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Welcome to Jordi Mas' Homepage

I'm Jordi Mas from Barcelona. Here you will find a few notes of the projects that I'm working on. I hold a bachelor in computer science from the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya and Executive MBA from EADA business school.

I have worked for companies as Servicom, Quarterdeck Ireland, Translation Craft, iNet Client Technlogies, Novell as a full-time software developer. As a contractor, I worked for MENTA, Vodafone, Amena, Terra Networks, eresMas, InOut TV, and others. All my work as been always related to software development, mainly in C++. During my work on Translation Craft, I wrote HTMLQA the industry standard quality assurance for localised HTML. All the other developments that I have done mainly for internal use.

Just for fun

Mono

 Mono is an open source implementation of the Microsoft .NET Development Framework led by Miguel de Icaza. The C# language, the runtime, the metadata and the other various bits of the .NET development platform are currently an ECMA standard. As a Novell employee and as volunteer I have largely contributed to System.Windows.Forms, System.Drawing, System.Workflow, Mono.Cairo and libgdiplus implementation efforts.

Abiword software development

I'm an Abiword core developer since version 1.0x.  Abiword is a a free word processing program similar to Microsoft® Word developed by a community of voluntaries. It's available for several versions of Unix, Mac, QNX and Windows. I'm the current Windows maintainer but I also work on other non-Windows issues, specially the ones related to enhance our internationalisation (i18n) support.

Some of the stuff that I have been working includes: lots bug fixing (over 150), adding OLE drag and drop support on win32, 'Paste' of BMP graphics on win32, improving the internationalization and localisation support, lots of UI stuff: implementing dialog boxes, property sheets, Font Preview, adding support for minor languages, rewriting the menus and keyboard handling code, etc. I also have writing the win32 native image pluggin importer, that it's now a standard component in Abiword. To get a detailed report of my contributions to Abiword follow this link since every week I'm hacking new stuff.

Software Engineering

At Softcatalà I'm in charge of the localisation into Catalan of  the following projects, including the software engineering and build management of the following localisation projects:

  • Mozilla /Netscape  - I did the Catalan builds, testing, a part of the translations, of Netscape classic and Mozilla from 1997 until 2004.
  • Abiword  - I have been producing the localised win32 builds of Abiword from 2001 until the present.
  • Gnome - I have doing engineering tasks (fixing files from translators amount others), proof-reading translations, and translating some files.
  • GNU project - I have help to proof-read and complete serveral translations, including XChat, gcc, etc.
  • Freeware programs - I did the engineering of Winamp, Mirc, GetRight, Eudora, WebCopier, Winrar from 1997 until 2001, when we stopped doing freeware programs.

    • Language resources

  • I wrote the autocorrection word list and abbreviation lists for the Catalan language for Open Office 1.1.
  • At Softcatalà, I started a Catalan computer dictionary created under the GNU Free Documentation License. I worked on it for a year, currently I'm is maintained by another person but I'm still contributing a lot.
  • I put together a list of Catalan barbarisms with their correction in XML format and I also added support to Abiword to use it.
  • I put together a translation memory database for Catalan language that includes the localised versions of Mozilla, OpenOffice.org, Gnome, Abiword, Fedora, Mandrake amount others.
  • I did a study on the presence of the Catalan language in the web in relation to other languages. At the time, it was the 23rd language on the web.
  • I contribute regularly with the Catalan center of terminology, TERMCAT, helping them to define new computer related terminology.

    • Conferences

    This some stuff that I wrote for conferences:
  • GNU Linux/Windows migration tools and data and application sharing. Catalan.
  • Introduction to Abiword 2.0 architecture (Toward World Domination release). Catalan
  • Speech criticizing the strong support to proprietary software done in by the old Catalan government.. Catalan
  • The importance of intellectual property for the Catalan language in the Information Society. Catalan.
  • Introduction to Softcatalà and the situation of the Catalan language. Catalan.


    • Contact info

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