JSON: The Data Format of the Stars and JavaScript: A Language of Many Contrasts

Douglas Crockford, Yahoo! and evanglist for JSON.org

Douglas Crockford is a fascinating speaker, and is one of the major luminaries in the JavaScript field, with a long career (and a Wikipedia entry yet), and the developer and principle evangelist of JSON, a standard for transferring data objects that use a low bandwidth JavaScript like syntax.

He had two sessions “JSON:The Data Format of the Stars” and “Professional JavaScript”, I caught the first session late, unfortunately (business intervened) so won’t attempt to summarize it here, though I plan to cover it far more in an upcoming article I’m writing on JSON.

There are a lot of useful pieces of information in his talks, but most of these can be found at http://javascript.crockford.com, which I would heartily recomment that you bookmark if you do anything related to JavaScript.

Okay, signing off for today - I will be posting the contents of my own talk tomorrow, and hope to continue coverage of AJAXWorld.