Hi! I’m Olav Bjorkoy - a web designer and programmer from Trondheim, Norway. I’m currently studying computer science at NTNU, specializing in artificial intelligence.

I once created the Blueprint CSS Framework, which is still pretty popular. In this blog, you’ll find posts on CSS, HTML (especially #5), Ruby, AI, Python and everything in between.

The blog is powered by Jekyll and runs on a virtual private server provided by Slicehost. Stats are tracked with the delicious Mint. You won’t find any comment forms, but contact me on twitter, or send me an email: olav at bjorkoy dot com.

❡Olav Bjørkøy

• Studied Computer Science at NTNU
• Consultant at BEKK
• Occasionally on Twitter
• More often on GitHub
• Reachable by email

❡Papers

• Adaptive Aggregation of Recommender Systems short version, code
• Competitive and Cooperative Behavior in Bio-Inspired AI
• User Modeling on the Web: An Exploratory Review of Recommendation Systems

❡Projects

• Blueprint CSS Framework: Horizontal and vertical grids, and sensible default styling.
• RubySOM: Using a SOM (self-organizing map / kohonen map) to solve the TSP.
• PyANN: Generic Artificial Neural Network Framework in Python.
• RubyGA: Genetic Algorithm Framework written in Ruby.
• PyPoker: A poker bot capable of playing against human opponents.
• Dotfiles: My dotfiles for Ubuntu, mostly for Xmonad, Vim and ZSH.

❡Articles

• Page Width and Device Independence 03 Sep 2010
• Contextual Fluid Grids 25 May 2010
• Semantic CSS Grids With SASS 22 May 2010
• Blogging With Jekyll, Git and a VPS 15 May 2010
• Conway's Game of Life in Ruby 14 May 2010
• Automatic compilation of Sass and HSS files 21 Oct 2008
• Passing the torch 02 Sep 2008
• Blueprint 0.7 has arrived 20 Feb 2008
• CSS font shorthand syntax 11 Jan 2008
• How to stop comment spam 06 Jan 2008
• Blueprint's directory structure 03 Jan 2008
• Rejoice, the blog is back! 02 Jan 2008
• Tools of the trade 16 Nov 2007
• Blueprint 0.6 Released 21 Sep 2007
• Inspiration 07 Sep 2007
• CSS 101 - Opposing Floats 07 Sep 2007
• Blueprint 0.6 stress test 06 Sep 2007
• CSS 101 - There's always another way 30 Aug 2007
• Blueprint 0.5 - The Experiment 28 Aug 2007
• CSS 101 - Group by layout 26 Aug 2007
• Blueprint 0.4 released 11 Aug 2007
• Blueprint - 54548, 6118, 1558, 1217 06 Aug 2007
• Launch - Blueprint, a CSS framework 03 Aug 2007
• Battle comment spam with an extra form field 01 Aug 2007
• Notes on the WWDC '07 Keynote 12 Jun 2007
• Are web designers out of touch with their audience? 13 May 2007
• Adobe CS3 Web Edition looks amazing 18 Apr 2007
• Displaying your Todo.txt on the desktop 12 Apr 2007
• Quake-console style IRC, with Terminal, Visor, and Irssi 09 Apr 2007
• Perspectives gained from switching CMS and redesigning the blog 09 Apr 2007
• Twitterrific 08 Apr 2007
• The easiest way to PNG support in IE6 08 Apr 2007
• A new hope 08 Apr 2007