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Hi, folks! My favorite item this week is our own great new service for assessing broken code. Eyeball is going to change things. We also have some CSS, WordPress plugins, Google theme words, pricing your services, programming languages and getting rid of those annoying image caching files in Windows. Plenty for you to do. Ricky Onsman / Managing Editor CSS Selectors Level 4: The Path to CSS4 OK, it's controversial and probably unnecessary to invoke the term CSS4, but the next evolutionary stage of CSS is likely to include much of what Syed Fazle Rahman points out is the subject of discussion. More » Eyeballs on Your Front End We're working on a whole new approach to identifying and fixing broken CSS, HTML and JavaScript. One aspect of this approach is Eyeball, a Twitter-based way of requesting site assessments. Try it. More » How to Switch Off Thumbs.db Count me among those who get irritated by these image cache files. Craig Buckler explains how to get rid of them. Don't be fooled into thinking you disable them. No. You enable turning them off. More » Try New Relic Today and Get this Awesome Shirt New Relic is the only SaaS based application performance monitoring software that gives you full stack analytics.  Monitor your browser, your app, and your servers all with just a few lines of code.  Best of all when you try our product you get this awesome Nerd Life shirt to show off in front of all your friends. Try it today! More » Sponsored Why You Should Never Drop Your Price Craig puts his business hat on (that's the one that doesn't have a propeller) and comes up with five reasons for never lowering your professional charges. There are some interesting comments on this. More » The Art of Pricing How much a web pro should charge and how to calculate that is also the subject of Lead Business Writer John Tabita's latest offering, but he brings into play the Law of Reciprocation. You read that right. More » Migrating Apps is Simple With Windows Azure you can deploy apps without rewriting, allowing you to spend more time on the design and less time worrying about the infrastructure. To get your exclusive 90-Day trial, sign up now. More » Sponsored Optimization in the Cloud: aiCache Jacco Blankenspoor uses SitePoint.com as a cache test dummy for cloud-based aiCache's claimed ability to slash site loading times while reducing server load. The results speak for themselves. More » A Quick Introduction to Apache Cassandra Still with a Cloudspring in our step, NetFlix, eBay, Twitter and Reddit all use a "scalable, high-availability datastore with no single point of failure". Nikolas Goebel explains how Cassandra does the job. More » Learn HTML5, CSS3 & JavaScript Ready to prove your Win 8 Web and/or Windows store apps dev skills? Take a free 2-day online Jump Start course and get a voucher for a free exam: 70-480. Great training plus a free exam! Start earning your MCSD. More » Sponsored What is the Best Programming Language to Learn? PHP, Java, Ruby, JavaScript, Objective C ... Craig looks at which languages are trending upwards in popularity this year, and finds it requires a second glance to put the statistics in proper perspective. More » Using Free WordPress Plugins I know I can write my own WordPress plugins, but when there are so many good ones available free, why wouldn't I use them? Rakhitha Nimesh provides some guidelines that developers can follow. More » What Theme Words Mean to Google As Dan Kaufenberg explains, theme words are key words in  text webpage content that, when looked at in context, help Google to establish a theme and confirm the text's authority. Makes sense. More » Ancient saying: to be a PHP master, you must visit PHPMaster. Follow SitePoint The SitePoint Network RubySource BuildMobile SitePoint PHPMaster JSPro DesignFestival Learnable Unsubscribe | Manage Newsletter Subscriptions | Share with a friend