| Douglas Crockford | |
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Douglas Crockford at the "Browser Wars: Episode II Attack of the DOMs" event on 2007-02-28 |
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| Born | Minnesota |
| Alma mater | San Francisco State University |
| Occupation | senior JavaScript architect |
| Employer | Yahoo |
| Known for | JavaScript Object Notation |
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| 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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He earned a degree in Radio and Television from San Francisco State University.[1]
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]