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 site Cardigan Industries.
[5] He created Textile so that writers could "...Just Write and everything else should be there to support that endeavour.