First, there was “networking”. I never got into that scene—I was never comfortable “selling myself” and climbing corporate ladders and all. (Hey, I’ve got real work to do!) Then along came “social networking”, which is a double whammy…
Free SAS training – how can you resist?
SAS Education has released a free training course on What’s New in the SAS® Add-In 5.1 for Microsoft Office, SAS® Enterprise Guide® 5.1, and SAS® 9.3 Stored Processes. With this free training course you can stay up-to-date on the latest features a…
Getting Certified
As a (certified) SAS platform administrator I often get asked how best to prepare for the SAS Certified Platform Administrator 9 exam. I don’t have a magic formula other than study and experience. My standard response is to direct people to the b…
Sublime Text 2 for SAS Programmers: A Quick Note
I’m playing with a new text editor, Sublime Text 2, and it has much potentials to replace my current handy Notepad++ and VIM. A quick note for further exploration(will keep update): 1. SAS syntax highlighting Sublime Text 2 doesn’t support SAS syntax natively. I got a workaround so I didn’t need to write my own […]
SAS functions for computing parameters in Erlang-C model
Call center management is both Arts and Sciences. While driving moral and setting up strategies is more about Arts, staffing and servicing level configuration based on call load is in the domain of Sciences.
The science part of call center managemen…
SAS Professionals provides climate for success
“Welcome to the English summer.” “In the US you have climate. In England we have Weather.” These are just two of the familiar phrases I heard yesterday during the SAS Professionals Convention held at SAS UK in Marlow. The weather changed from sun to dark clouds to rain and even […]