Douglas Crockford is an American computer programmer who is involved in the development of the JavaScript language.
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11 Facts About Douglas Crockford
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Douglas Crockford specified the data format JSON, and has developed various JavaScript related tools such as the static code analyzer JSLint and minifier JSMin.
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Douglas Crockford was a senior JavaScript architect at PayPal until 2019, and is a writer and speaker on JavaScript, JSON, and related web technologies.
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Douglas Crockford earned a degree in Radio and Television from San Francisco State University in 1975.
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Douglas Crockford took classes in FORTRAN and worked with a university lab's computer.
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Douglas Crockford became known on video game oriented listservs in the early 1990s after he posted his memoir "The Expurgation of Maniac Mansion" to a videogaming bulletin board.
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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 Douglas Crockford's mounting frustrations as Nintendo's demands became more obscure and confusing.
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Together with Randy Farmer and Chip Morningstar, Douglas Crockford founded Electric Communities and was its CEO from 1994 to 1995.
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Douglas Crockford was the founder of State Software and its CTO from 2001 to 2002.
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In 2008 Douglas Crockford published a book announcing his discovery that Javascript, contrary to prevailing opinion, has good parts.
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In 2002, in reference to President George Bush's war on "evildoers", Douglas Crockford started releasing his JSMin software under a customized open source MIT License, with the added the requirement that "The Software shall be used for Good, not Evil".
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