End Point Team

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 (Chicago, Illinois area)

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

SQL errors in Interchange

September 7, 2011

Interchange has a little feature whereby errors in a [query] tag are reported back to the session just like form validation errors. That is, given the intentional syntax error here: [query ... sql="... (SQL errors in Interchange cont.)

jQuery and hidden elements

August 16, 2011

Out of sight, not out of mind. While extending some jQuery functionality on a page, I noted that a form element's "change" handler wasn't being invoked, which meant some of the page initialization cod... (jQuery and hidden elements cont.)

SeniorNet

June 7, 2011

SeniorNet is an organization dedicated to bringing education and technology access to older adults (50+). I began volunteering with them recently, coaching an intermediate Windows class. My role is to... (SeniorNet cont.)

Determining dominant image color

April 21, 2011

This grew out of a misunderstanding of a client’s request, so it never saw the light of day, but I thought it was an interesting problem. The request was to provide a “color search” of products... (Determining dominant image color cont.)

Use ZIP+4, except when you shouldn't

April 12, 2011

The USPS provides a handy API for looking up postal rates on the fly. Recently it started failing for code that had been working for a while, so I investigated. I found a couple of different problems w... (Use ZIP+4, except when you shouldn't cont.)