- Douglas Crockford
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Douglas Crockford 
Douglas Crockford at the "Browser Wars: Episode II Attack of the DOMs" event on 2007-02-28Born Minnesota Alma mater San Francisco State University Occupation senior JavaScript architect Employer Yahoo Known for JavaScript Object Notation Website crockford.com Douglas Crockford is an American computer programmer and entrepreneur, best known for his ongoing involvement in the development of the JavaScript language, and for having popularized the data format JSON (JavaScript Object Notation), and for developing JSLint. He is currently a senior JavaScript architect at Yahoo!, and is also a writer and speaker on JavaScript, JSON, and related web technologies such as the Yahoo! User Interface Library (YUI).
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Early years
He earned a degree in Radio and Television from San Francisco State University.[1]
Career
Crockford worked on the computerization of media at Atari, Lucasfilm, and Paramount. He became something of a cult figure on video game oriented listservs in the early 1990s after he posted his memoir "The Expurgation of Maniac Mansion" to a videogaming bulletin board; the memoir documented his efforts to censor the computer game Maniac Mansion to Nintendo's satisfaction so that they could release it as a cartridge, and Crockford's mounting frustrations as Nintendo's demands became more obscure and confusing.[2]
Together with Randy Farmer and Chip Morningstar, Crockford founded Electric Communities and was its CEO from 1994 to 1995. He was involved in the development of the programming language E.
Crockford was also the founder of State Software (also known as Veil Networks) and its CTO from 2001 to 2002.
During his time at State Software, Crockford popularized the JSON data format, based upon existing JavaScript language constructs, as a lightweight alternative to XML. He obtained the domain name json.org in 2002, and put up his description of the format there.[3] In July 2006 he specified the format officially, as RFC 4627.[4]
Peter Seibel interviewed Crockford for his 2009 book Coders at Work, discussing the evolution of JavaScript standards.[5]
Works
- JavaScript: The Good Parts. O'Reilly. 2008. ISBN 978-0596517748. OCLC 192027457. http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596517748/..
References
- ^ Douglas Crockford speaker biography, New Paradigms for Using Computers conference, IBM Almaden Research Center, August 22, 1996
- ^ The Expurgation of Maniac Mansion: A Memoir by Douglas Crockford
- ^ JSON: The Fat-Free Alternative to XML, Douglas Crockford, December 6, 2006
- ^ RFC 4627: The application/json Media Type for JavaScript Object Notation (JSON)
- ^ Coders at Work:Douglas Crockford, Peter Seibel's Coders at Work website
External links
Categories:- American computer programmers
- JavaScript
- Living people
- People from Minnesota
- San Francisco State University alumni
- Computer specialist stubs
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