Douglas Crockford speaking at Geek Meet September 2014

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Douglas and I have talked about him speaking at Geek Meet a few times when we’re ran into each other at different conferences in the world, and we’ve said that if he’s nearby Sweden, we just make it happen. Now is that time!

Douglas is coming to Sweden to speak at the Nordic.js conference, where I’m also speaking, and I thought that we just can’t miss this opportunity when he’s here. I’ve synced with the great and helpful organizers of the conference, so we will do a Geek Meet in the evening after the second/last day of Nordic.js – that way, anyone attending the conference can go to Geek Meet as well!

Douglas Crockford

Douglas is best known for his long work around JavaScript, and most notably discovering the JSON Data Interchange Format, that JavaScript has good parts and creating JSLint (JSLint on GitHub) to help developers write better JavaScript code and JSMin for minimizing it in a safe way.

When I got into JavaScript a long time ago, Douglas was a great inspiration and help to me with his work and pragmatic thoughts and experience around developing. Since then, I’ve been happy to bump into him at various conferences and to get the chance to talk about coding, travel, Lost and other interesting topics!

More information about Douglas can be found at:

The presentation

Douglas will give a presentation entitled The Better Parts, in which he will talk about new features in ES6, and a bit about JSON and JSLint.

Time & place

This Geek Meet will be sponsored by Creuna, and will take place September 19th at 19:00 in their office at Kungsholmsgatan 23 in Stockholm. Creuna will also provide beer/wine and pizza to every attendee, all free of charge.

The format is a bit different than usual at this time, with food and mingling at 19:00 and then a presentation starting 20:00 sharp by Douglas.

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