Tim Bray

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Tim Bray

Timothy "Tim" William Bray (born June 21, 1955 in Canada ) is an entrepreneur and software developer who is jointly responsible for the XML and Atom standards. From March 2010 to March 2014 he worked for Google as a developer advocate. From December 2014 to May 2020 he worked at Amazon .

Entrepreneurship

From 1989 to 1990 he was part of the management of Waterloo Maple and saved the company from bankruptcy. Together with two colleagues, he founded the Open Text Corporation in 1991 , which works in the Enterprise Content Management (ECM) sector . The consulting firm Textuality advises in the field of web publishing. In 1999 one of the customers was Netscape . Antarctica Systems, founded in 1999, specializes in the visualization of business analyzes.

The HTTP status code 451 Unavailable For Legal Reasons goes back to an initiative by Bray. The aim is to make censorship visible on the World Wide Web, because the most suitable status code 403 Forbidden is unspecific. It usually does not reveal why access was blocked.

supporting documents

  1. Tim Bray becomes Google Developer Advocate , as seen April 1, 2010
  2. Leaving Google Ongoing, March 4, 2015.
  3. Amazonian . Ongoing, March 4, 2015.
  4. ^ Bye, Amazon . Ongoing, April 29, 2020.

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