All you need is an idea (not a prototype or app) but the deadline is May 31.

For more details head to the UNIC website.

If you want to demo at a future meeting (or the upcoming WPBarCamp) then you might want to know what to consider when giving a demo.

When people give app demos we ask them to answer the following questions:

• What does the app do?
• Why did you build it?
• Were there any problems you had during development? And how did you overcome those issues?
• What did you learn from the development of the app?
• What’s the best thing about the app?
• What do you have planned for future versions?

That’s it. Very simple.
And because  it’s a subject you know well (your app) you’ll find it really easy.
So no excuse for not giving it a go then ;)

If you want to bring your own laptop that’s great. We recommend ensuring that everything runs fine at 1024×768 to ensure it works with any projector and if you’re showing code, be sure to set the font size in Visual Studio to at least 14pt before you start.

If you want to borrow a laptop for your demo then that’s fine too. Just bring a copy of your XAP, PPT or whatever on a USB drive.

We strongly recommend having a backup of your files available (privately if necessary) on-line too. Yes, we’ve had people turn up in the past, only to discover that their laptop had died or the USB drive wasn’t working.

Simply write a blog post, article, tweet or something else which encourages people to attend our next meeting and to go to http://wpug20.eventbrite.com/ or http://www.meetup.com/wpuguk/events/56027782/ to register.
Then add a comment below to show what you’ve posted.

Everyone who posts a link will be entered into a draw to win the license.

See you on the 21^st.

Small Print:
1 entry per site/twitter account.
Entries will be identified by comments to this post.
Winner will be selected at the event via a random draw.
You must be in attendance to win.
Draw masters decision is final.

Free 10-day trial & 20% off unlimited access Safari Books Online Library

Simply follow the “How to redeem” link on http://www.meetup.com/wpuguk/sponsors/

Additionally, without the need to register anywhere else, you can get

50% off all ebooks and videos at oreilly.com

Simply enter at the discount code DSUG at the checkout of oreilly.com.

This year it has the special theme of “Apps for the High Street”.

If you’re interested, there are more details on http://hackathoncentral.com/ or you can register at lanyrd.com/cgcrc.

Continuing with our theme from last month, we’ll be continuing to look beyond Windows Phone and the lessons we can learn from other platforms and the lessons, knowledge and experiences we can take with us if we take Windows Phone apps to other platforms too.
A couple of WPUG regulars will be sharing their experiences:
Stuart will be talking about his experiences with creating an MVVM solution that also works with MonoTouch & MonoDroid
Paul will be talking about his experiences of porting applications between iPhone and Windows Phone and vice versa.

As ever, we’re also providing the opportunity for people to demonstrate the apps they’ve made and share some of their experiences and lessons learnt. We have a couple lined up, but if you have an app you want to show or an experience you want to share then please get in touch.

If you’re planning on coming, please head on over to Eventbrite or MeetUp to register.

As announced on his blog, Colin Eberhardt (@ColinEberhardt) will be travelling down from Edinburgh to talk about PhoneGap. (See a full synopsis of what he’s planning to talk about on his blog.

Also speaking will be Tristan (@codeglee) and Neil (@DukeOfMuppets) from Compsoft. (You may recognize them from the Redshift alphalabs.cc project.)
They spend their days developing for a variety of mobile platforms and will be talking about their experiences and sharing some tips on what Windows Phone developers can learn from other platforms.

Unfortunately our other speaker, who was going to talk about what it’s like to transition from being an iOS developer to a Windows Phone one has had to postpone his talk until a future date.
This means that we have an opening if anyone else would like to share their experiences of developing for more than just Windows Phone.

And we’ll also be having a quick recap of any relevant announcements from MWC so far. Plus the usual drinking and socialising.

Just in case you need the reminder. We’ll be at the Shooting Star again and it’s on a TUESDAY.

More details and registration at http://notatmwc12.eventbrite.com/

Also, for those who’ve had problems with EventBrite, you can now also register on meetup at http://www.meetup.com/wpuguk/events/50560792/

We hope to see you there.

This means that there’s been loads of news, articles, blogs, etc. which I haven’t been tweeting about. As I’ve just caught up on my reading lists this leaves the question about how to share the relevant articles? I considered drip feeding* them into the twitter feed.
This would mean that they potentially get to the regular audience and appear in the archive which can be a useful resource when searching (hint).

The other alternative is just to publish them here. This is what I’m doing.

* Not drip feeding them and just tweeting them all in a hurry would be likely to upset followers whose time-lines I end up filling.

If you think I should also drip feed them through the twitter account too let me know.

So, in no particular order:

The Big Dummies Guide for Windows Phone Developer Resources
New MVVM Light templates with bug fixes
Trying out the Inneractive WP7 Ad SDK
WP7 – Changing Visuals Based on Phone Theme with ThemeToStateBehavior
WPDev Sin: Pride
31 Weeks of Windows Phone Metro Design | #5 Choosing between Panoramas, Pivots and/or Pages.
Accelerometer Sensor for Windows Phone 7
Winning on the Marketplace: The differentiation game
Connecting to SharePoint on Office 365 with Windows Phone 7
Winning on the Marketplace: Finding the pricing sweet spot
Understanding the Required Artwork for your Windows Phone App
Creating a WP7 app: Caching urls problem
WP7 ShellTileSchedule, Secondary Tiles Update Problem
8 Must-Have Tools for Windows Phone 7 Development
Please ship your next Windows Phone app with GZip: speed requests 50-80%
31 Weeks of Windows Phone Metro Design | #4 Hub & Spoke Navigation Model
WP7 Application crash (in buy now!)
Tips and tricks when using PhotoCamera in WP 7.5 Mango
Windows Phone 7.5 Fundamentals: Ebook
WP7 PhoneGap Backbutton Support Re-visited
The Mango Videos
Signing up for a Windows Phone Marketplace account as an individual is easy peasy.
Windows Phone 7 – Browsing your Photos via Bing Maps
Breakdown of Windows Phone App Download Statistics
Windows Phone and PhoneGap – Article #9 – Handling Orientation – Part 1
Touch & Drag 2D Objects on Windows Phone 7
31 Weeks of Windows Phone Metro Design | #3 Ideation and Concept
A simple Windows Phone control for reading QR codes
Windows Phone 7.5: Using sockets
Windows Phone 7 Bloom Effect
Basic Ad Controls for Windows Phone Apps with David Kelley
HttpWebRequest (WebClient) And Tombstoning in Windows Phone 7
Windows Phone 2011 Retrospective
PhoneGap on WP7 Tip #5: Live Tiles and Deep Linking
Mango Sample: 3 Solutions to Formatting Problems
How To: Initialize a game on Windows Phone with XPG
31 Weeks of Windows Phone Metro Design | #2 The Design Process of a Windows Phone App
Resize images to be used on Live Tile – Windows Phone 7
New article by SilverlightShow and Andrea Boschin: ‘WP7.5 – Using advanced tiles API’
Using the Windows Phone Storage NuGets for Windows Azure
Let me out – Facebook Logout in a Windows Phone App
Framework Exceptions in Windows Phone
FastClick for WP7 – Improving Browser Responsiveness for PhoneGap Apps
InputScope changes in Windows Phone Mango
Recording of Webinar ‘Leveraging Windows Azure for the Windows Phone Developer’ by Samidip Basu
Using Cameras in Your Windows Phone Application
Windows Phone 7 Silverlight: Behaviors for TextBox
Slides for Webinar “Azure for the Windows Phone Developer”
How to open and work with large photos on Windows Phone
Adding Cookies to a Windows Phone 7 HttpWebRequest
A Windows Phone 7 behavior to show an image background for a search string
31 Weeks of Windows Phone Metro Design | #1 Metro Design Principles and Metro Design Language
How to Generate Tile Image from StackPanel
Beta of Amazon Web Services SDK for Windows Phone Released
HTML5 on Windows Phone: A Simple Boilerplate
Understanding the Required Artwork for your Windows Phone App
PhoneThemeManager: allow your app to have the Light, Dark, or Inverted theme with 1 line of code
Winning on the Marketplace: Where in the world are you publishing?
Windows Phone Local Database tip: Initializing the database
Bloom on Windows Phone
A quick look at MetroRadio: quick spacing, margin, and icon tips for Windows Phone devs
Inside Windows Phone #30 | Arturo Toledo is back
“30 to Launch” – launched
Silverlight Toolkit ToggleSwitch Databinding Bug
Review of Windows Phone 7.5 Data Cookbook
New Markets for Windows Phone Developers
Create beautiful and dynamic Live Tiles with Telerik LiveTileHelper
Windows Phone App Promotion and Monetization Talk Video
Windows Phone 7 + IronRuby + Online Library Hosting + Auto Updating = LiveLibs
Making sure your WP7 app updates successfully
A Festive and Fun Windows Phone 7 Maze Game
Waiting for Your Windows Phone Beta App
Tutorial: how to create HTML5 applications on Windows Phone thanks to PhoneGap
Windows Phone Local Database tip: Exploring INSERT performance–5 power tweaks
Windows Azure Storage Client Library for Windows Phone: Part 1
7 Deadly Sins for … Windows Phone Developers !
PhoneCore Framework: a framework for building of WP7 applications
Getting latest Tweets in Windows Phone apps using Twitter REST API and JSON.NET
How to get the Tapped Item in a MultiselectList control
Getting Started with Coding4Fun Button Controls
Advanced ApplicationBar for Windows Phone
How to cancel (overwrite) a successful Marketplace update submission?
Native, Hybrid or Web Apps?
New Videos Added to our Windows Phone 7 Library (Telerik)
Developer tool for nicer marketplace screenshots
Windows Phone: App Config Settings – Thinking Outside the Box
Introducing Windows Phone App Marketing and Monetization Newsletter
The Windows Phone Developer Conference
10 Reasons why mobile analytics are mission critical to a sustainable mobile strategy

Happy reading :)