Disclaimer: This post is purely an opinion piece and is not intended as a news article. I am a Microsoft MVP, which means that my viewpoint may be slightly biased towards Microsoft but I try very hard to keep things limited to facts and not wild conjecture or complete... Read more

What is Bootstrap Flat? To put it simply, Bootstrap Flat is a custom theme on top of Bootstrap that provides a flat look to the user interface elements. That means there are no gradients, shadows, or rounded corners. Why? Twitter Bootstrap is probably one of the most widely... Read more

What is Cadru? Cadru is (hopefully) a helpful utility framework containing new APIs and extensions to the core .NET Framework to help complete your developer toolbox. Cadru is designed to be portable first, which means that the majority of the library is available as a Portable Class Library... Read more

As web developers and consumers, we’re all familiar with the HTML <input> tag. This is the tag that renders on the screen as an input text box. However, as developers you may not be familiar with all of the “new” HTML 5 values for the type... Read more

For those of you who may not know, appRequests is the umbrella brand for WP Requests and WinStore Requests. These sites are designed to allow you to add or vote for your favorite non-Microsoft app to come to either the Windows Phone or Windows Store platforms. It’s... Read more