Our Services

End Point is a full-service ecommerce consultancy. We have the expertise and knowledge to choose the right tools, look at the big picture, and we excel in all aspects of the industry:

Front-end Development

We create attractive and useful web experiences that help your visitors find the information they need, participate in your community, or complete a purchase with a minimum of friction.

  • Front-end programming: JavaScript and Ajax with jQuery, YUI, Dojo, Prototype, Mootools
  • User interface design and development: CSS, XHTML/HTML, mobile, Flash
  • Search engine optimization
  • Performance monitoring
  • Functional testing
  • Online marketing
  • Analytics: Omniture, Google Analytics

Recent Presentation Layer Development Blog Articles

  • Dynamically adding custom radio buttons in Android
  • Google Sitemap rapid deployment
  • Ghost Table Cells in IE9
  • Slash URL
  • Test Web Sites with Internet Explorer for Free
  • Code School: Journey into Mobile Review
  • Popular Mobile Apps from Brian and Adam
  • UTOSC 2012 talks of interest
  • Three Things: Rails, JOIN tip, and Responsiveness
  • Interchange Search Caching with "Permanent More"

    • Presentation Layer

    Back-end Development

    We have extensive experience with server-side development and focus on the security, reliability, and scalability of ecommerce applications.

    • Ecommerce applications: Interchange, Piggybak, Spree, Magento
    • Ecommerce features: merchandising systems, shipping and payment gateway integration, internationalization, inventory management, PCI compliance
    • Frameworks: Django, Ruby on Rails, Catalyst
    • Content management: MediaWiki, WordPress, Drupal
    • Languages: Python, Ruby, Perl, PHP, Java

    Recent Application Layer Development Blog Articles

  • Adventures with using Ruby 2.0 and libreadline
  • Making SSL Work with Django Behind an Apache Reverse Proxy
  • Converting RHEL 5.9 and 6.4 to CentOS
  • Deploying password files with Chef
  • Debugging Localization in Rails
  • Getting started with Heroku
  • Install SSL Certificate from Network Solutions on nginx
  • jQuery Performance Tips: Slice, Filter, parentsUntil
  • How to Apply a Rails Security Patch
  • JavaScript-driven Interactive Highlighting

    • Application Layer

    Database layer Development

    End Point’s developers have decades of combined experience in designing, developing, and maintaining effective and well-structured databases.

    • Database expertise:PostgreSQL, MySQL, Oracle
    • Database replication: Bucardo, Slony
    • DBA skills: Administration, Architecture
    • Server architecture: RHEL, CentOS, Debian, Ubuntu, OpenBSD, (Open)Solaris

    Recent Data Layer Expertise Blog Articles

  • Converting RHEL 5.9 and 6.4 to CentOS
  • cPanel no-pty ssh noise removal
  • cPanel Exim false positive failure & restart fix
  • RHEL 6 glibc IPv6 DNS resolution bug
  • UTOSC 2012 talks of interest
  • SELinux Local Policy Modules
  • Stateful IPv6 tracking in RHEL 5: Fail
  • Linux unshare -m for per-process private filesystem mount points
  • Converting CentOS 6 to RHEL 6
  • Semaphore limits and many Apache instances on Linux

    • Data Layer

    Operations and Architecture Maintenance and Development

    End Point provides architecture development and support, web hosting, email hosting, and has experience with site monitoring tools.

    • Hosting and Configuration: iptables, Puppet, Varnish, Squid, nginx, lighttpd, Apache
    • Web Architecture Development and Support
    • Web Security: pf, OpenVPN

    Recent Operations and Architecture Blog Articles

  • Adventures with using Ruby 2.0 and libreadline
  • SSH ProxyCommand with netcat and socat
  • Detecting Blufferbloat
  • Install SSL Certificate from Network Solutions on nginx
  • How to Apply a Rails Security Patch
  • Evading Anti-Virus Detection with Metasploit
  • Create a key pair using SSH on Windows
  • Use Metasploit to Verify Rails is Secured from CVE-2013-0156
  • Redirect from HTTP to HTTPS before basic auth
  • Setting user ownership of nginx and Passenger processes

    • Operations and Architecture