Janos P Toth
Weekdays I get HTML5/JS stuff done and play with crayons at Lightbox.
Weekends I'm fiddling with PicFog quick image search and StartupCharts.
Have a look around and contact me if you need stuff.
(Looking for Bubble Trouble? Really?)
- CV: Linkedin
- Twitter: @tjp
- Tumblr: Bits done
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- SummarySeasoned front-end web developer, specialising in JavaScript / HTML5 magic, mediation between real people and developers; and making complicated interfaces, well, less complicated.
If you're a recruiter, a friendly warning: you'll have to find out how to pronounce my name correctly - otherwise our chat will be cut short. (If you're not a recruiter, you can call me whatever you like)Specialties: JavaScript, jQuery, HTML5 video, handling (a lot of) pictures, avoiding race conditions, fitting interfaces, helping real people understand developers.Experience- Jun 2011 - PresentSoftware engineer / LightboxBuilding all HTML5 + CSS + JS presence of the Lightbox Android app with in a small & agile team. This includes: - Building responsive HTML profile pages - Building HTML5 activity feed in the Android app with JavaScript interface to communicate with the native part of the application. - Experimenting with various ways to display images better - Building various splash pages for press events / conferences. Also involved in mining data for finding feedback on design / interface changes and giving feedback to the designer on what changes make positive impact. Lightbox got acquired by Facebook in May 2012.
- Sept 2010 - PresentOrganizer / StartupChartsStartupCharts maps the local startup scene - enables the newcomer to find the most important people and the most interesting startups in an area. http://startupcharts.com/
- Feb 2009 - PresentFounder / PicFogUsing twitter and the connecting image upload services, PicFog shows pictures from twitter as they're posted, in real time. You don't even need a twitter account to enjoy the benefits - and you can filter by any keyword, location or twitter user. More about PicFog: http://picfog.com/about Press mentions: http://press.picfog.com/
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Interests:user experience, realtime web, interface architecture
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Tweets
- trick question of the day - any uk companies tried to copy the valve model? http://t.co/crYVzjuO
- Looking for a writer? The local hammersley, @planetdamage is moving to London. Check out his CV: http://t.co/PVeQ67cy
- @essjaywood 'm always very colourful! or shall i say colorful
- runningastartup tumblr is weirdly enjoyable. startup commonplace + gif = fun! http://t.co/FUasKv5L
- Twitter is suddenly going to suck less - is it too late though. http://t.co/OdQTbh8c
- Are you a hacker/designer/geek between 18 and 23? Spend your summer in the heart of Europe working on cool stuff! Apply http://t.co/etxF4Cws
- i'm very tempted http://t.co/wmW64fRy
- @kevindebaere what if i mean kung fu? (i don't obv)
- I know kung-fu.
- If you average together the taste in pop music of all of Europe, you get a Hungarian. http://t.co/SzPTCcPz
- i have figured it out!
- London’s Top Brutalist Buildings | Londonist http://t.co/OxIiuodL
- Pinterest does interest-looking layout in their emails. Lots of tables!
- @cdmh i'm afraid it was a metaphor when I saw a dead phone… no disks here.
- Non-system disk or disk error Replace and strike any key when ready
- janos this is still amazing! "near:" queries in the twitter api http://t.co/r9aBAQ5t
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- Lightbox is joining Facebook!
We started Lightbox because we were excited about creating new services built primarily for mobile, especially for the Android and HTML5 platforms, and we’re honored that millions of you have downloaded the Lightbox Photos app and shared your experiences with the Lightbox community.
Today, we’re happy to announce that the Lightbox team is joining Facebook, where we’ll have the opportunity to build amazing products for Facebook’s 500+ million mobile users.
This means we’re no longer accepting new signups. If you’re an existing user, you can continue to use Lightbox.com until June 15 and you can download your photos from here.
Facebook is not acquiring the company or any of the user data hosted on Lightbox.com. In the coming weeks, we will be open sourcing portions of the code we’ve written for Lightbox and posting them to our Github repository.
We’d like to thank the Lightbox community, our investors, and our families for supporting us during this journey.
Thai Tran & Nilesh Patel
Co-founders, Lightbox Elling (2001)
director: Petter Næss
“How different people are. Some people ski solo to the South Pole, - while I have to summon all my courage to cross a restaurant floor.”
- Javascript - only three "bad" parts
I know that Douglas Crockford and many others will disagree with this, but from my point of view, there are only three “bad” parts to javascript.
- How does
thiswork? - How does prototypical inheritance work?
- Named Function Expression? Function Declaration? Hoisting?
Once a developer understands these three things in Javascript, they’re solidly on their way to rolling their eyes when they’re asked if they are a ninja at cocktail parties. It is these three concepts, in my opinion, that trip up most developers as they start to build applications larger than jQuery spaghetti.
There’s a much longer list in Javascript:The Good Parts and even more in our hearts. But I don’t think that these actually trip us up in daily development. When was the last time that you had a really hard time using the
voidkeyword or were foiled by type coersion? All of these issues, we learn once, and almost immediately understand. Either that, or developers don’t encounter these because the libraries that they use, and learn from, don’t use any (anti-)features either.Not only are issues like
withandevalnot often encountered, but also, tools like jshint/lint, remove any accidental uses. Chances are, as long as a developer l/hints their code, they’ll be making a conscious decision to use the potentially dangerous parts of the language. It isn’t so with these three concepts. Without this understanding, it is very difficult to become productive in javascript.Other than these three concepts, I’d argue that Javascript is no more “bad” than any other mainstream programming language, like PHP or even Java. There are gotchas in every language and at least JS has most of them described very well in The Good Parts and online documentation.
I could give you my own explanations here, but so many others have done a much better job than I could. There are a lot of options. If you still feel confused after reading one, just go on to the next one. If you still feel confused after reading every single one. Find me or someone else in ##javascript on freenode.
How doesthiswork?- PPK’s “this” blog post (from the DOM perspective)
- Understanding JavaScript Function Invocation and “this”
- Understanding JavaScript’s this keyword
- How
thisis resolved
The key here is to first learn about prototypical inheritance using
Object.createand then come back to trying to understand what the new operator is doing. Most tutorials mess this up, by explaining it the “classical” way first, and subsequently lead to much confusion about following the prototype chain and this and that.- Prototypes: The Short(est Possible) Story
- Understanding JavaScript OOP
- Eloquent Javascript: Object Oriented Programming
- Named function expressions demystified
- Immediately-Invoked Function Expression (IIFE)
- JavaScript Scoping and Hoisting
- Function Hoisting
- Quick Tip: JavaScript Hoisting Explained
Do you have more examples or blog posts? Let me know on twitter and I’ll add them to this list.
- How does
I’m really happy with this one I’m into stitching with my cottons lately rather than doing the whole sculpture reverse appliqued, i don’t think my favorite technique will ever be replaced though I’m too obsessed
Suggested by: Sam
Life is a circle!
Check out the live stream on Lightbox - it shows currently popular photos in a never-ending stream.
- NUTS!
correct, correct, correct.
Business Insider on January 6, 2011 after OMGPOP’s $10 million Series B:
IS HE NUTS? This Guy Thinks He Can Beat A $5.5 Billion Company With A $10 Million Funding Round
Business Insider today after OMGPOP was purchased for about $200 million by aforementioned $5.5 billion (now public) company, Zynga:
“OMGPop Sold Way Too Early — They Left $800 Million On The Table”
You literally cannot win.
If they had turned down the offer, the headline would have been:
OMG: OMGPOP Nuts To Turn Down Zynga’s $200 Million Offer
Until a year from now when the follow-up headline would have been:
NUTS: OMGPOP Takes Zynga’s Billion Dollar Offer But Should Have Held Out A Year To Buy Zynga
Being right doesn’t matter. Only saying something, anything matters.
