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Dean Allen

Canadian typographer, web developer and blogger From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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Dean Cameron Allen (June 2, 1966  January 13, 2018) was a Canadian typographer, web developer and early blogger.[1][2] He created the markup language Textile, the open source content management system Textpattern, and the web hosting service TextDrive.[3] Textile, called "the world's greatest markup language" by Alec Kinnear of Foliovision, has been used in products such as Salesforce's Desk.com, Know Your Meme, and issue tracking application Jira.[4]

Allen was an early blogger and essayist in the late 1990s at his sites Cardigan Industries and Textism.[5][6] He created Textile so that writers could "...Just Write and everything else should be there to support that endeavour."[7]

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