There were 2 new prize draw winners of my most recent SAS book in the last few weeks, with the 2 prize draws held at the SAS Forum UK in Birmingham at the end of September 2016, and at the PhUSE Conference in Barcelona this month.
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Author: Philip Holland
Owner and Administrator of Holland Numerics: Blog and Forums.
Free draw for my book at PhUSE in Barcelona
Would you like to win a copy of my latest book “SAS Programming and Data Visualization Techniques”?
Are you attending the 2016 PhUSE Conference in Barcelona between 9 and 12 October?
If the answer to both these questions is Yes, then visit the CK Clinical stand in the Exhibitors Area at the conference and take your business card, or write your name and email address on the cards provided, and drop it into the box. The draw will be made towards the end of the conference and you could win a sealed copy of my book. I’ll sign it for you too, if you want!
There will also be a copy for you to read at the stand, so you’ll be able to see whether it is worth the risk! 😉
Apologies for my blog server crash – normal service has now been restored
I suspect many of you will have a “bucket list”, a list of places you would really like to visit and activities you would like to do. I have bucket list myself, which included visiting the Alhambra in Granada in Southern Spain. Last week my wife and I joined a tour of Andalusia, which included a visit to the Alhambra on the first day, where we enjoyed the splendour of the Moorish palace.
Little did I know at the time, but just after we had left for our tour my blog server switched itself off. I have still not determined the exact reason for the crash, but I think it could have been a local power cut that caused the shutdown. Anyway, I was 900 miles away with no remote access to the server, so I had to relax and enjoy the rest of the tour. On returning to the UK it was simply a matter of restarting the server, and normal service was restored in a few minutes.
I will conclude with some simple questions for you. I could have bought and installed an uninterruptible power supply to the server, which would have, hopefully, prevented the crash. However, I would not have been able to tell you about my bucket list!
My questions for you are:
- What is the value of a blog, more or less than the cost of purchasing and running an uninterruptible power supply, or flying back to fix it?
- Would a week where the blog is unavailable affect its value?
- Should I have told you all about the crash immediately, or when it was fixed?
I’m presenting “Writing Reusable Macros” at the PhUSE Conference in Barcelona from 10-12Oct2016
I’m presenting “Writing Reusable Macros” in the Coders’ Corner stream at the PhUSE Conference in Barcelona from 10-12Oct2016. You can download my paper and presentation from here.
Hope to see you in Barcelona.
I’m presenting “Using SAS Studio Tasks to Plot with ODS Graphics” at the SAS Forum UK in Birmingham on 27Sep2016
I’m presenting “Using SAS Studio Tasks to Plot with ODS Graphics” at the SAS Forum UK in Birmingham on 27Sep2016. You can download my paper and presentation from here.
Hope to see you in Birmingham.
The SAS Programming Forum is growing: a new SAS course topic posted and another SAS question answered
The SAS course and the SAS Programming Forum continue to grow, I have just added a new course topic about the PROC SQL data set combining, and there are now 21 topics in 3 different sections:
- [A] SAS components – 2 topics
- Data Steps – 13 topics
- [F] PROC SQL – 6 topics (1 new topic!)
The SAS course topics themselves are in the SAS Programming Forum, which can only be accessed by Programmer level members, but Free members can read the SAS course – Home page and see the individual topic names.
I’ve also added an answer to a new SAS-related question in the SAS Programming Forum about re-ordering data sets without using PROC SORT. Again this topic can only be accessed by Programmer level members.
More topics and sections are being developed, so register for free now to be kept up-to-date about all of the news, so you can take advantage of the Programmer level when it suits you best!
Another new post in the SAS course making a total of 20 topics in 3 sections
The SAS course continues to grow, I have just added a new topic about the PUT statement, and there are now 20 topics in 3 different sections:
- [A] SAS components – 2 topics
- Data Steps – 13 topics (1 new topic!)
- [F] PROC SQL – 5 topics
The SAS course topics themselves can only be accessed by Programmer level members, but Free members can read the SAS course – Home page and see the individual topic names.
More topics and sections are being developed, so register for free now to be kept up-to-date about all of the news, so you can take advantage of the Programmer level when it suits you best!
The SAS course now has 19 topics in 3 sections
The SAS course continues to grow, and now has 19 topics in 3 different sections:
- [A] SAS components – 2 topics
- Data Steps – 12 topics (1 new topic!)
- [F] PROC SQL – 5 topics
The SAS course topics themselves can only be accessed by Programmer level members, but Free members can read the SAS course – Home page and see the individual topic names.
More topics and sections are being developed, so register for free now to be kept up-to-date about all of the news, so you can take advantage of the Programmer level when it suits you best!
I’ve added an explanation of what each membership level can do
The most up-to-date version of the following table can be found here, but with extra links there to help you register for the correct membership level on this site. Each membership level builds on the previous level, so for each successive level the blue boxes highlight the new areas and access added:
| Membership level | Blog & Forums | Access |
|---|---|---|
| Not logged in | Blog posts | Read |
| SAS Skills Discussion Forum | Read linked topics only | |
| SAS Job Listings | Read | |
| Free membership | Blog posts | Read & Comment |
| SAS Skills Discussion Forum | Read and Write Topics & Reply | |
| SAS Job Listings | Read | |
| Programmer membership (includes Free membership) | Blog posts | Read & Comment |
| SAS Skills Discussion Forum | Read and Write Topics & Reply | |
| SAS Programming Forum | Read and Write Topics & Reply | |
| SAS course | Read Topics & Reply | |
| SAS Job Listings | Read | |
| Recruiter membership (includes Programmer membership) | Blog posts | Read & Comment |
| SAS Skills Discussion Forum | Read and Write Topics & Reply | |
| SAS Programming Forum | Read and Write Topics & Reply | |
| SAS course | Read Topics & Reply | |
| SAS Job Listings | Read & Post New Jobs |
The SAS course now has 18 topics in 3 sections
The SAS course continues to grow, and now has 18 topics in 3 different sections:
- [A] SAS components – 2 topics
- Data Steps – 11 topics
- [F] PROC SQL – 5 topics (2 new topics!)
The SAS course topics themselves can only be accessed by Programmer level members, but Free members can read the SAS course – Home page and see the individual topic names.
More topics and sections are being developed, so register for free now to be kept up-to-date about all of the news, so you can take advantage of the Programmer level when it suits you best!
You may not be able to access my blog!
Hi everyone,
I’ve updated my blog site to fix a bug in the forum software, and you may not now be able to access the site in the way you’ve done so in the past. Using http://blog.hollandnumerics.org.uk will still work, but any web addresses including “:8000” will now fail.
You have 2 choices:
- Either access the site using http://blog.hollandnumerics.org.uk,
- Remove “:8000” from your previously used web addresses.
Why has the change been made?
When the site was accessed using port 8000, the forum software bbPress would not accept replies to forum topics. It should have done so, but it just didn’t work. Using port 80 (the default for web sites) bbPress will now successfully accept replies to forum topics, so please feel free to ask questions, and offer suggestions in forum replies.
I’m now looking forward to your topic replies.
…………Phil
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