http://darthur.mit.edu a few things that are going on... Wed, 20 Feb 2008 05:07:15 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I've posted a profile of the various projects that I've worked on over the past few years on the web, mainly for graduate school applications, but also for the enjoyment of anyone who wants to know more about what I've been up to. There are four main categories: Design, ... http://darthur.mit.edu/?p=69 A collection of projects completed during undergraduate studies at MIT. Please click a category below to learn more. Design Robotics Programming Writing Resume http://darthur.mit.edu/?p=68 Resume PDF - DOC Cover Letter PDF - DOC My name is Arthur Petron. Friends call me Darthur. I am currently a Senior at the Massachusetts institute of Technology. I study Mechanical Engineering with an emphasis on product design and manufactuing techniques. I work at the MIT Media ... http://darthur.mit.edu/?p=67 Factors Affecting Creativity in the Product Design Industry Too often is creativity use simply as a buzzword without considering its deep philisophical underpinnings. The individuals behind todays coolest products are required to have a very specific skill set: the creativity of an artist with the analytical skills of an ... http://darthur.mit.edu/?p=66 At the time when I grew up in the quiet town of York, Pennsylvania, the manufacturing industry still employed a large share of the area’s workers, but the once premiere industry now suffers steady decline. By the time I headed off to college I had been in contact with enough ... http://darthur.mit.edu/?p=64 A friend once told me that MIT, unlike other colleges such as Harvard, sets its students up to be accepting of failure. Whether intentional or not, classes are always difficult and the workload is very high. It is extremely difficult to achieve straight A’s throughout your entire MIT ... http://darthur.mit.edu/?p=63 A not so long time ago it was below freezing for more than a week here in Boston. At the time, this meant little more to me than dressing warmly and hoping that someday soon it would snow. I would spend my mornings checking the weather report and ... http://darthur.mit.edu/?p=62 In 2.00B "Solving Real Problems," we are working towards helping out the Massachusetts based Food Project to build a new composter for one of their sites located in Dorchester, MA. For more information on the project and other project for 2.00B, visit the course website. Background and description: The Food Project ... http://darthur.mit.edu/?p=60 I’m busy, too busy to think about anything in a linear fashion sometimes, and I fall into a sort of whimsical scatterbrained frame of mind that I feel defines my life here at MIT. Unfortunately with that frame of mind come a lot of questions when I do finally get to sit ... http://darthur.mit.edu/?p=29 To get things onto your site: AFS Tutorial Secure FX Useful Sites to look at for example code: Simple CSS example CSS 3-Column Layout because tables are not the way to go JavaScript Back-end site AJAX Back-end a variation of JavaScript Tutorials: HTML everything Javascript everything Dojo AJAX intro http://darthur.mit.edu/?p=28