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Douglas Crockford - Quality

Language : English Quality : High Has Audio : true Source : Yahoo Videos Media : Flash
Yahoo! JavaScript Architect Douglas Crockford provided the anchoring keynote for Yahoo!'s annual internal web-development conference. The subject of the talk is "Quality" -- the processes by which we engineer quality into our software and, of course, the processes by which we often fail to do so.

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  • Created : 2007-05-16   Duration : 48:23


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