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.

Ron Phipps

Ecommerce specialist

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With End Point Since: 2006
Location: Santa Clarita, California

Ron has been working with Interchange since late 2000. After choosing Interchange as the primary platform for ecommerce development for his company Reliant Solutions, Ron went on to build many successful sites, including FrozenCPU.com, Backcountry.com, and Reliable-Medical.com. Ron's experience covers Interchange development, database design and implementation, and system adminstration. After working for himself for 9 years Ron decided it was time to join the talented team of developers at End Point and began working with them in August 2006.

FrozenCPU.com version 2.0. Rewrote the entire FrozenCPU.com site from the ground up using the latest Interchange release (v5.5).

Owner and Interchange Developer for Reliant Solutions.

Senior Software Developer for Plexis Healthcare Systems.

BS, Computer Science, Southern Oregon University, Ashland, Oregon, 2000.

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Ron enjoys playing poker with friends, video games, traveling with his wife Crystal, and snowboarding. Ron and Crystal play in a kickball league on Monday nights for one of the best teams in the league. Ron also travels the world competing in professional paintball with a top 4 team, New York NRG. Ron does not currently have children, but looks forward to starting a family in the years to come.

Recent Blog Posts By Ron Phipps

DevCamps on different systems, including Plesk, CPanel and ISPConfig

January 8, 2010

In the last few months I've been active setting up DevCamps for several of our newer clients. DevCamps is an open source development environment system, that once setup, allows for easily starting up ... (DevCamps on different systems, including Plesk, CPanel and ISPConfig cont.)

Setting up a login form in a controller other then the Users controller in CakePHP, don't forget the User model

November 25, 2009

I ran into an issue today while setting up a login form on the front page of a site that would post to the login action of the User controller. The issue was that when the the form was posted the App ... (Setting up a login form in a controller other then the Users controller in CakePHP, don't forget the User model cont.)

Dropped sessions when Ask.com Toolbar is installed

November 18, 2009

We've been dealing with an issue on a client's site where customers were reporting that they could not login and when they added items to their cart the cart would come up empty. This information point... (Dropped sessions when Ask.com Toolbar is installed cont.)

Apache RewriteRule to a destination URL containing a space

March 4, 2009

Today I needed to do a 301 redirect for an old category page on a client's site to a new category which contained spaces in the filename. The solution to this issue seemed like it would be easy and st... (Apache RewriteRule to a destination URL containing a space cont.)

Passenger and SELinux

March 2, 2009

We recently ran into an issue when launching a client's site using Phusion Passenger where it would not function with SELinux enabled. It ended up being an issue with Apache having the ability to read... (Passenger and SELinux cont.)