]
7c90e56e 8988c4000000 mov dword ptr [eax+0C4h],ecx
0:000> u
ntdll!RtlRaiseException+0x4c:
7c90e574 8b4d00 mov ecx,dword ptr [ebp]
7c90e577 8988b4000000 mov dword ptr [eax+0B4h],ecx
7c90e57d 8b4dfc mov ecx,dword ptr [ebp-4]
7c90e580 48 dec eax
7c90e581 61 popad
7c90e582 7070 jo ntdll!_CIcos+0xe (7c90e5f4)
7c90e584 7920 jns ntdll!RtlRaiseException+0x7e (7c90e5a6)
7c90e586 4d dec ebp
0:000> u
ntdll!RtlRaiseException+0x5f:
7c90e587 656d ins dword ptr es:[edi],dx
7c90e589 6f outs dx,dword ptr [esi]
7c90e58a 7269 jb ntdll!_CIcos+0xf (7c90e5f5)
7c90e58c 657320 jae ntdll!RtlRaiseException+0x87 (7c90e5af)
7c90e58f 696e202020da07 imul ebp,dword ptr [esi+20h],7DA2020h
7c90e596 0000 add byte ptr [eax],al
7c90e598 2121 and dword ptr [ecx],esp
7c90e59a 2121 and dword ptr [ecx],esp
0:000> u
ntdll!RtlRaiseException+0x74:
7c90e59c 0000 add byte ptr [eax],al
7c90e59e 8ca88c000000 mov word ptr [eax+8Ch],gs
7c90e5a4 8c90c8000000 mov word ptr [eax+0C8h],ss
7c90e5aa c70007000100 mov dword ptr [eax],10007h
7c90e5b0 6a01 push 1
7c90e5b2 50 push eax
7c90e5b3 ff7508 push dword ptr [ebp+8]
7c90e5b6 e8f3f3ffff call ntdll!NtRaiseException (7c90d9ae)

We plan to open 2010 (7DA), The Year of Dump Analysis, with the publication of a gigabyte.

Product information is:

• Title: Gigabyte
• Author: Dmitry Vostokov
• Language: English
• Product Dimensions: 21.6 x 21.6
• Paperback: 80 pages
• Publisher: Opentask (01 Jan 2010)
• ISBN-13: 978-1-906717-89-6

By analogy with a security researcher profession, DumpAnalysis.org, Memory Analysis and Debugging Institute and Software Maintenance Institute propose the new title of a software defect researcher as a unified profession combining relevant fields of security research, testing, debugging, memory dump analysis, software reverse engineering, construction and maintenance.

As a dual to Resume and CV: As a Book OpenTask plans to publish the long time memories of the founder of DumpAnalysis.org in the following book next year:

My Failed Job Interviews: Reflections on 50 Percent (ISBN: 978-1906717889)

The recollections span East and West, small and giant software companies, full time and part time, office and remote job positions, direct and recruitment company hiring, phone and on-site, technical and business interviews.

Memory Analysis and Debugging Institute (MA&DI), DA+TA Portal (DumpAnalysis.org + TraceAnalysis.org) and OpenTask establish R&D Institute of Software Maintenance:

Software Maintenance Institute (SMInstitute.com)

DumpAnalysis.org accepts hardware such as laptops for reviewing in relation to their suitability for extreme debugging, virtualization, trace analysis, computer forensics, memory dump analysis, visualization and auralization. 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 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 330,000 unique visitors per year from more than 45,000 network locations (*).

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

http://www.dumpanalysis.org/contact

(*) From Google Analytics report.

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 and Support Engineers (Windows Edition, Systematic Software Fault Analysis Series)
• Authors: Thomas Monahan, Dmitry Vostokov
• Publisher: Opentask (30 November 2009)
• Language: English
• Product Dimensions: 22.86 x 15.24
• ISBN-13: 978-1-906717-02-5
• Paperback: 180 pages

This book has been superseded by the second edition:

Crash and Hang Analysis: A Guide for System Administrators, DevOps, and Support Engineers (Windows Edition) (ISBN: 978-1908043917)

The free online version of Debugged! MZ/PE magazine:

www.DebuggingExpert.com

You can now follow portal and blog news at DumpAnalysis on Twitter.

Please join the community of memory (dump) and trace analysis engineers. This group promotes scientific methods and memory dump-based world view.

DATA (Dump Analysis + Trace Analysis) Facebook group

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.

DumpAnalysis.org announces forthcoming 2011 - 2020 as

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

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

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 (2010)
• 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:

Cartoon from Narasimha Vedala (Simian Art)

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

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

Cartoon from Narasimha Vedala (Simian Art)

DumpAnalysis.org jointly with OpenTask publisher announces forthcoming 2009 as

2009 (0x7D9) - The Year of Debugging