Essentials of Javascript - Cultural View
Essentials of Javascript - Cultural View
Essentials of Javascript - Cultural View
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Douglas Crockford 80<br />
Douglas Crockford<br />
Douglas Crockford<br />
Douglas Crockford at the "Browser Wars: Episode II Attack <strong>of</strong> the DOMs" event on 2007-02-28<br />
Born Minnesota<br />
Alma mater San Francisco State University<br />
Known for JavaScript Object Notation<br />
Website<br />
crockford.com [1]<br />
Douglas Crockford is an American computer programmer and entrepreneur, best known for his ongoing<br />
involvement in the development <strong>of</strong> the JavaScript language, and for having popularized the data format JSON<br />
(JavaScript Object Notation). He is currently a senior JavaScript architect at Yahoo!, and is also a writer and speaker<br />
on JavaScript, JSON, and related web technologies.<br />
Early years<br />
He earned a degree in Radio and Television from San Francisco State University. [2]<br />
Career<br />
Crockford worked on the computerization <strong>of</strong> media at Atari, Lucasfilm, and Paramount. He became something <strong>of</strong> a<br />
cult figure on videogame oriented listservs in the early 1990s after he posted his memoir "The Expurgation <strong>of</strong><br />
Maniac Mansion" to a videogaming bulletin board; the memoir documented his efforts to censor the computer game<br />
Maniac Mansion to Nintendo's satisfaction so that they could release it as a cartridge, and Crockford's mounting<br />
frustrations as Nintendo's demands became more obscure and confusing. [3]<br />
Together with Randy Farmer and Chip Morningstar, Crockford founded Electric Communities and was its CEO<br />
from 1993 to 2001. He was involved in the development <strong>of</strong> the programming language E.<br />
Crockford was also the founder <strong>of</strong> State S<strong>of</strong>tware (also known as Veil Networks) and its CTO from 2001 to 2002.<br />
During his time at State S<strong>of</strong>tware, Crockford popularized the JSON data format, based upon existing JavaScript<br />
language constructs, as a lightweight alternative to XML. He obtained the domain name json.org in 2002, and put up<br />
his description <strong>of</strong> the format there. [4] In July 2006 he specified the format <strong>of</strong>ficially, as RFC 4627. [5]<br />
Peter Seibel interviewed Crockford for his 2009 book Coders at Work, discussing the evolution <strong>of</strong> JavaScript<br />
standards. [6]
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