Joseph J. Allaire Explained

J. J. Allaire
Birth Name:Joseph J. Allaire
Birth Date:1969 9, mf=yes
Birth Place:South Bend, Indiana, U.S.
Known For:ColdFusion, Allaire Corporation, Macromedia, Windows Live Writer, LoseIt!, RStudio
Alma Mater:Macalester College
Occupation:Entrepreneur, software engineer, inventor
Creator of ColdFusion, Founder of Allaire Corporation, Founder of Onfolio, Creator of Windows Live Writer, Founder of FitNow, Creator of Lose It!, Founder of Posit (formerly RStudio)
Relatives:Jeremy Allaire (brother)

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]

ColdFusion and Allaire Corporation

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

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.

Allaire Corporation had an initial public offering in 1999.[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 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.[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]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: From Macalaster to Millions//Newly Public Allaire Corp., Now Based in Boston, Springs From Liberal Arts-Grounded Talent . St. Paul Pioneer Press . January 26, 1999 . 2015-11-02 . David . Beal . dead . https://archive.today/20240527143059/https://www.webcitation.org/6cjFa0D56?url=http://infoweb.newsbank.com/resources/doc/nb/news/0EB5E38353880F8D%3Fp=AWNB . May 27, 2024 .
  2. Web site: Beef up your browser. PC Mag. October 9, 2014. 2015-11-02. Cade. Metz.
  3. Web site: Allaire sees stellar market debut . Boston Herald . January 23, 1999 . 2015-11-02 . Todd . Wallack . dead . https://archive.today/20240527143145/https://www.webcitation.org/6cjGE2X6D?url=http://infoweb.newsbank.com/resources/doc/nb/news/0EB4DAF2519867C2%3Fp=AWNB . May 27, 2024 .
  4. Web site: Massachusetts Rises Despite Passing of High-Tech Giants. Wall Street Journal. January 30, 1998. 2015-11-02. Jon. Auerbach. Ross. Kerber.
  5. Web site: Allaire Founder Debuts Online Research Tool. CRN. March 15, 2004. 2015-11-02. Tony. Kontzer.
  6. Web site: Weight-loss app Lose It! grows to 17M users, aims to rival Weight Watchers. Boston Business Journal. February 24, 2014. 2015-11-02. Sara. Castellanos.
  7. Web site: Macalester College Notable Alumni. America's Best Colleges 2010, Forbes. 2010. 2015-11-02.
  8. Web site: Turning Up the Heat on Mobile Application Development with ColdFusion 11. IDC White Paper. January 2015. 2015-11-02. Al. Hilwa. https://web.archive.org/web/20171003074746/http://coldfusion.adobe.com/coldfusion/TurningUpTheHeat.pdf. 2017-10-03. dead.
  9. Web site: How Brightcove's Jeremy Allaire Shaped the Online Video Revolution. Inc.. March 24, 2015. 2015-11-02. Helaine. Olen.
  10. Web site: ALLAIRE CORP. (ALLR) IPO. NASDAQ. 2015-11-02.
  11. Web site: Macromedia to Acquire Rival Allaire in $360 Million Deal. Wall Street Journal. January 17, 2001. 2015-11-02.
  12. Web site: Teague said to be leaving General Catalyst. Boston Business Journal. March 19, 2009. 2015-11-02. Galen. Moore.
  13. Web site: New Tool Cleans Up The Messy Business Of Web Research. Wall Street Journal. March 18, 2004. 2015-11-02. Walter. Mossberg.
  14. Web site: Microsoft Tweaks Its Toolbar With Onfolio Acquisition. Information Week. March 8, 2006. 2015-11-02. W. David. Gardner.
  15. Web site: Microsoft targets bloggers with 'Live Writer'. Seattle P-I. August 14, 2006. 2015-11-02. Todd. Bishop.
  16. Web site: OPEN WIDE: Microsoft Live Writer authoring tool going open source. The Register. July 15, 2015. 2015-11-02. Tim. Anderson.
  17. Web site: It's alive! Microsoft to let Live Writer live on as open source. Computer World. June 12, 2015. 2015-11-02. Gregg. Keizer.
  18. Web site: Video Feature: Apps for Tracking Fitness and Losing Weight. New York Times. March 18, 2015. 2015-11-02. Kit. Eaton.
  19. Web site: Review: Calorie counter apps MyFitnessPal vs. Lose It. USA Today. January 18, 2014. 2015-11-02. Jefferson. Graham.
  20. Web site: Boston-based Lose It! tops Apple iPhone health app charts. Boston Business Journal. January 21, 2010. 2015-11-02. Galen. Moore.
  21. Web site: A Weight-Loss Resolution That's Light on the Wallet. New York Times. December 30, 2009. 2015-11-02. Bob. Tedeschi.
  22. Web site: The 25 Best Fitness Apps. PC Mag. June 3, 2015. 2015-11-02. Jill. Duffy.
  23. Web site: InfoWorld Announces the 2015 Technology of the Year Award Recipients. www.globenewswire.com. January 26, 2015. 2020-06-23. https://web.archive.org/web/20200623054528/https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2015/01/26/1312049/0/en/InfoWorld-Announces-the-2015-Technology-of-the-Year-Award-Recipients.html. 2020-06-23. live.
  24. Web site: Grolemund . Yihui Xie, J. J. Allaire, Garrett . R Markdown: The Definitive Guide . Chapman and Hall/CRC . 11 April 2024 . 10.1201/9781138359444/markdown-yihui-xie-allaire-garrett-grolemund . 25 July 2018.
  25. Web site: Contributors to rstudio/rmarkdown . GitHub . 11 April 2024 . en.
  26. Web site: Contributors to rstudio/distill . GitHub . 11 April 2024 . en.
  27. Web site: Contributors to rstudio/flexdashboard . GitHub . 11 April 2024 . en.
  28. Web site: Contributors to rstudio/reticulate . GitHub . 11 April 2024 . en.
  29. Web site: Contributors to rstudio/tensorflow . GitHub . 11 April 2024 . en.
  30. Web site: Contributors to rstudio/keras . GitHub . 11 April 2024 . en.
  31. Web site: Contributors to quarto-dev/quarto-cli . GitHub . 11 April 2024 . en.
  32. Web site: Machlis . Sharon . 2022-07-28 . What is Quarto? RStudio rolls out next-generation R Markdown . 2024-05-17 . InfoWorld . en.

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