{"id":657,"date":"2009-01-16T21:20:54","date_gmt":"2009-01-17T02:20:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wiredprairie.us\/blog\/index.php\/archives\/657"},"modified":"2009-01-16T21:20:54","modified_gmt":"2009-01-17T02:20:54","slug":"my-mix09-10k-entry-is-now-showing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wiredprairie.us\/blog\/index.php\/archives\/657","title":{"rendered":"My Mix09 10K entry is now showing &hellip;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I entered the Mix09 10K programming contest this year.&#160; The basic premise \u2013 code&#160; any Silverlight or WPF click-once application and use less than 10K code\/assets total. I struggled to get what I wanted in under 10K (I kept trimming\/removing)! I had to change my idea several times to get it to fit into 10K. All my variables had one or two character names, I used var, lambda expressions, every messy-code-squashing trick I could think of to get it to fit!<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019d appreciate your vote <a href=\"http:\/\/2009.visitmix.com\/MIXtify\/TenKDisplay.aspx?SubmissionID=0075\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/2009.visitmix.com\/MIXtify\/TenKDisplay.aspx?SubmissionID=0075\"><img loading=\"lazy\" title=\"image\" style=\"border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px\" height=\"316\" alt=\"image\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wiredprairie.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/image6.png\" width=\"446\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Thanks!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I entered the Mix09 10K programming contest this year.&#160; The basic premise \u2013 code&#160; any Silverlight or WPF click-once application and use less than 10K code\/assets total. I struggled to get what I wanted in under 10K (I kept trimming\/removing)! I had to change my idea several times to get it to fit into 10K. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[4,5],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pd5QIe-aB","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":727,"url":"https:\/\/www.wiredprairie.us\/blog\/index.php\/archives\/727","url_meta":{"origin":657,"position":0},"title":"Arcade Billiards, the Source Code","date":"March 12, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"Although my Mix09 entry didn\u2019t place\/win, as promised I\u2019m posting the source code, as-is. 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