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XTech 2008: “The Web on the Move” — 6-9 May 2008, Dublin, Ireland
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Douglas Crockford

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Douglas Crockford is a product of our public education 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 interested in Blissymbolics, a graphical, symbolic language. He is developing a secure programming language. He is now an architect at Yahoo!.

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11:00 Wednesday, 7 May 2008
JavaScript: The Good Parts
Ajax Goldsmiths 1
Douglas Crockford (Yahoo!)
In JavaScript there is a beautiful, highly expressive language that is buried under a steaming pile of good intentions and blunders. My intention here is to expose the goodness in JavaScript, an outstanding dynamic programming language. Within the language is an elegant subset that is vastly superior to the language as a whole, being more reliable, readable, and maintainable. Read more.