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.

Mike Farmer

Web application developer

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With End Point Since: 2011
Location: Idaho Falls, Idaho

Mike has been playing on a computer most of his life administering systems and developing interesting software. He spent his early years in Turbo Pascal which later evolved into Delphi development. Mike has focused much of his professional life developing database solutions and Business Intelligence systems in MySQL and Oracle.

Recently, Mike has been involved in building web applications using Ruby on Rails and is a proud Ruby community member. He also a contributor to the Kynetx open source platform and has experience with Linux system administration.

Data Warehouse Architect / Senior Developer, Kynetx, 2009–2011. Developed web applications with Ruby on Rails.

Application Analyst, BYU–Idaho, 2008–2009. Administered Blackboard LMS.

Oracle DBA / Data Warehouse Developer and Architect, Sento, 2000–2008. Used Star Schema data modeling, customized ETL with PL/SQL and Ruby, and created Business Intelligence tools using SAP Business Objects.

BS, Computer Information Technology, BYU–Idaho, 2009.

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Mike enjoys spending time with his young family. He also enjoys family history research, photography, and old movies.

Recent Blog Posts By Mike Farmer

Take a snapshot in Cucumber and sync it with Dropbox!

January 10, 2012

In a previous post I talked about running cucumber using capybara-webkit. In a recent project using this setup I noticed that I couldn't use capybara in connection with launchy to open up a page in the... (Take a snapshot in Cucumber and sync it with Dropbox! cont.)

Running Integration Tests in Webkit Without a Browser

December 8, 2011

As your ruby web applications increase in UI complexity, they get harder to test using the standard Cucumber or even RSpec integration test suites. This is because of introduction of JavaScript in your... (Running Integration Tests in Webkit Without a Browser cont.)

Using Set Operators with Ruby Arrays

June 7, 2011

The Array class in Ruby has many methods that are extremely useful. I frequently find myself going to the RDoc just to review the different methods and keeping myself up-to-speed on what options are av... (Using Set Operators with Ruby Arrays cont.)