Posts Tagged ‘ Training ’

Following my feature of Metacoda and their security plug-ins last week, I have to feature Phil Holland. As I said last week, I'm a keen supporter of the third-party market for SAS-related products. In addition to his two published books (Saving Time an...
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The Call for Papers for next year's SAS Global Forum (SGF) opens tomorrow, August 28th. The conference will take place between April 28th - May 1st 2013, in San Francisco, USA. Paper presentations are an invaluable part of what has made SAS Global Fo...
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Before we've even got SAS Global Forum under our belts, registration for SAS Professionals Convention in Marlow, July 10th to 12th 2012, is open! At £125 for three days of SAS activities, it's got to be the best value SAS offer you'll see in the UK...
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If you haven't already registered for SAS Global Forum 2012 (SGF) you need to hurry-up because the early-bird discounts will end on March 19th. If you're not convinced of the value of attending, check-out last year's best contributed papers to see the...
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A few weeks ago I published the first in an irregular series of code katas. In a previous post I had described code katas as a form of training for programmers. I saw a lot of interest around the post. Richard Koopman posted an elegant response on hi...
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In a recent meeting, an action arose and I asked one of my team (PJ) to catch it and complete it. He (tongue in cheek) commented to all those at the meeting that I was "the best delegator" he'd ever worked with. His humorous implication was that I don'...
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There's a nice walkthrough of some of the features of the SAS 9.2 metadata server on the SAS Professionals web site in the Social Media / Videos section. You'll have to be a SAS Professionals member to view it from the link I've provided, but if ...
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In yesterday's post I described Code Katas and how they can be a useful form of programming practice. Dave Watson (the "inventor" of Code Katas) offers 21 on his Code Kata blog. I intend to publish my own from time-to-time, and here is the first. Enjoy...
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