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 (Jackson Hole, Wyoming area)

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

Linux unshare -m for per-process private filesystem mount points

January 27, 2012

Private mount points with unshare Linux offers some pretty interesting features that are either new, borrowed, obscure, experimental, or any combination of those qualities. One such feature that is in... (Linux unshare -m for per-process private filesystem mount points cont.)

Our SoftLayer API tools

January 23, 2012

We do a lot of our hosting at SoftLayer, which seems to be one of the hosts with the most servers in the world -- they claim to have over 100,000 servers as of last month. More important for us than sh... (Our SoftLayer API tools cont.)

Converting CentOS 6 to RHEL 6

December 22, 2011

A few years ago I needed to convert a Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5 development system to CentOS 5, as our customer did not actively use the system any more and no longer wanted to renew the Red Ha... (Converting CentOS 6 to RHEL 6 cont.)

Sanitizing supposed UTF-8 data

December 17, 2011

As time passes, it's clear that Unicode has won the character set encoding wars, and UTF-8 is by far the most popular encoding, and the expected default. In a few more years we'll probably find discuss... (Sanitizing supposed UTF-8 data cont.)

Semaphore limits and many Apache instances on Linux

December 7, 2011

On some of our development servers, we run many instances of the Apache httpd web server on the same system. By "many", I mean 30 or more separate Apache instances, each with its own configuration file... (Semaphore limits and many Apache instances on Linux cont.)