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 […]
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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…
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 […]
R Appears Among Top 20 Programming Languages
Speaking of R… On the 16th, TIOBE Software released the Tiobe Index of the most popular programming languages. For the first time ever, R is in the Top 20. The top spots are, no surprise, occupied by Java and C respectively. More after the jump. The way this index is assembled is…interesting. The full way […]
Reading your mind: Writing SAS code in the new Enterprise Guide editor
I taught my first SAS Enterprise Guide course more than 10 years ago using version 1.2. At that time, I would estimate 95% of my students did not know how to write SAS code and had no desire to learn the syntax! They just wanted to take advantage o…
Splitting hairs among the ranks
This morning I logged onto my e-mail at 6:45 AM to learn that SAS was ranked as the No. 3 Best Company to Work For. No. 3 is not as high as No. 1. But it’s very, very close. Perhaps even barely distinguishable, in the larger scheme of things. I […]
Why I think SAS is the best place to work
Since we’re all pretty excited about it around here, you may have already heard that today SAS ranked #3 in the 2012 FORTUNE 100 Best Companies To Work For list. This is the 15th consecutive year that SAS has prominently ranked on the list – since it…