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CodeAnywhere, (thumbsup)!

I started some mini javascript project of my own, so needed to create a relatively simplistic development environment. However, this environment has some constrains: - it should not require install (portable to many different devices), - it should connect to my Dropbox  account. For that purpose, I came across CodeAnywhere  website, where you can for free set up your account and connect your dropbox account and immediately start working. However, the internal browser that they have is running through their proxy, which causes a number of issues for my javascript development, so I am not using it.

What makes SAS Enterprise Guide not a mature application ...

Ok, before I start expressing my opinion about SAS Enterprise Guide and SAS Base Programming, I would like to make a quick introduction of my technical experience and expertise. Throughout 7-8 years of my professional life, I have been using in great extent software tools like MATLAB, and have been programming enterprise applications in Java/Spring. In last 6 months I am introducing myself to SAS World. Version I am working on is SAS Enterprise Guide 9.4. For a system that still uses programming model (SAS Base) of 80s, a graphical interface which visually shows how the process is being executed is a great refreshment. There are many options on dealing with data and doing analysis on it, making it very comfortable tool to easily build a large data manipulation process. Basic Application use issues: "Object reference not set to an instance of an object". It relatively often happens (every 4 days of 8h daily use of SAS Enterprise Guide) that the file you think yo

Small C code to convert german text to old ASCII-DE encoding

I had a task to convert a UTF-8 or ISO-8859-2 encoding german text (names, addresses,...) into a 7bit ISO-646-DE (ASCII-DE) encoding. Since this encoding almost is non-existent, it was a bit difficult to find on Google search any example of such a conversion. I decided to be that sucker to write it :) I know this is not really the best code ever, but does its job.

Getting list of files from a folder in a text file

I keep always forgetting the exact parameters to use, and need to write this down somewhere :) It might also be helpful for others:  In Windows: Windows Unix/Linux/OS X dir /b >folderlist.txt ls > folderlist.txt and if you also want to see the subfolders with their full paths: Windows Unix/Linux/OS X dir /b /s >folderlist.txt ls -R > folderlist.txt