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.

Jon Jensen

Jon Jensen

Chief Technical Officer

With End Point Since: 2002
Location: Teton Valley, Idaho

Jon Jensen is an experienced software developer specializing in web applications, database schema design, and server clustering. He has been a core developer of the Interchange web application server platform since 2000.

Jon excels at networking, systems security, administration, and scalability of Linux and BSD Unix operating systems. He is also experienced with software packaging, version control systems, and multilingual software.

Senior Software Engineer for Red Hat from 2001-2002. Developer for the Red Hat ecommerce Suite and the Red Hat Intranet. Implemented and supported ecommerce websites for consulting clients.

Software Engineer at Akopia from 2000-2001. Contributed to Tallyman ecommerce software and combining it with MiniVend to create Interchange.

BA, Linguistics, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, 1998.

Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE), 2002.

Jon enjoys spending time with his family, reading, hiking, running, snowshoeing, and advocating free software. He is fluent in German.

Recent Blog Posts By Jon Jensen

July 28, 2010

This is a quick tip for anyone writing a cron job to purge large numbers of old files. Without xargs, this is a pretty common way to do such a purge, in this case of all files older than 31 days: fin... (Efficiency of find -exec vs. find | xargs cont.)

May 14, 2010

We were excited to learn yesterday that "flash sale" site JackThreads was acquired by Thrillist. Congratulations! End Point has provided technical assistance for the members-only JackThreads store in ... (Thrillist Buys JackThreads cont.)

April 16, 2010

Lately I've been looking back a bit at how things have changed in our work during the past decade. Maybe I'm a little behind the times since this is a little like a new year's reflection. Since 2000, ... (A decade of change in our work cont.)

March 30, 2010

This is a story that probably shouldn't need to be told if everything is in documentation somewhere. I'm not using any fancy virtualization management tools and didn't have an easy time piecing everyth... (Xen MAC mismatch VNC mouse escape HOWTO cont.)

March 9, 2010

It's becoming increasingly common for me to be involved in conversion of an old version of PostgreSQL to a new one, and at the same time, from an old "SQL_ASCII" encoding (that is, undeclared, unvalida... (PostgreSQL UTF-8 Conversion cont.)