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Our team, headquartered in New York City, has developed, maintained, and hosted ecommerce and other web solutions since its founding in 1995. We combine web application development, database and hosting expertise with understanding clients' objectives to excel in client satisfaction.

Jeff Boes

Jeff Boes

E-commerce developer and database architect

With End Point Since: 2005
Location: St. Joseph, Michigan

Jeff has worked at a variety of companies from Fortune 100 to start-ups. He specializes in database engineering, with extensive experience in Perl and SQL. His most recent position prior to joining End Point was as Director of Software Development for an Internet start-up, developing a news searching and summarizing tool using Perl, PostgreSQL, RSS, and other web technologies.

Lead Developer and Database Administrator for Nexcerpt, Inc. from 2001-2005. Headed up development for an Internet start-up offering news searching products.

Consultant for Whirlpool from 1997-2000. Worked on Oracle database projects related to company logistics (e.g., product delivery tracking).

Database Developer for Zenith Data Systems from 1994-1996. Database development supporting a shop floor manufacturing tracking system.

Software Engineer for Digital Interface Systems from 1991-1994. Worked on numerous projects involving embedded systems and manufacturing control.

MS, Computer Science, University of Pittsburg, Pennsylvania.

BS, Computer Science, Hope College, Holland, Michigan.

Jeff was one of the first-ever Computer Science graduages from Hope College in Holland, Mich. He still lives in Michigan with his wife and two sons, the youngest of whom is attending Michigan State (go Spartans!). A frustrated Detroit Lions fan, Jeff's idea of a really good time is inviting 30 of his closest friends for a weekend of board games, poker, food, and deep conversation.

Recent Blog Posts By Jeff Boes

Views across many similar tables

July 13, 2010

An application I'm working on has a host of (a dozen or so) status tables, each containing various rows that reflect the state of associated rows in other tables. For instance:Table "public.inventory" ... (Views across many similar tables cont.)

Testing in the Web Environment

February 13, 2009

Introduction Testing is an important part of good software engineering practices. In fact, it can be said that it is at once the most important, and yet most neglected part of software engineering. Tes... (Testing in the Web Environment cont.)

Standardized image locations for external linkage

September 3, 2008

Here's an interesting thought: http://www.boingboing.net/2008/09/01/publishers-should-al.html Nutshell summary: publishers should put cover images of books into a standard, predictable location (like ... (Standardized image locations for external linkage cont.)

New edition of The Book of JavaScript reviewed

February 21, 2007

February 21, 2007: New edition of The Book of JavaScript reviewed The Book of JavaScript (2nd edition) is a new and comprehensive introduction to the JavaScript language presented in an entertaining,... (New edition of The Book of JavaScript reviewed cont.)

PostgreSQL Supports Two-Phase Commit

May 8, 2006

The recent release of the 8.1 version of PostgreSQL provides a new feature that offers even more flexibility and scaling for End Point clients. That new feature is the support for "two-phase commit". ... (PostgreSQL Supports Two-Phase Commit cont.)