Douglas Crockford

Creator of JSON

Crock is a product of our public school system. A registered voter, he owns his own car. He has developed office automation systems. He did research in games and music at Atari. He was Director of Technology at Lucasfilm. He was Director of New Media at Paramount. He was the founder and CEO of Electric Communities/Communities.com. He was founder and CTO of State Software, where he discovered JSON. He is now an architect at Yahoo!.

Blog

A Modest Proposal

Posted Thursday, March 27, 2008

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hash

Posted Tuesday, March 25, 2008

Any HTML tag that accepts a src= or href= attribute should also be allowed to take a hash= attribute. The value of a hash attribute would be the base 32 encoding of the SHA of the object that would be retrieved. Thismore »

vat

Posted Monday, March 24, 2008

The HTML environment lacks modularity. It is not possible to run guest code and be confident that it will not attack. Some of the populamore »

Presentations

JavaScript: The Good Parts

Hidden deep inside of JavaScript is an elegantly beautiful programming language. more »

KEYNOTE - The State of Ajax

With Ajax, a name was given to immediately interactive distributed applications, and the focus of innovation has moved from the browser makers to the web developers. We are seeing now an explosion of application patterns and styles. more »

JSON

JSON is quickly becoming the world's most popular data interchange format. It is simple, textual, and is able to represent the data structures used in modern programming languages. more »

JavaScript: The Good Parts

By Douglas Crockford

Hidden deep inside of JavaScript is an elegantly beautiful programming language.

In this session, Ajaxmage Douglas Crockford shows how to peel away the layers of cruft and good intentions to reveal the true nature and power of the language.

KEYNOTE - The State of Ajax

By Douglas Crockford

In some cases, the demands of Ajax developers have gotten significantly ahead of the browsers. How will we manage large applications? How will we manage offline usage? How will we manage security when the browser's security model is hopelessly out of date?

JSON

By Douglas Crockford

JSON is quickly becoming the world's most popular data interchange format. It is simple, textual, and is able to represent the data structures used in modern programming languages.

We will look at JSON, past and future, including some important recent developments.