The mechanic, who wishes to do his work well, must first
sharpen his tools.
–Confucian Analects. BOOK XV.WEI LING KUNG.CHAP.IX.
My paper Work Smarter than Harder-tools for growing up a SAS programmer was accepted by SAS Global Forum 2011. It would be my first time to attend SAS user group conference worldwide. The draft version is […]
End year Haiku again!
Yesterday I finished my project, wrote a Haiku to colleagues worldwide to say happy new year, then closed my desktop, said goodbye to colleagues still in office:
In December my baby born
my project deliveries followed on
Now my co…
I’m used to typing in both my userid and my password when I log in to computers. I have never been a fan of the user pick lists that now seem to be common to many operating systems. I can see how they can be convenient for family machines at home, but the idea of […]
Last week we made an impassioned plea for attention to style in formatting R and SAS code.While it’s always better to adopt a consistent style and use it whenever you write code, the reality is that sometimes formatting slips (or you end up repurposing…
On this festive season, you can send cool animated images to your loved ones – a la SAS way!!! Here is how you do it.Add a filename email with the required to/cc/bcc id’s.Include the HTML img tag and give the following source path as shown be…
If you have some spare time between Christmas and New Year you could do a lot worse than take a look at the latest issue of Views News. Issue 52 of the newsletter and tips sheet became available last week and includes articles on displaying multiple tr…
If you care about what SAS is doing on your Windows server, you need to read Chris Hemedinger’s posting on Microsoft’s Process Explorer V14.01 for Windows. It seems that PE is a free utility that is downloadable from Microsoft. It’s not a pretty tool, …
My post regarding QueryContest got an unexpected amount of interest. Quite apart from Chris@SAS’s comment regarding his use of GoogleFight, Neil emailed me to say:
Just been reading your blog. Similar fun can be had with these…
http://www.google.co…