New Jersey Liquid Galaxy Installation
By Ben Witten
November 10, 2021
End Point Dev installed a Liquid Galaxy system at the New Jersey office of one of our clients this past March. This marks the fifth office that our client is using to showcase a Liquid Galaxy, joining offices in 4 other states. This new seven-screen Liquid Galaxy system is built into a conference room wall, and will be used as a technological showpiece to allow their team and clients to view different locations, information, and datasets in an immersive and interactive environment.
As our team is headquartered in New York City, this was a relatively local installation. Our End Point Dev engineers initially spent three days installing this system at the client’s new office; however, due to unforeseen circumstances there were a couple of return trips made to finalize details and ensure the best possible product. We also provided one day of on-site system training, walking the team through using the system and creating presentations with the Content Management System.
All Liquid Galaxy content for this client has been prepared by their global marketing team, who build region-focused content for each of the different Liquid Galaxy systems. The team effectively builds interactive …
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.NET/C# developer job opening
By Jon Jensen
November 9, 2021
This position has been filled. See our active job listings here.
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We are seeking a full-time .NET/C# software developer based in the United States to work with us on our clients’ applications.
End Point Dev is an Internet technology consulting company based in New York City, with 50 employees serving many clients ranging from small family businesses to large corporations. The company is going strong after 26 years in business!
Even before the pandemic most of us worked remotely from home offices. We collaborate using SSH, Git, project tracking tools, Zulip chat, video conferencing, and of course email and phones.
What you will be doing:
- Develop new web applications and support existing ones for our clients.
- Work together with End Point Dev co-workers and our clients’ in-house staff.
- Use your desktop operating system of choice: Windows, macOS, or Linux.
- Enhance open source software and contribute back as opportunity arises.
You’ll need professional development experience with:
- 3+ years of development with .NET and C#
- Databases such as SQL Server, PostgreSQL, Redis, Solr, Elasticsearch, etc.
- Front-end web development with HTML, CSS, JavaScript and frameworks such as Vue, React, Angular …
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DevOps & Kubernetes engineer job opening
By Jon Jensen
November 4, 2021
This position has been filled. See our active job listings here.
We are looking for a full-time, salaried DevOps / Kubernetes engineer to work on cloud hosting projects with our clients and our internal hosting team.
End Point Dev is an Internet technology consulting company based in New York City, with 50 employees serving many clients ranging from small family businesses to large corporations. We are going strong after 26 years in business!
Even before the pandemic most of us worked remotely from home offices. We collaborate using SSH, Git, project tracking tools, Zulip chat, video conferencing, and of course email and phones.
What you will be doing:
- Automate, set up, support, and maintain complex containerized applications in the cloud.
- Audit and improve security, backups, reliability, monitoring.
- Work together with End Point Dev co-workers and our clients’ in-house staff.
- Use your desktop operating system of choice: Linux, macOS, or Windows.
- Work with open source software and contribute back as opportunity arises.
You’ll need professional experience with:
- Production Kubernetes administration on Amazon EKS (2+ years)
- Linux and common distributions including Ubuntu, RHEL/CentOS
- Public clouds such as AWS, GCP, Azure, Linode, …
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Java developer job opening
By Jon Jensen
November 3, 2021
This position has been filled. See our active job listings here.
We are seeking a full-time Java server-side software developer based in the United States to work with us on our clients’ applications.
End Point Dev is an Internet technology consulting company based in New York City, with 50 employees serving many clients ranging from small family businesses to large corporations. The company is going strong after 26 years in business!
Even before the pandemic most of us worked remotely from home offices. We collaborate using SSH, Git, project tracking tools, Zulip chat, video conferencing, and of course email and phones.
What you will be doing:
- Develop new web applications and support existing ones for our clients.
- Work together with End Point Dev co-workers and our clients’ in-house staff.
- Use your desktop operating system of choice: Linux, macOS, or Windows.
- Enhance open source software and contribute back as opportunity arises.
You’ll need professional development experience with:
- 4+ years of development with Java for server-side applications
- Frameworks and libraries such as Wildfly, Hibernate, Spring, Struts, Play
- Databases such as PostgreSQL, Redis, Solr, Elasticsearch, etc.
- Security consciousness, such as under HIPAA for safe …
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Rails developer job opening
By Jon Jensen
November 3, 2021
This position has been filled. See our active job listings here.
Photo by WOCinTech Chat, CC BY 2.0, cropped
We are seeking a full-time Ruby on Rails software developer based in the United States to work with us on our clients’ applications.
End Point Dev is an Internet technology consulting company based in New York City, with 50 employees serving many clients ranging from small family businesses to large corporations. The company is going strong after 26 years in business!
Even before the pandemic most of us worked remotely from home offices. We collaborate using SSH, Git, project tracking tools, Zulip chat, video conferencing, and of course email and phones.
What you will be doing:
- Develop new web applications and support existing ones for our clients.
- Work together with End Point Dev co-workers and our clients’ in-house staff.
- Use your desktop operating system of choice: Linux, macOS, or Windows.
- Enhance open source software and contribute back as opportunity arises.
You’ll need professional development experience with:
- 4+ years of development with Ruby on Rails
- JavaScript frameworks and libraries such as Vue.js, React, Angular
- Databases such as PostgreSQL, Redis, Solr, Elasticsearch, etc.
- Security consciousness, such as under …
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Generating TOTP QR codes as Unicode text from the command line
By Bharathi Ponnusamy
October 28, 2021
(QR = “Quick Response” — good to know!)
Python’s QR code generator library qrcode generates QR codes from a secret key and outputs to a terminal using Unicode characters, not a PNG graphic as most other libraries do. We can store that in a text file. This is a neat thing to do, but how is this functionality useful?
Benefits of having Unicode QR code as a text file:
- Storing the QR code as a text file takes less disk space than a PNG image.
- It is easy to read the QR code over ssh using the
catcommand; you don’t even have to download the file to your own workstation. - It is simpler to manage QR codes in Git as text files than as PNG images.
This can be used for any kind of QR code, but we have found it especially useful for managing shared multi-factor authentication (MFA, including 2FA for 2-factor authentication) secrets for TOTPs (Time-based One-Time Passwords).
Multi-factor authentication (MFA)
Many services provide a separate account and login for each user so that accounts do not need to be shared, and thus passwords and multi-factor authentication secrets do not need to be shared either. This is ideal, and what we insist on for our most important accounts. …
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.NET Conf 2021 is coming!
By Juan Pablo Ventoso
October 27, 2021
It’s that time of the year again! It has been almost one year since .NET 5 was launched at .NET Conf 2020, unifying .NET Framework and .NET Core into a single open-source and cross-platform framework. With .NET 6 around the corner, it’s time to prepare for the new edition, .NET Conf 2021, starting on November 9th.
This edition will be the 11th online conference, and the Agenda will mainly focus on the .NET 6 launch and the new C# 10, along with some coding challenges and community sessions. The event is organized by both the .NET community and Microsoft. The main changes that will likely be discussed at the conference, based on what we’ve seen through the previews, might include:
Mobile development
We will see several changes to how web mobile app development works under .NET 6. With a smaller, optimized, and optional SDK for mobile based on Xamarin, now called Multi-platform App UI or MAUI, developing an app that targets multiple mobile platforms should be simpler than ever.
Hot reload (after some struggling)
The Hot Reload feature, which will allow us to make and apply changes to the code at execution time, will be finally available in .NET 6. There was some …
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Moving to EndPointDev.com
By Rick Peltzman
October 21, 2021
Hello to all our cherished clients and friends. I am excited to make an announcement!
End Point has changed our domain name from EndPoint.com to EndPointDev.com.
While our official legal name remains End Point Corporation, we are also updating our branding to match our new domain name. You will notice on our website that we are now referring to ourselves as End Point Dev, the “Dev” being short for “development.”
There are many companies named End Point and there has been a little confusion about this over the years. None of the other End Points (or “Endpoints”) do the type of development work that we do. They range from a utility company to a title insurance company to a medical lab services company and beyond. In our quest to separate ourselves and distinguish who we are, we are transitioning to EndPointDev.com.
From now on you will receive email from, and send email to, your contacts here with their new suffix-adjusted domain names, e.g., instead of rick@endpoint.com use rick@endpointdev.com. After December 1, 2021, expect your emails to bounce back if you do not use the new and correct email address.
This change also holds true for our group/alias addresses that you may be …
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