It’s December 1st, and that means it’s time to hop over to the SAS Professionals web site to begin the daily pleasure of opening the advent calendar to bring some Christmas cheer – and possibly winning a gift.
And if you’re not already a member, I r…
There’s a debate in the UK, and many other countries around the globe, regarding the content of the IT curriculum (or, ICT as it’s known in the UK). Speaking from experience, my kids have been taught how to use Microsoft Office products, but they hav…
Well, that was an interesting evening! Lots of enthusiasm, lots of geekiness, lots of vision, and lots of printed circuit boards. Inspiring.
I’ve just been to the third Raspberry Jam in London, an event designed to facilitate the sharing of kn…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…