Douglas Crockford
The Ajax Experience
Boston · October 23 - 25, 2006
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!.
Presentations
JSON: The X in Ajax
JSON is a universal data format. It provides an uncommonly effective bridge for moving data between systems and between languages. It is rendering the X in AJAX superfluous. JSON is also really simple. Bonus: A Solution to the Mashup Security Problem.
JavaScript: A Language of Many Contrasts
JavaScript is a programming language with enormous expressive power. This presentation will explore the use of some of JavaScript's most advanced features, including the use of lambda and functional programming, and prototypal and parasitic inheritance patterns.