Google Tech Talks Web Exponents presented by Doug Crockford February 27, 2009 blog post: google-code-updates.blogspot.com JavaScript is a language with more than its share of bad parts. It went from non-existence to global adoption in an alarmingly short period of time. It never had an interval i...
In this 2007 presentation at Yahoo!, which is meant to be the beginning of a three-course sequence (followed by "Theory of the DOM" and then "Advanced JavaScript"), Douglas Crockford explores not only the language as it is today but also how the language came to be the way it is. Note: there's a ...
Douglas Crockford puts the JavaScript programming language in its proper historical context, tracing the language's structure and conventions (and some of its quirks) back to their roots in the early decades of computer science.
In this presentation (the third of a three-part series) Douglas Crockford looks closely at code patterns from which JavaScript programmers can choose in authoring their applications. He compares familiar constructs like the Pseudoclassical Pattern with more unique patterns like the Parasitic Patt...
In this keynote talk from YUIConf 2011, Yahoo! JavaScript architect Douglas Crockford drops some science to explain why code style is important in programming -- particularly in JavaScript -- and how tools like JSLint can help.
Yahoo!'s JavaScript architect Douglas Crockford continues his lecture series on the JavaScript programming language with a discussion of functions in JavaScript. "Functions are the very best part of JavaScript," Crockford says. "It's where the power is, it's where the beauty is." Watch the video ...
Yahoo!'s JavaScript architect Douglas Crockford concludes his five-part lecture series on the JavaScript programming language with a review of issues related to security and performance in JavaScript.
Yahoo!'s JavaScript architect Douglas Crockford continues his lecture series on the JavaScript programming language with an analysis of the Document Object Model (DOM) and an exploration of Ajax.
Recently, Douglas Crockford released a neat mini-tool that makes developing your JavaScript testing a little bit easier. Interested in learning more? Watch today’s quick tip to find out!
Yahoo!'s JavaScript architect Douglas Crockford surveys the features of the JavaScript programming language.
Yahoo! JavaScript architect Douglas Crockford tells the story of how JSON was discovered and how it became a major standard for describing data.
In this talk from the March 5, 2012 BayJax event at Yahoo!, Douglas Crockford outlines the basic principles of designing secure software, with a focus on web applications. With his usual sardonic wit, he starts at the beginning (almost literally -- with the invention of language itself) and makes...
There are lies, damned lies, and benchmarks. Tuning language processor performance to benchmarks can have the unintended consequence of encouraging bad programming practices. This is the true story of developing a new benchmark with the intention of encouraging good practices.
Software development is hampered by a specific set of design mistakes that were made in the first programming languages and repeated in everything that has been done since. And, somewhat miraculously, JavaScript is going to make it right, radically transforming the way we write applications. Agai...
In Level 7 of the Crockford on JavaScript series, Yahoo! JavaScript architect Douglas Crockford outlines the changes made to the language in the 5th edition of the ECMAScript standard.
Computer's multimedia editor Charles Severance captures a video interview with Douglas Crockford on the creation of JavaScript Object Notation (JSON). From Computer's March 2012 issue. www.computer.org Visit Computer: www.computer.org
