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By Smashing Editorial, October 30th, 2006 in Developer's Toolbox | 169 Comments | Forum

Whether you’ve forgotten the name of a function or the property of a cascading style sheet - handy cheat sheets deliver the information you are looking for - immediately. Most cheat sheets are available as .pdf or .png-files, so you can print them and use them every day for whatever projects you’re currently working on. We present an extensive overview of useful cheat sheets we’ve found in the Web. Links checked: May/16 2008.

Update (09/04/2007): Apollo Cheat Sheet (Apollo mx.controls & mx.core Cheatsheet, Apollo flash.display & flash.events Cheatsheet and Apollo flash.filesystem, flash.html & flash.system Cheatsheet) were added.

Update (01/11/2006): Django Reference Sheet, The Django Book and Wordpress Cheat Sheet are added.

Update (30/10/2006): you can find even more cheat sheets here and here. [vf]

Actionscript

Quick reference/Cheatsheet for ActionScript 2.0

Ajax

Apache

ASCII Character Codes

ASP

ASP / VBScript Cheat Sheet - PNG

C# and VB.NET

CSS

CVS

C++

Django

The Django Book

Firefox

Google

HTML/XHTML

Java

JavaScript

Microformats

Misc

CHMOD Chart
Complete listing of common camera symbols.
The Unicode-Database
RGB Hex Colour Chart - PNG
Pretty Good PGP Reference Card
Search Engine Cheat Sheet
Quick Reference Cards
Ada, C, C++, CSS, CVS, Delphi, DOC++, Html, Java, JSP, Perl, PHP, Linux, Unix, SQL, UML, XML

MySQL

Oracle

Perl

Photoshop/Gimp

PHP

Python

Regular Expressions

Ruby

Unix/Linux

Weblog

Windows

XML

Published in Developer's Toolbox, October 30th, 2006
Tags: ajax, ascii, cheatsheets, CSS, google, html, javascript, linux, mysql, perl, photoshop, php, ruby, weblogs, windows, xml

1.

Vinnie (October 30th, 2006, 8:02 pm)

wonderful collection!
2.

memyself (October 30th, 2006, 8:14 pm)

Wow! Great collection.
3.

Elf (October 30th, 2006, 9:26 pm)

Cool. Thanks!
4.

Pete Freitag (October 30th, 2006, 10:58 pm)

Thanks for putting up some of my cheat sheets, I have also written a cheat sheet roundup just over a year ago: Link [www.petefreitag.com] Enjoy!
5.

John C (October 31st, 2006, 2:56 am)

Thanks for the links
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Pedro Rogério (October 31st, 2006, 7:42 am)

It’s cool!!!

Thanks
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RoamingLawnGnome (October 31st, 2006, 4:40 pm)

I wish to thank you kindly for allowing some of the old school freedom back onto the World Wide Web. I will use the knowlege to pass on free kowldge as much as my human mind and this machine will allow.
8.

memyself (November 5th, 2006, 7:03 pm)

jQuery cheatsheet:
Link [www.define-web.com]
Link [www.define-web.com]
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Pom_ (November 7th, 2006, 2:51 pm)

Thank you for these links !

There is a little problem in links : the following ones have the same link :
# The Unicode-Database
# RGB Hex Colour Chart - PNG
10.

Magazine (November 7th, 2006, 6:30 pm)

fixed. thanks Pom_ !
11.

Ron (November 17th, 2006, 1:04 am)

Adobe Coldfusion 7 quick reference

Link [download.macromedia.com]
12.

Adi (November 21st, 2006, 8:56 am)

Excellent list!
13.

Pablo (November 22nd, 2006, 3:56 am)

Hi All Experts,
I want to use AJAX (Asynchronous JAVA script with XML ). How can i Optimize the site SEO.
as Java script and flash is not recommended by search engines. Any suggestion or help is welcomed. With Regards.
14.

Angelique (November 29th, 2006, 6:57 am)

Hello,

Thanks for putting up this site it’s full of great information. I was wondering if you coulf find something on A+ Certification. It would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.
15.

Joey (November 29th, 2006, 2:35 pm)

You guys are the most useful feed in my reader. THXs
16.

macosbrain (December 2nd, 2006, 9:01 pm)

thank you. very nice collection. by the way the digg effect is very evil :-)
17.

KamranZaidi (December 15th, 2006, 5:18 am)

Anyone has cheat sheet for java design patterns and java collections?
18.

Moonsault (January 14th, 2007, 6:42 am)

Excelent!!

especially CSS cheat sheet xD

Thanks.
19.

Neal McBurnett (January 24th, 2007, 11:52 am)

The Django cheatsheet listed from .woodpecker.org.cn was last modified in November 2005 and is for an early version of Django. E.g. the second and third instructions are outdated.

Instead, see the one on the Django wiki at
Link [code.djangoproject.com]
20.

John S. (February 24th, 2007, 12:26 am)

How about some .NET love? Link [john-sheehan.com]
21.

Elza (March 9th, 2007, 7:58 pm)

Looking for information and found it at this great site…
22.

s. (March 27th, 2007, 3:58 am)

Thanks so very much for taking your time to create this very useful and informative site. I have learned a lot from your site. Thanks!!
23.

alex (April 4th, 2007, 10:36 pm)

On personal opinion, I find this very helpful.
Guys, I have also posted some more relevant info further on this, not sure if you find it useful: Link [www.bidmaxhost.com]
24.

crazy monkey (April 10th, 2007, 1:07 am)

Thank you very much…
25.

jojo (April 12th, 2007, 11:48 am)

Here is another Link [insites.ingenesis.net] to have a look at. Looks like it has a bit more covered than the others.
26.

jojo (April 13th, 2007, 2:54 am)

Oops. The link in my previous comment is for another MySQL cheat sheet. It has a bit more (and less) in it than the other references in your list.
27.

Bob (April 16th, 2007, 4:04 pm)

Excellent site, added to favorites!!a
28.

boombick (April 26th, 2007, 8:25 pm)

Thanks. Its really great colection
29.

Randolph (June 11th, 2007, 7:37 pm)

Bookmarked
30.

tmmz (August 23rd, 2007, 6:29 pm)

very good , especially the ones about ajax and css
31.

Igre (August 25th, 2007, 2:50 am)

Great resource! Goes straight into my bookmarks!
32.

harish (August 29th, 2007, 5:55 pm)

ThanQ very much
33.

Kopux.NET (September 1st, 2007, 7:53 pm)

You guys are the most useful feed in my reader. Thanks
34.

Toplu Email (September 7th, 2007, 3:00 am)

jQuery cheatsheet:
Link [www.define-web.com]
Link [www.define-web.com]
35.

Manzara Resimleri (September 10th, 2007, 8:21 pm)

Thanks for this resource, I will especially be using the css cheat sheet alot. This page gets bookmarked as I develop my skills I will be needing to use more of these cheat sheets in the future
36.

Andrej Upits (September 14th, 2007, 7:06 pm)

Just found a really neat Javascript quick reference

Link [www.explainth.at]
37.

ödev (September 17th, 2007, 8:54 am)

Thank you for these links !

There is a little problem in links : the following ones have the same link :
# The Unicode-Database
# RGB Hex Colour Chart - PNG
38.

chirag shah (September 26th, 2007, 4:32 pm)

I feel that information given here will be very help full to me.
39.

wonderworld (October 3rd, 2007, 1:38 am)

Anyone has cheat sheet for java design patterns and java collections?
40.

Ruby (December 14th, 2007, 9:12 pm)

Thanks for this resource, I will especially be using the css cheat sheet alot. This page gets bookmarked as I develop my skills I will be needing to use more of these cheat sheets in the future