Blog — Timothy Marois

Hello, I’m Timothy Marois, this is my initial post and a brief introduction about me and my background.

I built this website back in 2007 when it was used as my online portfolio and résumé for many years. I have decided this year to expand the website and share a lot of the coding resources, experiences, and tips I’ve picked up over the years.

I hope you find it useful and if there is any way that I can help with your coding journey, please feel free to send me a message.

A little Social Media

A few years ago, I created two Instagram accounts @timothymarois and @codingview. There was a couple of us that started this trend where each week we’d post a new picture of our Macbooks or coding setup with an unusual/scenic view while attempting to code, it revolved around the hashtag #codingview. It has seemed to grow quite larger than I originally thought it would. Developers all over the world have continued this concept.

Throughout the time I was active, I would receive many messages from developers looking for advice or coding mentorships. This inspired me to create a blog or originally, write a book to help others trying to learn.

I have created this blog with the hope I can help others, and create a community to collaborate with like-minded people.

The sunrise across the beach in Santa Barbara California. I began coding when I was 16. The thrill of building a platform to promote my console games changed my pathway into learning vast web technologies. Now I've built mods, features, and websites

You gotta live a little. Work hard, play hard.

Incredible view watching the sunset in Rhode Island. Every chance I get I'm pushing some new updates, I usually work on 3-5 different projects depending on motivation and time. Lately, however, I've been doing a lot of traveling; within the last six

In Boston, there's a tunnel that stretches 3 miles under the city. It was unofficially called "the big dig." It's the most expensive highway project in US history; estimated to cost nearly $3 billion to construct in 1982, but ended up costi

It’s nearly complete. Mounted two more 70-inch displays, and added the strip lighting. The place looks like a command center. Not exactly a coding ideal, but a presentation heaven. When in doubt, always add more screen. I can’t stand depr

I finally figured out where these LED lights are going to go. We’ve been revamping our office the last few days and its becoming NASA’s command center. I’ll share it with you all tomorrow morning in my next post! Have a great Sunday

We made it to Santa Barbara California. I'm still adjusting to the time zone shift. Decided to head over to the beach at 6 am to watch the sunrise. - Get out there and start something big. Hustle. Don't be afraid to fail, keep moving forward and ever

It’s not what you do that makes you great. It’s what happens afterward that incites greatness. You always have to ask yourself, why so often than not, do great people die before their time. It makes you wonder if those who can accomplish

I have snow; you have snow. We both have buildings. You have 8 million people; I have 2 million. You have bridges; I have mountains. But together we create amazing work. This year will be an incredible journey. On my list, for travel is Santa Barbra

The last real coding session before we bring in the new year. I've always been fascinated by architecture; city skylines can be really amazing. When I look at large high rises, I always think to myself, who funded that, where did the money come from

My Background

When I was younger, I’ve always wanted to entertain people. My role in life grew further away from the spotlight and instead behind the scenes. Here is my short story.

It all started with building games. My most notable game was Road Master. It was similar to a platform game where you run on a flat 2D board and jump other cars. The objective was to escape the police.

What made this game unpredictable was the way I designed how the police would drive on the map. You couldn’t predict where or how fast they could drive. The longer you played, the more police cars would chase you, the player could continue until they got caught, racking up the highest score possible.

We would burn these games onto CDs and pass them out in school. As you can tell, that was a very limited audience, there was no steam or online platforms that made distributing indie games easy or even accessible.

This started my new interest in building websites to promote games that I’ve built.

Web Design

A quick glance of the websites and designs i’ve built back in 2007

I began experimenting with websites to promote these games. The first site I built was called TMJR Studio, and then the company LTcolor, Inc was born. Building websites has changed my life forever, and to this day, I have focused all my time and energy using web technologies.

For a couple of years around 2007, I shifted into designing websites for clients, which included many local companies and organizations in Rhode Island/Massachusetts area.

Trading Platform

In 2009 – I built a trading algorithm called NATE (Network Auto Trade Engine). This engine would decide the value of each site visitor and send them to a partner website in real-time based on the current exchange rate. This is what we would call in the industry “Trading Traffic”.

I sold one of my properties and then decided to grow in this field of web development.

Ideal Internet

January of 2010 – I moved to Charlotte, North Carolina to help build a content marketing agency with a few online friends.

I worked with Ideal Internet and implemented a new version of NATE called Ideal Core. This version was advanced for its time compared to its competitors, and the exchange was a hundred times that of the previous system, reaching over 1.5 million users a month. I led the development of the content management system that helped us automate many tedious tasks and eliminated unnecessary operating costs.

I worked on many other projects at Ideal Internet, from building a custom CMS, a network of online gaming websites with user profiles, and we spent a lot of time building highly optimized advertisement algorithms and display systems to maximize revenue.

SpendReturn

Around 2012 – I joined forces to help create a new Advertising Platform, SpendReturn. I developed the client-facing interface and backend optimization system. SpendReturn was designed to help website owners maximize their ROI by dynamically optimizing the content on their pages with A/B testing advertisement placement.

The platform had a lot of potentials and it was a really fun creative project to work on, but we later decided to shut it down and focus on other revenue streams.

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