“She picked us. She actually picked us!”
By background, Mike and I are both technical folks. We went to the same school, graduated from the same program. While we both speak conversational English (as opposed to off-puting tech), neither of us has great expertise in marketing. Opinions? Yes. Expertise? Not so much. We have known for [...]
The Issue with Issue Trackers. New Ways of Working for Standards Groups | HR Interoperability
STAR Standards Chief Architect David Carver recently wrote a post about the W3C's use of a public issue tracker. A few people have "retweeted" the post and sent it my way via email. In the post, David gives kudos to the [...]
Below is an embed of Karen Lopez’s 2007 Data Management Association (DAMA) presentation. In this presentation, Karen discusses some of the benefits and gotchas of working with acquired models – industry standard models, patterns, and other universal model concepts.
Content Management: Employee Lifecycle
Many aspects of the employee lifecycle involve processes that are burdensome. Especially when the volume of employee transactions is significant, the ability to eliminate manual tasks such as filing, copying and mailing documents, and instead automate these and other processes can significantly reduce the cost and improve the efficiency of managing employee [...]
The STAR eXchange: Playing Nice. XML Schemas and Data Binding
Basically anything that is a Component is still treated as a global reference. Anything that is a Field is locally defined within the component that it appears. This should help reduce the number of classes that are generated by various tooling as the local elements will [...]
Learn Google AppEngine
These are supporting materials for the O'Reilly book titled Using Google App Engine. This book is aimed at people who want to gain skill in web programming in general and the Google App Engine. The book has been used to support many beginning courses ranging from High School to College. As such there [...]
No to SQL? Anti-database movement gains steam
The meet-up in San Francisco last month had a whiff of revolution about it, like a latter-day techie version of the American Patriots planning the Boston Tea Party.
The inaugural get-together of the burgeoning NoSQL community crammed 150 attendees into a meeting room at CBS Interactive.
Like the Patriots, who rebelled [...]
Screencast for "Demystifying ESBs for HR System Stakeholders" Webinar | HR Interoperability
Thanks to those who attended yesterday's webinar, Demystifying ESBs for HR System Stakeholders, and many thanks to the presenter Larry Fulton.
Larry has made available a copy of the slide deck from his blog. Full replay of the session is available in two video embeds.
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Thanks to those who attended yesterday’s webinar, Demystifying ESBs for HR System Stakeholders, and many thanks to the presenter Larry Fulton.
Larry has made available a copy of the slide deck from his blog. Full replay of the session is available in the two video embeds that appear below.
Another resource that you may find valuable [...]
HR Provisioning: Employee Lifecycle (Part 1) | HR Interoperability
The OASIS Provisioning Services Technical Committee describes provisioning as:
…the automation of all the steps required to manage (setup, amend and revoke) user or system access entitlements or data relative to electronically published services.
In the context of HR processes, the term "provisioning" is commonly [...]