Dean Cameron Allen (June 2, 1966January 13, 2018) was a

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typographer, web developer and early blogger. He created the markup language

Textile Textile is an umbrella term that includes various fiber-based materials, including fibers, yarns, filaments, threads, different fabric types, etc. At first, the word "textiles" only referred to woven fabrics. However, weaving is not t ...

, the open source content management system Textpattern, and the web hosting service

TextDrive TextDrive was founded in 2004 by the Canadian typographer, art director, designer, writer and programmer Dean Allen, the creator of Textile markup, who was looking to create an ideal hosting environment for the content management system A conten ...

. Textile, called "the world's greatest markup language" by Alec Kinnear of Foliovision, has been used in products such as Salesforce's Desk.com,

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, and issue tracking application Jira. Allen was an early blogger and essayist in the late 1990s 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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