Nick Bradbury in 2006.
Nicholas J. Bradbury (born May 11, 1967) is a British-American software developer who created the HomeSite HTML editing tool, which was acquired by Allaire, then Macromedia,[1] and finally absorbed into Adobe Dreamweaver.[2]
Early life[]
Bradbury was born in England and relocated with his family to the United States at an early age.[3] He became interested in computers when his father gave him a TRS-80 Color Computer, which he used to write the games Moon Runner and Penguin Icarus.[4]
Education[]
Bradbury enrolled in computer science at the University of Missouri–Rolla. However, he soon lost interest in computers and switched to the University of Tennessee–Knoxville in 1988.[4] He became an award-winning cartoonist at the campus newspaper The Daily Beacon and received a B.S. in journalism in 1991.[1]
Career[]
After briefly working as an editorial cartoonist, Bradbury resumed working on his personal strip called Dexter and developed HomeSite in Visual Basic as a way to maintain the comic website. He later rewrote in Delphi for speed and released it in July 1996.[1][5] After he notified some shareware sites about it, he discovered HomeSite had been downloaded over a thousand times during the first night.[5][1][6] Microsoft made the first offer to acquire HomeSite, but Bradbury ended up taking a counter-offer from Allaire Corporation in March 1997 and continued working on HomeSite as a commercial product for 18 months.[1] In March 2001, Allaire was acquired by Macromedia,[7] which itself was acquired by Adobe Systems in December 2005.[8]
After leaving Allaire, Bradbury founded Bradsoft and created TopStyle, a more sophisicated integrated development environment (IDE) for editing CSS, HTML, and XHTML. A "Lite" version of TopStyle 2.0 was licensed by Macromedia for inclusion with JRun Studio, which itself was based on HomeSite by Bradbury.[9] The "Lite" version was also bundled with Macromedia HomeSite and Dreamweaver MX, which included an extension that allowed TopStyle to be used as a dedicated CSS editor. In December 2008, TopStyle was acquired by independent software developer Stefan van As.[10][11]
Since June 2013, Bradbury has been a "mobile wrangler" for Automattic, the developers of WordPress.[12]
Personal life[]
Bradbury lost hearing in his left ear in 2005 due to the removal of a tumor that had been detected in the area. He took up yoga to help compensate for loss of balance. He presently resides in Knox County, Tennessee with his wife Melissa.[13]
References[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Born to Code, Part II by Nick Bradbury, TypePad. 2006-04-13.
- ↑ HomeSite development ended, Adobe Systems. 2009-05-26.
- ↑ And now for something completely different… by Nick Bradbury]. 2020-06-09.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Born to Code, Part I by Nick Bradbury, TypePad. 2006-04-12.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Dexter Cartoon for July 30, 2004 by Nick Bradbury, TypePad. 2004-06-30.
- ↑ History of HomeSite, Allaire. Archived 2000-12-17.
- ↑ Macromedia Completes Merger With Allaire, Macromedia. 2001-03-20. Archived 2001-03-30.
- ↑ Adobe Completes Acquisition of Macromedia, Adobe Systems. 2005-12-05. Archived 2005-12-07.
- ↑ Macromedia JRun Studio - Features, Macromedia. Archived 2001-11-15.
- ↑ TopStyle Pro and TopStyle Lite by Nick Bradbury, TypePad. 2003-11-20.
- ↑ ANN: TopStyle Acquired by Stefan van As by Nick Bradbury. 2008-12-09.
- ↑ Sabbatical by Nick Bradbury. 2020-06-01.
- ↑ Yoga by Nick Bradbury. 2020-07-14.
External links[]
- Nick Bradbury homepage
- Dexter on the Web at Bradsoft (archived 2011-07-16)
- Nick Bradbury at LinkedIn
- Nick Bradbury at Twitter
- Nick Bradbury at TypePad
- Nick Bradbury at the Adobe Wiki
- Nick Bradbury at Wikipedia
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