Archive for May, 2007
SAS books now on Safari
Being a Safari subscriber, I found a pleasant surprise awaiting me in this month’s email newsletter: eBooks from SAS Publishing are now available on Safari. Having a quick look, I found a small but useful selection. Topics like the SQL procedure, the Macro language and Enterprise Guide caught my eye but there’s more than this [...]
Using SAS FILENAME statement to extract directory file listings into SAS
The filename statement’s pipe option allows you to direct the output of operating system commands into SAS for further processing. Usefully, the Windows dir command (with its /s switch) and the UNIX equivalent ls allow you get a file listing into SAS. For example, here’s how you extract the list of files in your UNIX [...]
ProgrammingGoogle Analytics
Furthering my excursions into things related to Google, I have been giving Google Analytics a whirl for my hillwalking and photo gallery website. Aside from the fact that it is updated once a day, it could have enabled me to eject WordPress plug-ins like Popularity Contest and FireStats getting the chop. As it happens, I [...]
Going overboard on blog plug-ins and widgets?
This whole Web 2.0 thing is producing an embarrassment of riches for those wanting to share their thoughts on the web without having to go to the effort of developing their own websites from scratch. A decade ago, Geocities was pioneering the idea of web communities but, without the infrastructure and tools that we enjoy [...]
A case of cross-fertilisation
Having two blogs allows me to stream my content; I doubt that many visitors to my hillwalking blog would appreciate seeing posts on, for example, the minutiae of UNIX shell scripting. However, as disparate as these worlds are, there is something shared between them and it has started to cause some cross fertilisation between them: [...]
Web 2.0What are we like?
Over the history of the internet, I have seem halcyon online dreams turn sour and the same lurch is happening to the world of Web 2.0. It was only in the mid-nineties that the web was considered a levelling platform and a place for interaction and sharing. It also was a lot safer than it [...]
Web 2.0