{"id":794,"date":"2009-09-08T00:13:15","date_gmt":"2009-09-08T00:13:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.joelonsoftware.com\/?p=794"},"modified":"2018-04-23T21:55:45","modified_gmt":"2018-04-23T21:55:45","slug":"countdown-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joelonsoftware.com\/2009\/09\/08\/countdown-challenge\/","title":{"rendered":"Countdown challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This month we\u2019re starting to get organized for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.joelonsoftware.com\/items\/2009\/05\/12.html\">StackOverflow DevDays<\/a>, a series of one-day, mini conferences in ten different cities. Because of the packed schedule, keeping on time is very important, so I want to have a full-screen countdown application that we can run during intermissions warning people when we\u2019re going to resume. We\u2019ll put this up on the main screen and hopefully that will encourage people to sit down and be quiet on time. I thought this would be a great opportunity to showcase the StackOverflow community\u2019s programming talent, so I posted a little contest over on <a href=\"http:\/\/meta.stackoverflow.com\/questions\/20420\/countdown-app-for-devdays\">meta<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This month we\u2019re starting to get organized for StackOverflow DevDays, a series of one-day, mini conferences in ten different cities. Because of the packed schedule, keeping on&hellip; <span class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.joelonsoftware.com\/2009\/09\/08\/countdown-challenge\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;Countdown challenge&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p83KNI-cO","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joelonsoftware.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joelonsoftware.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joelonsoftware.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joelonsoftware.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joelonsoftware.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=794"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.joelonsoftware.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/794\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3403,"href":"https:\/\/www.joelonsoftware.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/794\/revisions\/3403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joelonsoftware.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joelonsoftware.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joelonsoftware.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}