Been pretty busy with the day job, (and trying to master my Fender Telecaster in my spare time) but I've finally managed to add some new stuff to the site.  If you didn't make the SAS Global Forum in San Antonio, Texas USA, last month, then take a look at the video reports by clicking the link below.

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A brief scan of the paper schedules from SAS Global Forum 2008, threw up a gem of a paper by Josh Drukenbrod and David Mintz at the Environmental Protection Agency, in North Carolina, USA using a live SAS/Intrnet application to serve data and graphics to Google Earth.  Wow, some folks have all the luck ... Hats off, guys.  'Pure dead brilliant' as we say in Scotland.  Take a look at the paper from the link below.

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After a quiet spell over the summer and into the autumn (or fall for our US visitors), I've finally got around to adding some new SAS tips. Feel free to take a look and send in your comments.

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Thanks for taking the time to visit WebMiner.co.uk.  Due to unforeseen problems with an operating system upgrade on our Windows 2000 server, the site has been down for a couple of weeks.  Sorry, if you've tried to visit and not got through.  In due course I'll be 'blogging a rant about my experience! In the meantime, I've added a couple of new SAS tips to make up for the lack of activity in recent weeks.

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A well known SAS-l contributor has put together an open source clinical reporting suite called Spectre.  You can read about what it provides and download the code from the following link.
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A former colleague of mine is one of the few people I've met who actually understands the Basel II regulatory framework!  He has kindly allowed me to publish his paper on my site.

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Oracle's TOAD killer, Project Raptor has gone production and has been renamed SQLDeveloper.  Together with Oracle's Express Edition this makes a pretty good free package for database professionals to add to their box of tricks.
 

If you haven't spotted it already Oracle have released an 'Express' Edition for developers to download and work with.  About time.  Good news for my friendly online PC memory supplier as my laptop is beginning to creak with SQL Server Express, MySQL and now Oracle running on the same box!

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If you're a returning visitor you may have noticed that WebMiner hasn't been updated in a while, so here's the usual feeble excuses:

1. I've been really busy with day job and haven't been able to find the time to add to the site.
2. I've been working with Oracle and Informatica and given that WebMiner traffic has been primarily SAS up until now, haven't had too much new to write about.

Either way, my resolution for the year is to ensure that I add something new to this site each week and to try to put together an email newsletter every quarter.
 

I was invited to present my award-winning paper 'ASP.NET and SAS? A New model for Developing web-based SAS Applications' at SUGI 30, in the Tutorials section. If you didn't make SUGI you can download the paper and the Powerpoint slides from this site. Click here to list the papers to download. read more ...

Using robust and secure technology, WebMiner.co.uk is now offering remote working services in SAS and Data Warehousing to it's clients using GoToMyPC. You can read more about how this works on the GotoMyPC website. read more ...

If you're currently considering a Business Intelligence toolset or are a developer with an interest in this area, you might want to take a look at the BIRT project.  This framework now provides a Report writing toolset within the Eclipse framework.  There is also a Data Tools subproject starting up right now, which will eventually include an ETL toolset.  If you are interested in finding out more about the Eclipse framework, a good place to start is this white paper.  There are many different development projects currently under the Eclipse banner.  To find out more, click the following link.
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If you're looking for SAS work in the UK, either as an employee or as a freelance consultant, take a look at our RSS feed of the latest SAS jobs from the UK's premier jobsite, Jobserve.
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Following a recent thread on SAS-l - I've put together a summary of the all the options for providing user-friendly applications based on SAS System functionality. Please let me know if you think I've missed any.
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