…about something …and it’s up to you to figure out what. At SGF I had the honor of participating in a panel discussion titled “So You Want to Be a SAS Press Author!” The panel was organized by Nancy Brucken, moderated by Michael Raithel and included authors Art Carpenter, Cynthia Zender, and Mike Molter....
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With SAS Global Forum less than two months away, I am busy putting the finishing touches on my papers. One of those papers is SAS Macro Programming for Beginners. Of all the conference papers I have written over the years, this is probably my favorite. Yet oddly, I have only presented this paper once...
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The following blog is reprinted by permission of the author Jiangtang Hu. Hu is a SAS programmer living in Beijing who writes blogs in both English and Chinese. (Full disclosure: Hu quoted The Little SAS Book, but I had never met him before he wrote this blog.) SAS Data Step’s Built-in Loop: An Illustrated...
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Still looking for that perfect holiday gift? For a limited time you can save 30% on all books from SAS Publishing. Most of these books are a little big for stocking stuffers, but they fit just fine under a tree. This offer expires Dec. 13, 2010 so ...
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According to my site stats someone found this site yesterday by searching for the phrase “what can i use sas for?’ I’m flattered. And I hope they found the answer to their question. Though to be honest, I doubt that anything I have previously written addressed the use of SAS in such broad terms....
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Like all writers (and artists, musicians, software developers, and other creators of content) I am concerned about the problem of copyright infringement. (Here is my previous post about this.) So I was interested to find out that while I was at the Western Users of SAS Software conference, there was a veritable brouhaha about...
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I have just returned from another great Western Users of SAS Software conference. Normally at this point I would write a summary of the conference, but this year I don’t have to. Instead, you can hear my summary in this interview by Sy Truong of Meta-Xceed, Inc. To hear all of Sy’s interviews...
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Answer: It certainly doesn’t pay authors. My sister recently told me that the Sacramento public library lists one copy of The Little SAS Book in their catalog. However, it turns out that someone has stolen that one copy. I figure that’s a compliment of sorts: Someone wanted The Little SAS Book enough to steal...
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