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A SAS® blog for the rest of us![Judging a report by its title](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sasdummy/files/2017/01/ProgrammingTips-2.png)
The SAS output delivery system (ODS) makes it so easy to create great-looking output that many folks forget that you can make it even better. One step that folks often leave out: applying a custom title for HTML output. I'm not talking about the title text that you see as
![SAS Enterprise Guide for SAS programmers](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sasdummy/files/2017/02/ProgrammingTips-4.png)
In her completely random blog entry, AnnMaria says: I can’t see a lot of people who are experienced SAS programmers switching to Enterprise Guide. Yeah, we get that a lot. SAS programmers sometimes resist adopting SAS Enterprise Guide citing these (paraphrased) reasons: "I don't need a point-and-click interface to generate
![Babelfishing in your SAS 9.2 programs](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sasdummy/files/2017/02/ProgrammingTips-3.png)
Today's featured topic on support.sas.com teaches you how to use SAS to work with multiple languages and character sets in a single SAS session. The ability to switch locales and languages "on the fly" depends on the improved support for Unicode within SAS 9.2. Although it's a less heralded component
![Running SAS on a Dell Mini 9](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sasdummy/files/2017/02/ProgrammingTips-3.png)
Jason posted his thoughts on using a netbook with a thin layer of applications to do the stuff that he needs to do: surf the web and work his inbox. But don't underestimate these little machines. Over on the Dell Mini forum there is a discussion among folks who use
![Guess your Wait at the state fair](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sasdummy/files/2017/02/ProgrammingTips-3.png)
My family and I attended the North Carolina State Fair on Tuesday (weather was beautiful), and noticed two differences from previous years: Everything was more expensive -- getting in, riding the rides, and especially the food. It was easier to get around, because it wasn't so crowded. We didn't have
![Mining the VP debate results according to Twitter -- with SAS](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sasdummy/files/2017/02/ProgrammingTips-3.png)
Like millions of Americans, I watched the vice presidential debate on television last night. I also watched it on Twitter -- which is to say that while watching the debate, I watched the real-time responses of hundreds of Twitter users. Twitter users, as you may know, have up to 140