I have just found that my site stefantsov.com can not be opened from Russia. Since I'm not doing anything bad, this was a surprise for me. After digging a bit, thanks to +Fedor, I was able to find the reason behind the blocking.

For stefantsov.com I'm using Cloudflare CDN to deliver resources faster all around the world, reduce server bandwidth, get some free optimizations, etc. Cloudflare effectively hides my real IP, delivering all content itself. Currently site's IP resolves to 141.101.116.129: CLOUDFLARE-EU. In russian blacklist there is some hentai site, that is using Cloudflare as well, resolves to same IP address. It got blocked few days ago, which effectively blocks my site as well.

gl hf gg wp no re, да здравствует великий российский файрвол, guys.
[Random In Soviet Russia joke]

This is a great piece of art, a nightwalk through the savannah of the night Marseille. This is done using Google Street View engine, but greatly enriched by music, sounds and annotations.

You will usually encounter images like this:

One of many sights of the night Marseille

You may love it, you may hate it, but it will not leave you indifferent. Like promised in the very beginning, it will show you the soul of the city. Take a night walk with Google in Marseille, France.

Blizzard's Heroes of the Storm is in Alpha right now, but it is already playable.
Getting as much XP as possible is most important task in HotS, this article answers questions I had regarding Abathur XP leech mechanics, every good player must know this.

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Really approximate numbers:
~50 requests / sec takes a 2GHz core
~100 requests / sec takes 10 Mbps
~200 MB RAM per each Umbraco instance
~500 requests / second on single 2GHz core with OutputCache.

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jStepper is a nice and really useful jQuery plugin that, once applied to a text input, only allows digits or numbers to be entered in it.

Setting it up as easy as

$(".txtTesting").jStepper({minValue:0, maxValue:23, minLength:2});

Look at jStepper in action at Hearthstone Calculator tool I've made recently. Here is the code that I'm using for hscalc:

$text.jStepper({
    minValue: minValue,
    maxValue: maxValue,
    allowDecimals: false,
    decimalSeparator: ".",
    onStep: function (objTextField, bDirection, bLimitReached) {
        $slider.slider("value", objTextField.val());
        updateAfterValuesChanged();
    }
});

jStepper homepage is handy, you can see all the options and apply them right away.

Not much else to be said. This tool just works, as intended. You would also like to know that author behind it, +Martin Kruse, is nice and helpful guy. A little bug I had for my corner case he fixed the same day. #h5yr, like Umbraco developers would say!

In short words: vs2013 Browser Link rocks! It works perfectly even in custom CMS environment, and it delivers. If you haven't already, give it a try!

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I am having problems with uBlogsy and Umbraco. Have been debugging and trying to figure them out few days straight already. Here is a list of structured thoughts on the issue.

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uCommerce is a great e-commerce package, but there is a serious flaw in it's pages links strategy. Learn how to improve your uCommerce SEO with just a few lines of code.

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Games are not always fun. Often developers put repetitive tasks in it. That's when programming skills come in handy. In this article I'll show you how I gained a Mortal Kombat Komplete Edition achievement using AutoHotkey script.

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After googling, reading and thinking a lot, I am proud to share a nice way of managing your dbContext in a ASP.NET MVC application. A simple static class, which implements Context Per Request approach. Utilizing HttpContext of ASP.NET.

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