Dean Allen, Date of Birth, Date of Death
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Canadian typographer, web developer and blogger
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About Dean Allen
- Dean Cameron Allen (June 2, 1966 – January 13, 2018) was a Canadian typographer, web developer and early blogger.
- He created the markup language Textile, the open source content management system Textpattern, and the web hosting service TextDrive.
- 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.Allen was an early blogger and essayist in the late 90's at his site Cardigan Industries.
- He created Textile so that writers could "...Just Write and everything else should be there to support that endeavour."
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