About Douglas Crockford
Douglas Crockford is a senior JavaScript Architect at Yahoo!. He is well known for his work in introducing JavaScript Object Notation (JSON). He has also worked on the computerization of media at Atari, Lucasfilm, and Paramount. Crockford was the founder and CEO of Electric Communities (also known as Communities.com) from 1993 to 2001, and the founder and CTO of State Software (also known as Veil Networks) from 2001 to 2002.
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“ I now see my early attempts to support the classical model in Javascript as a mistake ”
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“ My microwave oven has tons of features, but the only ones I use are cook and the clock. And setting the clock is a struggle. We cope with the complexity of feature-driven design by finding and sticking with the good parts. ”
In Book Review: JavaScript: The Good Parts
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Mentioned In 166 Articles
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YUI Theater — Douglas Crockford: “Crockford on JavaScript — Scene 6: Loopage” (52 min.)
Explore Article Yahoo! User Interface Blog (Aug 30 2010)
Douglas Crockford’s latest installment in the “Crockford on JavaScript” series, a talk in which he covers the role of... (Read Full Article)
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Validate() || Dont()
Explore Article Wait till I come! (Aug 16 2010)
...s are brutal and stupid machines. The results should be analysed and applied as they make sense. As Douglas Crockford says about JSLint: “it will hurt your feelings”. Therefore validators for me are a first step to fi... (Read Full Article)
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Free talk at Yahoo on the 27th about the software revolution that is JavaScript
Explore Article Ajaxian (Aug 11 2010)
Yahoo invites to their campus in Sunnyvale, California on the 27th of August to hear Douglas Crockford talk about “Loopage”. In his own words: Software development is hampered by a specific set of des...
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Douglas Crockford’s “Loopage” at August 27 BayJax Meetup
Explore Article Yahoo! User Interface Blog (Aug 9 2010)
... Douglas describes the new talk: Software development is hampered by a specific set of design [...] Douglas Crockford’s “Loopage” at August 27 BayJax Meetup August 9, 2010 at 3:02 pm by Eric Miraglia | In Development,...
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Front-Trends in Warsaw, 21/22 October
Explore Article QuirksMode (Aug 2 2010)
...obile. Tickets are inexpensive, not to say bloody cheap. € 198 to see a lot of good speakers (Douglas Crockford, Tantek Çelik, Dmitry Baranovskiy of Rafael.js, plenty of others) is not expensive. So if y... (Read Full Article)
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YUI Theater Comes to Boxee, Courtesy of Chad Auld and the Brilaps Team
Explore Article Yahoo! User Interface Blog (Jul 22 2010)
... for anyone who has been enjoying YUI Theater content and would like to catch up on the latest from Douglas Crockford, Brendan Eich and all the other great YUI Theater speakers from the comfort of his/her couch. (Read Full Article)
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JavaScript needs modules!, ctd
Explore Article The Mozilla Blog (Jul 9 2010)
...d the entire open web — a better development environment. One of the best practices on the web is Doug Crockford’s “module pattern,” which is a coding pattern for writing unobtrusive components that avoid steppi... (Read Full Article)
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5 JavaScript Books Worth Every Cent
Explore Article devcurry.com (Jul 7 2010)
...Oriented JavaScript code and the usage of patterns, is a reason why I strongly recommend this book. Douglas Crockford, as many of you already know, is a JavaScript champion and his advices on JavaScript is well known ...
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17 Hours of JavaScript from the Masters_单调世界_百度空间
Explore Article hi.baidu.com (Jul 2 2010)
... of them, in this roundup of ... 17 Hours of JavaScript from the Masters 2010年07月02日 星期五 10:39 A.M. Douglas Crockford. John Resig. Peter-Paul Koch. Nicolas C. Zakas. If you recognize these names, you probably know wha... (Read Full Article)
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TXJS JavaScript Conference Wrapup | RefreshTheNet
Explore Article RefreshTheNet (Jun 11 2010)
...80 attendees consisting of some of the most well-known JavaScript developers in the world including Douglas Crockford (JavaScript luminary), Pete Higgins (Dojo Project Lead), John Resig (creator of ... TXJS JavaScript...
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TXJS JavaScript Conference Wrapup - Rey Bango
Explore Article Rey Bango (Jun 10 2010)
...80 attendees consisting of some of the most well-known JavaScript developers in the world including Douglas Crockford (JavaScript luminary), Pete Higgins (Dojo Project Lead), John Resig (creator of ... TXJS JavaScript...
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Texas Javascript Conference » RubyGeek
Explore Article RubyGeek (Jun 6 2010)
... talks/discussions in a third room. It was sometimes hard to choose, but here’s what I attended: Douglas Crockford: Really, JavaScript? I really liked this talk, he spoke very frank about the language and highlig... (Read Full Article)
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The Ebooks Nest : Free Ebooks Download: Learning Javascrip and ...
Explore Article The Ebooks Nest (May 29 2010)
In this video JavaScript language designer and historian Douglas Crockford joins language designer Erik Meijer and jQuery creator John Resig to discuss JavaScript and web pro... (Read Full Article)
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Learning Javascrip and Jquery with Ms - Lazydesis
Explore Article Lazydesis (May 29 2010)
In this video JavaScript language designer and historian Douglas Crockford joins language designer Erik Meijer and jQuery creator John Resig to discuss JavaScript and web pro... (Read Full Article)
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The Big List of JavaScript, CSS, and HTML Development Tools ...
Explore Article Galaxy Blog 2 Menit (May 13 2010)
...y, he's done a boatload of testing so I know this list rocks. JSLint is the old mainstay created by Douglas Crockford but other have really become increasingly essential to good testing ... I’ve been meaning to do a r... (Read Full Article)
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