Douglas Crockford

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Douglas Crockford is a developer who currently works for Yahoo!. He is known for his work in video game design, including the porting of Maniac Mansion. He maintains a website with content related to language, technology, programming, and games named Crockford's Wrrrld Wide Web. His blog contains information about some places he has worked, including:

Yahoo! Architect! – Sunnyvale, California 2005 to present
Faceless Corporation Chief Honcho – Novato, California 2002-2005
State Software aka Veil Networks CTO – San Jose, California 2001-2002
Electric Communities aka Communities.com CEO – Cupertino, California 1993-2001
Lucasfilm Ltd. Director of Technology – Nicasio, California 1984-1992

Crockford discovered JSON, the data interchange format. He is the author of JSLint, the JavaScript Verifier. He was the leader singer in GUT, the first boy band of the 70s.

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