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Phew! This newsletter seems to be getting bigger - there's just so much going on. This week: jQuery, Sinatra, Facebook, WordPress, Joomla, Drupal, Analytics, a free Learnable course, lorempixel, online video and plenty of web business advice. Let's get stuck in. Ricky Onsman / Managing Editor What’s New in jQuery 1.9 Unlike previous releases, jQuery 1.9 has introduced fundamental changes that could cause upgrade woes. Craig reveals possible snags, including significant feature removals, and the solutions. More » Introducing the jQuery Plugins Registry The popularity of jQuery continues to grow: 90% of sites that use a library use it. Finding the right plugin has never been easy, though. Craig finds the newly announced Plugins Registry to be a great move. More » SitePoint on Facebook There are some great coversations happening on our Facebook page. You've been there, right? One thread started with, "Mac users, what's the most useful app that you have installed?" Some great responses. Go and add your choice - maybe we'll write them all up. 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 Do Apple, GitHub and the BBC use Sinatra? Our latest ebook is out. Jump Start Sinatra explores this light and fast Ruby domain-specific language, making it easy to see why it has become so popular with sites big and small. Darren Jones explains. More » WordPress v Joomla: The Infographic Remember our series of articles last year pitting WordPress against Joomla as a content management system? Mark Atkinson developed a brilliant infographic giving visual shape to the all pros and cons. More » Bulletproof Your Drupal Website The third biggie in the CMS world has its own advantages and disadvantages. Parvesh Aggarwal looks at how some significant security vulnerabilities in Drupal can be successfully addressed. More » SingleHop Hosting SingleHop has an industry leading service level agreement called the 'Customer Bill of Rights' that promises our dedicated support team is there for you 24x7x365. We never outsource and we promise no call centers. Our 100% up-time guarantee has an over three year track record, from 2010 to today. More » Sponsored Stop Costing and Start Pricing It's not getting any easier to run a web business, and a lot of that has to do with understanding the relationships between value, cost and price. It's a confusing area, but John Tabita provides some clarity. More » Why Track Your Hours in Real Time? Understanding where your time goes and how that affects your value, price and cost balance is pretty important for any business. For a web freelancer, it can be critical. Kelly Drill examines the whys and hows. More » Cloud Contracts: 12 Ways to Protect Yourself If we're talking business, we'd better talk contracts, specifically with providers of cloud-based services. There's no better person than veteran IT journo Valerie Helmbreck to help you get the details right. More » Migrating Apps is Simple. With Windows Azure you can deploy apps without rewriting, allowing you to spend more time on your design and less time worrying about the infrastructure. Get your exclusive trial now. More » Sponsored Get a FREE Learnable Course For those of you who are just starting out in the web world, we're giving away access to our top Learnable course, Build Your First Website with HTML & CSS with Kevin Yank. It's practical, focused and whip smart. And if you don't know Kevin ... well, you should. More » Improve Web Design Mock-Ups with lorempixel You probably know how to use lorem ipsum text to fill out your design mockups. But what about the images? Not those gray blocks, actual images to impress a client. Ooh, look what Craig's turned up. Shiny. More » Achieving Online Video Success in 6 Steps Late last year, Josh Hardwick wrote about 11 online video mistakes. Not wanting to leave you hanging, he's come back with six steps to getting online video right. And before that, start thinking backwards. More » Apps to Boost Your Google Analytics Data Understanding site traffic is essential for many web professionals, and Google Analytics is the primary tool of choice. Daniel Nathan profiles seven apps that can make using the behemoth just that bit easier. More » An appetite for Ruby? Go to the source - RubySource, of course. Follow SitePoint The SitePoint Network RubySource BuildMobile SitePoint PHPMaster JSPro DesignFestival Learnable Unsubscribe | Manage Newsletter Subscriptions | Share with a friend