Payroll
A common document that an employee receives from their employer, detailing their pay and deductions for a specific pay period.
What is a Pay Stub?
In software development, this "agile" term describes a short, focused period during which a specific part of a project is completed.
What is a Sprint?
This term refers to the initial, often unaired, full-episode version of a show used to sell the concept to a network or gauge audience reaction.
What is a pilot?
This feature within GreenSlate's software allows for multi-level sign-offs on expenses and timecards, configurable to a production's specific hierarchy.
What are customizable approval flows?
When John Finn is not tackling the complex world of payroll and accounting, he reportedly enjoys unwinding with iconic films from the 1970s, such as that decade's Best Picture winner about two cunning con artists, or this sprawling mafia epic about the Corleone family.
What is "The Sting" or "The Godfather"?
Many TV production crew members are part of these organizations, which can influence payroll through specific wage scales and benefit contributions.
What are Unions?
This popular programming language, often used in web development, shares its name with a type of coffee.
What is Java?
GreenSlate is on board for the follow-up to this massive competition series, whose first season not only awarded the largest cash prize in reality TV history but also became the platform's most-watched unscripted show ever.
What is Beast Games Season 2?
A core architectural principle for GreenSlate, ensuring all modules work together from a unified dataset, eliminating the need for cumbersome imports/exports between disparate systems.
What is an all-in-one app?
Before his work on GreenSlate prompted a relocation, John Finn resided in this upstate New York city, known for its university with a colorful citrus mascot and its impressive annual snowfall.
What is Syracuse?
This payroll processing step, often run before finalizing a pay run, helps identify discrepancies like missing hours, unusual pay amounts, or incorrect employee data.
What is a payroll preview?
This type of database does not use the traditional tabular relations of relational databases and is often used for large-scale data storage, providing flexible schemas. Examples include document, key-value, and graph databases.
What is a NoSQL database?
This Comedy Central series, also a GreenSlate client, hilariously depicted the friendship of two young women navigating life in New York City, with creators Abbi Jacobson and Ilana Glazer starring as fictionalized versions of themselves.
What is Broad City?
GreenSlate's platform boasts this certification, indicating that its systems and controls have been independently audited and verified to meet stringent standards for availability, processing integrity, confidentiality, privacy, and data security.
What is SOC 2 Type 2 certification?
While he leads a company focused on the complexities of production finance, John Finn shares his home with this furry companion, whose name might evoke a larger, more ferocious creature of the wild.
Who is "Bear" the cat?
Productions often establish these legal structures for each project to isolate financial liability, a practice that GreenSlate's services are designed to accommodate seamlessly.
What are Single Purpose Entities?
This quality of an API operation means that making multiple identical requests has the same effect as making a single request, crucial for building resilient distributed systems.
What is idempotency?
The creator of this reality series, Chris Coelen, has defended its criticized short timeline by explaining that the initial phase involves up to 16 hours of intense, distraction-free conversation daily, arguing that it fosters deeper connections more quickly than months of typical interactions.
What is Love is blind?
To ensure accurate cost allocation for complex productions, the GreenSlate app provides this tool to convert a specific type of chart, which often includes intricate, multi-level structures specific to entertainment industry accounting.
What is the Chart of Accounts Mapper?
Beyond independent film, John Finn noted in a 2017 Filmmaker Magazine interview that a significant portion of GreenSlate's business (around 60% at the time) had expanded into this television genre.
What is unscripted television?
When an employee works two different jobs at two different rates of pay for the same employer in a single workweek, this method is often used to calculate the overtime premium.
What is the weighted average overtime calculation (or blended overtime rate)?
This popular open-source automation framework is primarily used for automating web browsers and provides bindings for various programming languages to write test scripts.
What is Selenium?
This algorithm from the show Silicon Valley is a video compression software program written in C that achieves a Weissman score in the fives.
What is "Middle Out" compression
To enhance data analysis and reporting for enterprise clients, GreenSlate offers custom API solutions, including an integration with this popular cloud data platform, enabling seamless data flow.
What is Snowflake?
John "Chico" Finn teamed up with Keith Christopher in 2008 to form this band, for which he writes his own material.
What is Esquela?