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Joseph J. Allaire

Joseph J. Allaire (born 1969),[1] better known professionally as J. J. Allaire, is an American-born software engineer and Internet entrepreneur. He created the ColdFusion programming language and web application server,[2][3][4] founded Allaire Corporation, OnFolio,[5] FitNow,[6] and RStudio, and created LoseIt! and Windows Live Writer. Allaire is currently the founder and CEO of statistical computing company Posit (formerly RStudio Inc).

Early life

Joseph J Allaire received his bachelor's degree from Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota in 1991.[7][1]

ColdFusion and Allaire Corporation

In 1995, Allaire created ColdFusion.[3][2][4][8] The same year, Allaire founded Allaire Corporation in Minneapolis, Minnesota.[3]

Allaire moved the company to Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1996 with his brother and founding team member, Jeremy Allaire.[9] Allaire served as the Chairman and CEO of Allaire Corporation, then as its Executive Vice President of Products after hiring David Orfao as the company's CEO.[1]

Allaire Corporation had an initial public offering in 1999.[3][10] In 2001, Allaire Corporation was acquired by Macromedia.[11]

Onfolio, Microsoft, and Windows Live Writer

In 2002, Allaire co-founded Onfolio with Adam Berrey[5] and Charles Teague[12] and led the development of its suite of tools for web research and publishing,[13] released in 2004. Onfolio was acquired by Microsoft in 2006.[14] At Microsoft, Allaire created a blog publishing product called Windows Live Writer, initially released in 2007.[15][16] Windows Live Writer was distributed by Microsoft as part of Windows Essentials, until it was discontinued in 2015 and forked into an open-source version called Open Live Writer.[17]

FitNow and Lose It!

In 2008, Allaire, Paul DiCristina and Charles Teague co-founded FitNow, a company dedicated to mobile health and fitness applications, and created Lose It!, a mobile weight loss application with over 17 million users.[6][18][19][20][21][22]

RStudio

In 2009, Allaire founded RStudio, a company that builds tools for the R statistical computing environment. Allaire created the company's flagship product RStudio, a 2015 InfoWorld Technology of the Year Award recipient.[23]

Beginning in 2013, Allaire worked on the R Markdown ecosystem of scientific publishing packages, including R Markdown, Distill for R, and Flexdashboard.[24][25][26][27] From 2018 through 2020, Allaire worked on R interfaces to Python, and R versions of the TensorFlow and Keras Python packages.[28][29][30]

In 2021, Allaire and Charles Teague created Quarto, a Jupyter-based scientific publishing system.[31] Quarto was publicly announced in 2022.[32]

References

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  9. ^ Olen, Helaine (March 24, 2015). "How Brightcove's Jeremy Allaire Shaped the Online Video Revolution". Inc. Retrieved 2015-11-02.
  10. ^ "ALLAIRE CORP. (ALLR) IPO". NASDAQ. Retrieved 2015-11-02.
  11. ^ "Macromedia to Acquire Rival Allaire in $360 Million Deal". Wall Street Journal. January 17, 2001. Retrieved 2015-11-02.
  12. ^ Moore, Galen (March 19, 2009). "Teague said to be leaving General Catalyst". Boston Business Journal. Retrieved 2015-11-02.
  13. ^ Mossberg, Walter (March 18, 2004). "New Tool Cleans Up The Messy Business Of Web Research". Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 2015-11-02.
  14. ^ Gardner, W. David (March 8, 2006). "Microsoft Tweaks Its Toolbar With Onfolio Acquisition". Information Week. Retrieved 2015-11-02.
  15. ^ Bishop, Todd (August 14, 2006). "Microsoft targets bloggers with 'Live Writer'". Seattle P-I. Retrieved 2015-11-02.
  16. ^ Anderson, Tim (July 15, 2015). "OPEN WIDE: Microsoft Live Writer authoring tool going open source". The Register. Retrieved 2015-11-02.
  17. ^ Keizer, Gregg (June 12, 2015). "It's alive! Microsoft to let Live Writer live on as open source". Computer World. Retrieved 2015-11-02.
  18. ^ Eaton, Kit (March 18, 2015). "Video Feature: Apps for Tracking Fitness and Losing Weight". New York Times. Retrieved 2015-11-02.
  19. ^ Graham, Jefferson (January 18, 2014). "Review: Calorie counter apps MyFitnessPal vs. Lose It". USA Today. Retrieved 2015-11-02.
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  21. ^ Tedeschi, Bob (December 30, 2009). "A Weight-Loss Resolution That's Light on the Wallet". New York Times. Retrieved 2015-11-02.
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  24. ^ Grolemund, Yihui Xie, J. J. Allaire, Garrett (25 July 2018). "R Markdown: The Definitive Guide". Chapman and Hall/CRC. doi:10.1201/9781138359444/markdown-yihui-xie-allaire-garrett-grolemund. Retrieved 11 April 2024.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
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  26. ^ "Contributors to rstudio/distill". GitHub. Retrieved 11 April 2024.
  27. ^ "Contributors to rstudio/flexdashboard". GitHub. Retrieved 11 April 2024.
  28. ^ "Contributors to rstudio/reticulate". GitHub. Retrieved 11 April 2024.
  29. ^ "Contributors to rstudio/tensorflow". GitHub. Retrieved 11 April 2024.
  30. ^ "Contributors to rstudio/keras". GitHub. Retrieved 11 April 2024.
  31. ^ "Contributors to quarto-dev/quarto-cli". GitHub. Retrieved 11 April 2024.
  32. ^ Machlis, Sharon (2022-07-28). "What is Quarto? RStudio rolls out next-generation R Markdown". InfoWorld. Retrieved 2024-05-17.