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October 30th, 2006 in Developer's Toolbox | 153 Comments
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
- ActionScript 3.0 Cheatsheet - flash.display Package
- ActionScript3.0 - Top Level Classes
- ActionScript3.0 - Packages
- Apollo Cheat Sheet (Apollo mx.controls & mx.core Cheatsheet, Apollo flash.display & flash.events Cheatsheet and Apollo flash.filesystem, flash.html & flash.system Cheatsheet)
Ajax
- What’s Ajax? Cheat Sheet - PDF
- Prototype Dissected - Cheat Sheet PNG
- scriptaculous Combination Effects - Cheat Sheet - PDF
Apache
ASCII Character Codes
- ASCII Codes Cheat Sheet
- Character Entity References in HTML 4 and XHTML 1.0
- HTML Character Entities Cheat Sheet - PNG
- HTML Character Entities Cheat Sheet - PDF
- HTML special character reference
- HTML - Special Entity Codes
- Special ASCII HTML Character Codes
- XHTML Character Entity Reference
ASP
C# and VB.NET
CSS
- CSS 2 - Quick Reference Guide - PDF
- CSS Cheat Sheet - PDF
- CSS Cheat Sheet - PNG
- CSS Property Index
- Cascading Style Cheatsheet
- CSS Shorthand Guide
CVS
C++
- C++ Containers Cheat Sheet
- C++ Quick Reference Sheet (Cheat Sheet) - PDF
- How to Program in C++ - Language Summary
Django
Firefox
- Firefox Keyboard Shortcuts - PDF
- Firefox Shortcuts Sheet
- Mozilla Firefox Cheat Sheet
- Mozilla Thunderbird Cheat Sheet
- Keyboard Shortcuts
- Gmail Shortcuts (printable cheatsheet)
- Google Advanced Operators (Cheat Sheet)
- Google Cheat Sheet (Version 1.06) - PDF
- Google Cheat Sheet - auch als PDF
- Google Cheat Sheets - auch als PDF
- Google Help : Cheat Sheet
HTML/XHTML
- A Simple Guide To HTML - Cheat Sheet
- HTML & XHTML Tag Quick Reference
- HTML Cheat Sheet
- HTML Cheatsheet
- HTML Entities
- HTML CODES CHEAT SHEET
- XHTML
- HTML Cheat Sheet
- XHTML Cheat Sheet v. 1.03 - PDF
Java
- Java Quick Reference - PDF
- JSP Quick Reference Card
- (JSPª) SYNTAX version 1.1
- (JSP™) SYNTAX version 2.0
JavaScript
- JavaScript Cheat Sheet - PNG
- JavaScript Cheat Sheet - PDF
- JavaScript Reference
- JavaScript and Browser Objects Quick Reference
- Regular Expressions for JavaSript - free online quick reference
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
- Perl Regular Expression -Quick Reference - PDF
- Perl Cheat Sheet
- Perl Cheat Sheet
- Perl 5 Cheat Sheet
- Perl Quick Reference Card - PDF
- Perl Regexp Quick Reference Card - PDF
Photoshop/Gimp
- Gimp Quick Reference Card v.1.0
- Photoshop 7.0 Quick Reference Card for Windows - PDF
- Photoshop CS2 Keyboard Shortcuts (Windows) - PDF
- Photoshop CS2 Keyboard Shortcuts (Macintosh) - PDF
PHP
- symfony PHP5 framework - Admin Generator cheat sheet - PDF
- PHP Cheat Sheet - PDF
- PHP Cheat Sheet - PNG
- PHP Cheat Sheet with special php syntax
- Regular Expressions Cheat Sheet - PNG
Python
- Python 101 cheat sheet
- Python Cheat Sheet
- Python Cheat Sheet - PDF
- Python Quick Reference
- Python 2.4 Quick Reference
Regular Expressions
Ruby
- ActiveRecord Relationships - Ruby on Rails cheat sheet guide - PDF
- RubyOnRails-Cheatsheet - PDF
- Ruby on Rails Cheat Sheet - PNG
- Ruby on Rails cheat sheet guide - PDF
- Ruby quick reference
- Threadeds Ruby Cheat Sheet
- What Goes Where? - Ruby on Rails cheat sheet - PDF
Unix/Linux
- Linux Shortcuts and Commands
- quick_reference [GNU screen]
- Unix Cheat Sheet
- The One Page Linux Manual - Version 3 - PDF
- TCP Ports list (3498 ports in list)
- Treebeard’s Unix Cheat Sheet
- Essential Vim keyboard shortcuts Cheat Sheet
- VIM Quick Reference Card
- Vim Commands Cheat Sheet
Weblog
- Blogger Cheatsheet - PDF
- Quick Reference Chart - ExpressionEngine Documentation - PDF
- TypePad Cheatsheet - PDF
- Movable Type Cheatsheet - PDF
- MovableType
- WordPress Cheatsheet - PDF
- WP - WordPress Cheat Sheet für Theme Tags und Plugin-API - PDF
Windows
- An A-Z Index of the Windows NT/XP command line
- Graphical vi-vim Cheat Sheet and Tutorial
- Power Point 2000 - Keyboard Shortcuts
- POWERPOINT 2003 - Quick Reference Card
- Quick Reference Card for Windows®
- TCP Ports list (3498 ports in list)
- Windows - Alt Key Numeric Codes
XML
- Fusebox 4.1 XML Cheat Sheet
- MathML Reference - PDF
- VoiceXML Reference - PDF
- XML TopicMaps 1.0 - Quick Reference Card - PDF
- XML Quick References - PDF
- XML Schema 2001: children - parents - PDF
- XML Schema 2001: elements - attributes - PDF
- XML Schema 2000/10 - PDF
- XML Schema - Structures Quick Reference - PDF
- XML Schema - Data Types Quick Reference - PDF
- XSL FO Reference - PDF
- XSLT Quick References - PDF
- XSLT Quick Reference Card - PDF
- XSLT Reference
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Vinnie (October 30th, 2006, 8:02 pm)
wonderful collection!
memyself (October 30th, 2006, 8:14 pm)
Wow! Great collection.
Elf (October 30th, 2006, 9:26 pm)
Cool. Thanks!
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!
John C (October 31st, 2006, 2:56 am)
Thanks for the links
Pedro Rogério (October 31st, 2006, 7:42 am)
It’s cool!!!
Thanks
RoamingLawnGnome (October 31st, 2006, 4:40 pm)
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memyself (November 5th, 2006, 7:03 pm)
jQuery cheatsheet:
Link [www.define-web.com]
Link [www.define-web.com]
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
Magazine (November 7th, 2006, 6:30 pm)
fixed. thanks Pom_ !
Ron (November 17th, 2006, 1:04 am)
Adobe Coldfusion 7 quick reference
Link [download.macromedia.com]
Adi (November 21st, 2006, 8:56 am)
Excellent list!
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.
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.
Joey (November 29th, 2006, 2:35 pm)
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macosbrain (December 2nd, 2006, 9:01 pm)
thank you. very nice collection. by the way the digg effect is very evil :-)
KamranZaidi (December 15th, 2006, 5:18 am)
Anyone has cheat sheet for java design patterns and java collections?
Moonsault (January 14th, 2007, 6:42 am)
Excelent!!
especially CSS cheat sheet xD
Thanks.
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]
John S. (February 24th, 2007, 12:26 am)
How about some .NET love? Link [john-sheehan.com]
Elza (March 9th, 2007, 7:58 pm)
Looking for information and found it at this great site…
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!!
alex (April 4th, 2007, 10:36 pm)
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crazy monkey (April 10th, 2007, 1:07 am)
Thank you very much…
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.
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.
Bob (April 16th, 2007, 4:04 pm)
Excellent site, added to favorites!!a
boombick (April 26th, 2007, 8:25 pm)
Thanks. Its really great colection
Randolph (June 11th, 2007, 7:37 pm)
Bookmarked
tmmz (August 23rd, 2007, 6:29 pm)
very good , especially the ones about ajax and css
Igre (August 25th, 2007, 2:50 am)
Great resource! Goes straight into my bookmarks!
harish (August 29th, 2007, 5:55 pm)
ThanQ very much
Kopux.NET (September 1st, 2007, 7:53 pm)
You guys are the most useful feed in my reader. Thanks
Toplu Email (September 7th, 2007, 3:00 am)
jQuery cheatsheet:
Link [www.define-web.com]
Link [www.define-web.com]
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
Andrej Upits (September 14th, 2007, 7:06 pm)
Just found a really neat Javascript quick reference
Link [www.explainth.at]
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
chirag shah (September 26th, 2007, 4:32 pm)
I feel that information given here will be very help full to me.
wonderworld (October 3rd, 2007, 1:38 am)
Anyone has cheat sheet for java design patterns and java collections?
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