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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! Inc. ... Game design is the process of designing the content, background and rules of a game. ... In computer science, porting is the adaptation of a piece of software so that it will function in a different computing environment to that for which it was originally written. ... Maniac Mansion is a graphical adventure game originally released in 1987 by Lucasfilm Games (now known as LucasArts). ... By the mid 20th century humans had achieved a level of technological mastery sufficient to leave the surface of the planet for the first time and explore space. ... Computer programming (often simply programming) is the craft of implementing one or more interrelated abstract algorithms using a particular programming language to produce a concrete computer program. ... GAMES Magazine is a United States based magazine devoted to games published by GAMES Publications, a division of Kappa Publishing Group. ...

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. Yahoo! Inc. ... Nickname: Motto: Official website: http://www. ... 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Novato is a city located in northern Marin County, California. ... For the Cusco album, see 2002 (album). ... 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... CTO may refer to: Chief technical officer or Chief technology officer Cancelled to order (philately) Caribbean Tourism Organisation Cervical-thoracic orthosis Colorado Tourism Office Color Temperature Orange Commonwealth Telecommunications Organisation Community treatment order Check this out Configure-to-Order This page concerning a three-letter acronym or abbreviation is a... Nickname: Capital of Silicon Valley Official website: http://www. ... 2001: A Space Odyssey. ... For the Cusco album, see 2002 (album). ... Chief Executive Officer (CEO) is the job of having the ultimate executive responsibility or authority within an organization or corporation. ... Nickname: Motto: Official website: http://www. ... 1993 (MCMXCIII) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and marked the Beginning of the International Decade to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination (1993-2003). ... 2001: A Space Odyssey. ... Lucasfilm Logo Lucasfilm Ltd. ... Nicasio is a village located in the hills of west Marin County, California, United States. ... 1984 (MCMLXXXIV) was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1992 (MCMXCII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday. ... JSON (pronounced as IPA [dʒeɪsən]), which stands for JavaScript Object Notation, is a lightweight computer data interchange format. ...


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Douglas Crockford: JavaScript Hero - PeeaycHPee (302 words)
On the theater page, there are a number of talks from Yahoo!'s Javascript Architect, Douglas Crockford.
Crockford is a really smart guy, and if you do any JavaScript development, you owe it to yourself to spend 2 hours watching to his class, "The JavaScript Programming Language."
(Incidentally, Douglas Crockford is the guy behind JSLint, which I discovered, independently, before he mentioned it in the video.
Private Static Members in Javascript (4250 words)
Douglas Crockford has demonstrated that closures can be used to provide javascript objects with private members.
This is essentially taking Douglas Crockford's method for creating private instance members and applying it to the constructor itself to produce the same effect at the class level.
Douglas Crockford's technique for providing javascript objects with private static members has an impact on the way inheritance works with these objects.
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