Somebody needs to write a simple content management system (CMS) for a project that a few friends of mine started a couple of years ago.
Every year, a bunch of us chip in for two small scholarships for the graduating class of the high school in Salonta, Romania. The job would be a lot easier if [...]

When I upgraded my WordPress install, all my quotes started getting matched -- the marks tilted downward on the left side, and upward on the right. That is the WordPress default behavior and it's called "texturize". I guess if your blog is your piece of fancy stationery you like your quotes that way. But I [...]

School's out, and structs were the last thing I learned about in this C++ class I took at NC State. This semester was really about the C in C++. The object-oriented part comes in the spring. But by the time you get around to structs, you will have learned about file streaming, arrays, global constants, [...]

Today I upgraded my WordPress installation for the first time, to 2.7 'Coltrane'.  The three-step upgrade was as easy and trouble-free as advertised and there's no point in trying to make the excellent Codex instructions any clearer. But I could have been easier on myself still, so here's a cookbook on what I will do [...]

Turns out anything you can display -- or di -- on the screen, you can also send to a macro to use later. How useful is that? Well, sometimes you need to say the same thing in different ways. The macro may be set to capture either the form or the substance, depending on which [...]

In my very first post I advocated using forward slashes for file paths if you use Stata under Windows. The idea is not mine. I picked it up off the Statalist long ago, though the original author of that advice, Nick Cox of the other Durham, found it worth repeating in the most recent Stata [...]

You can have Stata scan a do-file instead of executing it, just as it would any text file. This is helpful if you have elaborate projects that cover entire directory trees full of little do-files that do different things for different subsets of the project if given conditions are met, and skip them otherwise. You [...]

One way to get free Stata help is to post your question to the Statalist. A dedicated band of Stata users will go at it like a school of hungry piranhas at a drowning zebu, and odds are excellent that whatever baffled you will be ripped apart practically while you watch. Another is to just [...]