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About Marco |
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 About MarcoMarco was born in Portuguese Mozambique, Southeast Africa, on 27.Jan.1974. After the independence of the Portuguese colonies, his family returned to the mainland. In 2012, he was the first civilian to complete the military masters and, in 2017, the first known person to compute the Information Metric in the “field”.
In November 2016, he was at his PhD Supervisor's house in the North of Portugal, Guarda, to have some Information Theory teachings.
In July 2013, he was in a PhD seminar at IADE University with Professor Carvalho Rodrigues and his other students.
Master of Science in Information Warfare, by Academia Militar Portuguesa in 2012, with the average: 16/20 (Very good). Dissertation grade “Relativist Theory of Cyberterrorism”: 18/20 (Excellent). He was the first civilian to complete the course.
On 7.Nov.2012 he received a reward from bank Santander Totta for his course final grade: €1000. He was the only civilian to receive a prize at the Opening Ceremony for the school year 2012/2013.
Marco has a pre-Bologna licentiate degree in Computer Science Management, by Universidade Moderna de Lisboa in 1999, with the average: 14/20 (Good). A life dedicated to computers: In 1986, aged 12, he entered the world of computers with the acquisition of a computer TC 2048. He soon began coding in BASIC, later in Z80 Assembly, reading British speciality magazines and corresponding with many people. In 1991, he moved to the Amiga platform, where he coded shareware and freeware. He received a proposal from a Norwegian company to market one of his shareware programs that came on the cover disk of a popular British magazine. With the bankruptcy of Commodore in the 1990s, the Amiga computer was no longer manufactured. His activity as a coder almost ceased. In university (1995), he entered the world of PCs, adapting himself promptly to the computer and software due to his computer background. In July 2001, he returned to coding as a hobby on the PC using the DarkBASIC language. He founded the group “Team SpecNG” with the purpose of remaking ZX Spectrum games for the PC. In January 2012, he began to code in the language BlitzMax for Windows, Linux, and Mac. This language was difficult to use, the documentation poor, and the technical support in the forum bad. In March 2013, he moved to the language PureBasic, whose documentation and operation were much better than in BlitzMax. In April 2020, he began to code in Unity. Beta tester/QA/UX of various software, where it stands out: — AmigaOS 3.5 & 3.9 for the company HAAGE & PARTNER; — Commodore OS Vision 1.0 for the company Commodore USA, LLC; — Thunderbird for the organisation Mozilla Foundation; — LibreOffice for the organisation The Document Foundation. His testing/QA/UX approach to software is very simple: he interacts with the software like he was a 6-year-old child. If its use is straightforward then the software is well-designed, if not, it requires improvements. It is as simple as this. Translator of texts/manuals from English to Portuguese: Pretty Good Privacy 2.6.3i, Gpg4win, OpenSlides, LanguageTool, DVD2one, DALnet, Alex Chiu's website, CardBook (add-on Thunderbird), etc. Good knowledge of translating using Pootle, Transifex, Crowdin and WebTranslateIt. Portuguese rules, spelling and morphological dictionaries' maintainer of the grammar checker LanguageTool for Microsoft Office, OpenOffice, LibreOffice, Firefox, Thunderbird, Chrome, etc. Developer of the open-source linguistic tool Proofing Tool GUI (PTG) to edit dictionaries, thesauri, hyphenation, autocorrect, and other basic language tasks. “Forked” the British dictionary on 25.Aug.2013 adding 130 000+ words to this date. It was made available for Linux, OpenOffice, LibreOffice, Firefox, Thunderbird, etc. It works with all software accepting Hunspell dictionaries' files. Improved the Portuguese autocorrect for LibreOffice using PTG. Contacted numerous companies/organisations/individuals during the years, proposing improvements to their websites/products/software. In June 2017, he was offered a sticker by The Document Foundation for his commitment to LibreOffice:  In December 2019, he was offered stickers and a mug by The Document Foundation for his commitment to LibreOffice:   Last update: 5.Feb.2024 |
