This clause was carried over to JSMin-PHP, a variation of JSMin by Ryan Grove. In 2002, in reference to President George Bush's war on "evildoers", 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". See also: Open-source software § Definitions In July 2006, he specified the format officially, as RFC 4627. He obtained the domain name in 2002, and put up his description of the format there. ĭuring his time at State Software, Crockford popularized the JSON data format, based upon existing JavaScript language constructs, as a lightweight alternative to XML. Ĭrockford was the founder of State Software (also known as Veil Networks) and its CTO from 2001 to 2002. He was involved in the development of the programming language E. Together with Randy Farmer and Chip Morningstar, Crockford founded Electric Communities and was its CEO from 1994 to 1995. 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 Crockford's mounting frustrations as Nintendo's demands became more obscure and confusing. He 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. In 1984 Crockford joined Lucasfilm, and later Paramount Pictures. Īfter Warner Communications sold the company, he joined National Semiconductor. While at Atari, Crockford wrote another game, Burgers!, for APX and a number of experimental audio/visual demos that were freely distributed. Career Ĭrockford purchased an Atari 8-bit computer in 1980 and wrote the game Galahad and the Holy Grail for the Atari Program Exchange (APX), which resulted in Chris Crawford hiring him at Atari, Inc. He took classes in FORTRAN and worked with a university lab's computer. He was a senior JavaScript architect at PayPal until 2019, and is also a writer and speaker on JavaScript, JSON, and related web technologies.Ĭrockford earned a degree in Radio and Television from San Francisco State University in 1975. Of his books, "JavaScript: The Good Parts" was published in 2008, followed by "How JavaScript Works" in 2018. He specified the data format JSON (JavaScript Object Notation), and has developed various JavaScript related tools such as the static code analyzer JSLint and minifier JSMin. Douglas Crockford is an American computer programmer who is involved in the development of the JavaScript language.
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