Follow-Up:Streamlining Testing, Trading Partner Integration, and Certification

For those that missed our most recent Webinar, you can find a recording embedded below. Some of the video qualityisn’t great, but the sound is quite clear. As the Webinar explains, HR-XML's forthcoming Version 3.0 release is informed by almost 10 years of industry contributions and is architecturally more consistent and robust than ever before. [...]

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HR-XML Integration in Human Resources Software

Most of the programming and architecture work I do is in the human resources space. I write software for paperless onboarding and acculturation, personell change management, background checks and verification services, new employee requisitioning, and the like. As you can imagine, I spend a great deal of time and effort integrating with human [...]

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Writing Anonymous Methods with Lambda Expressions

I like using Lambda expressions for anonymous methods. I don’t really have a good reason for it, but I like it, so here’s the difference. Let’s say you have a class exposing the following delegate: public delegate bool CheckExpirationDelegate(); public CheckExpirationDelegate CheckExpiration; The normal anonymous delegate would look like this: di.CheckExpiration += delegate() { return true; }; But, [...]

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9/11, A Flower On The Grave

Like you, I remember vividly what I was doing the morning of September 11th, 2001.   I was thinking about it this morning on my way to work, and the memory is full of negative emotions: anger, disgust, hatred, sadness, fear.   They’re like an open wound. I tried to look past the negative emotions.   The courage and [...]

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Paperless Onboarding - State Tax Forms

Let’s rewind the clock back a few years and recall those ancient days of paper intensive processes. It’s the first day of work and your new employee has just been instructed to head over to the HR Department to complete forms, forms, and more forms. Suddenly, you have the Federal Tax Form, [...]

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Automate your Form I-9

In October 2004, President Bush signed Public Law 108-390 which for the first time authorized employers to store Employment Eligibility Verification Forms (Forms I-9) in an electronic format. The law took effect in April of 2005 and employers began to manage their Forms I-9 electronically. There are many reasons why a company should choose [...]

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Top 10 Reasons for Onboarding

Recently, I started watching a 1987 Classic NBA game between the Atlanta Hawks and Boston Celtics. Being  the  long time Georgia native that I am, it dawned on me that some things never change.   The Hawks lost in 1987 and 21 years later, they are still losing to the Celtics!   I wonder how many of you that [...]

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Statistical Method for Estimating Software Projects

As the Vice President for Research and Development at Emerald Software Group, a large part of my job comprises managing software projects from conception to completion. As a programmer in a management position, I’ve discovered a few things. First, I am very good at estimating how many human hours of programming time it [...]

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Unpivot Table Sproc (3 lines)

CREATE PROCEDURE [TOPS].[UnpivotTable] ( @tableName AS VARCHAR(512), @whereClause AS VARCHAR(2000) = NULL, @commonColumns AS VARCHAR(2000) = NULL ) AS -- ========================================================== -- Author: Patrick Caldwell -- Create date: 2007/12/19 -- Description: this procedure unpivots data in a table -- [...]

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Requisitioning the Right Way: Staff Service Request

During the past 10 years I’ve spent in Human Capital management, I’ve noticed that most companies do a less than satisfactory job of requisitioning items for a new hire by their first day of employment. Most of these same companies rely on manual processes to ensure that all of the requisitioned items are ready [...]

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