by Phil Morle | Aug 4, 2011 | Code
I want to share with you some of the pain of UI development today. Before CSS3 setting an elements background opacity without affecting the content of that element’s opacity was a real pain. If you set the opacity of the element, then all the children of that...
by Phil Morle | Aug 4, 2011 | Pollenizer News
Let’s take a look at this week’s Linkopedia. Animator vs. Animation, Flash Animation by Alan Becker- http://fc01.deviantart.com/fs13/f/2007/077/2/e/Animator_vs__Animation_by_alanbecker.swf Create with Context document titled “How people really use the...
by Phil Morle | Aug 2, 2011 | Portfolio Company News
Here at Pollenizer we get to work with some amazing startup founders which I’d like to start introducing you to through regular blog interviews. To kick off we caught up with Julio Labraga, a general great guy and savvy entrepreneur I’ve had the pleasure...
by Phil Morle | Aug 2, 2011 | Pollenizer News
“I am from Friendorse. We help suburban communities find solutions to local problems and help suburban businesses find new customers. We are in week four of twelve and we have spent thirty six thousand dollars. This is what we have done this week…” We...
by Phil Morle | Aug 2, 2011 | Startup Science
I was recently travelling in Europe and as I was waiting for my Nice to Dubai flight to board I noticed the following billboard ad: Thoughts in my mind went as follow: I wish I was the target audience 😉 What a great focus! Wait a minute… lol, @mick would love...
by Phil Morle | Aug 2, 2011 | Startup Science
Before I moved to Australia 20 years ago, I was seduced by Bruce Chatwin’s famous book, The Songlines. The same book also instigated my terrible addiction for Moleskin notebooks. There is a section that I always return to. ‘Sometimes’, said Arkady,...
by Phil Morle | Jul 29, 2011 | Startup Science
At Pollenizer we are continually encouraged to further educate ourselves, and in turn to ‘blog’ – or to further educate you, the community. We call it Personal Development, and PD ensures Pollenizer is always evolving as a company, maintaining our...
by Phil Morle | Jul 29, 2011 | Startup Science
(Yes, this is the way I think) I had a flashback to this video that my brother and I danced to when I was about 4. (It’s a great video, watch the whole thing – some great cameos including Paul Simon and Danny Devito) You can’t do two wonderful things...
by Phil Morle | Jul 28, 2011 | Pollenizer News
Let’s take a look at this week’s Linkopedia. Techcrunch Post titled “Quora Testing User Credits For “Ask To Answer” Questions”- http://techcrunch.com/2011/07/27/quora-testing-user-credits-for-ask-to-answer-questions Dwolla provides a free web based...
by Phil Morle | Jul 28, 2011 | Code
Well, I got slack last week (personally I blame it on the blog being down for a couple of days) and I didn’t post this plugin as I said I would. Here it is, I’ve got it up on Github and posted a demo page right here. I love this plugin, it’s very...
by Phil Morle | Jul 25, 2011 | Startup Science
Recently we did a test of a promotion for Wooboard and we learned a lot. We had a great offer, clear call to action, a good value price – let the cash roll in! Ummm… we forgot to sell the product…. Yes, in our excitement or more accurately our...
by Phil Morle | Jul 22, 2011 | Pollenizer News
Let’s take a look at this week’s Linkopedia. Article on Agile Development titled “Change on a Dime: Agile Design”- http://uxmag.com/strategy/change-on-a-dime-agile-design Video Tutorial titled “Mastering Git Basics” by Tom Preston-Werner...