Posted by Shane Gibson on December 19, 2008
I love blogging, but when I get in a hurry in creating a post I always forget to spell check it. When I type fast my hands seem to go faster then my brain and that always ends up with speeling mistakes 
I got emailed the following which means we probably don’t have to bother!
fi yuo cna raed tihs, yuo hvae a sgtrane mnid too
Cna yuo raed tihs? Olny 55 plepoe out of 100 can.
i cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht I was rdanieg. The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid, aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it dseno’t mtaetr in waht oerdr the ltteres in a wrod are, the olny iproamtnt tihng is taht the frsit and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it whotuit a pboerlm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Azanmig huh? yaeh and I awlyas tghuhot slpeling was ipmorantt! if you can raed tihs forwrad it
Also if you are using SAS you can use
Proc Spell, some details are available over on the
sascommunity.org website.
Posted by Shane Gibson on December 19, 2008
As I mentioned before we are using Wiki’s on the majority of our SAS project to document the business rules, collaborative discussions and documenting changes to the SAS environment and architecture.
Ive found some interesting articles that provide some good ideas of the processes that you should think about when starting a Wiki.
Use a wiki for internal documentation over at ittoolbox.com outlines 13 steps to consider when setting the Wiki up, before releasing it to the general population.
Best Practices for Wiki Standards and Procedures also at ittoolbox.com also gives a few simple steps to think about.
Wikipatterns.com have a raft of tip, with a great focus on how to spur wiki adoption.
The use a concept of adoption patterns, some which are positive and some are negative, and they align their articles to help you encourage or discourage these behavours. Or in their words:
“Applying patterns that help coordinate people’s efforts and guide the growth of content, and recognizing anti-patterns that might hinder growth – can give your wiki the greatest chance of success.Wikipatterns.com is a toolbox of patterns & anti-patterns, and a guide to the stages of wiki adoption.”
In fact the idea of adoption patterns could also probably be applied to Business Intelligence and Data Warehousng projects as well, something I think I might ponder on.
Posted by Shane Gibson on December 11, 2008
Interesting blog post over at Angela Halls blog called “Removing “User Home” Page from Information Delivery Portal“
It outlines how to remove the hoe page from all users, but I can;t see why it canlt be used to add default pages as well, will have to test that one out.
