I’m delighted that Phil Holland, Holland Numerics, has written a guest post today. Phil, clearly a SAS icon, is the author of numerous SAS books that are available from multiple sources. He recently expanded his work into some new and exciting formats, which he is discussing in this post. Writing SAS Books Let me be very clear about my attitude to writing books. I am never going to sell enough of my SAS books to compete with J K Rowling. I write books purely to market my SAS skills, and I’m never going to earn enough from selling books that will allow me to retire early, even if I wanted to! I discovered over the last few years that there are a lot of illegal copies of both my two previous books, and I mean a lot! Part of me is flattered by the proliferation of my books, and another part of me is offended by the criminal acts of illegally copying MY BOOKS! It appears that several people have obtained (bought?) paper copies of my books, scanned them and distributed the scanned copies on Torrent sites. I’ve informed SAS Publishing of these Torrent sites, but it is futile to […]
Reaching a dubious peak
So many of us struggle with this mountain. In fact, 68.27% of us get within sight of reaching the summit (while 95.47% of us are at least on a perceivable slope). We run, walk, crawl and sometimes slide our way uphill (from one direction or the other) until we finally […]
SAS BI Dashboard: Its all in a name
When developing content in SAS BI Dashboard, such as indicators, ranges, and dashboards, knowing how to name them is pretty important. If changes are required later (for instance to improve the administrators capability of partial promoting content) mu…
SAS Macro Simplifies SAS and R integration
Many of us feel very enthusiastic about R. It’s free, it features cutting edge applications, it has a large community of users contributing for mutual benefit, and on and on. There are also many things to like about SAS, including stability, backwards…
New job, same technology, huge customer value
As many of you have already noticed, my LinkedIn profile and the blog profile blurb have changed. I took on an exciting new job in the SAS Solutions OnDemand team. The official title is Software Development Manager, but what I really do is lead a team …
Export to Excel 2010 just got a little bit easier
In case you missed it, the first maintenance release for SAS 9.3 was recently released. Because we’re all friends here, you may call it “SAS 9.3M1” for short. Maintenance releases are usually about fixing problems that SAS has found or that customers have reported. However, sometimes a new capability might […]