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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]

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Google

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  1. 1
    Vinnie
    October 30th, 2006 8:02 pm

    wonderful collection!

  2. 2
    memyself
    October 30th, 2006 8:14 pm

    Wow! Great collection.

  3. 3
    Elf
    October 30th, 2006 9:26 pm

    Cool. Thanks!

  4. 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: http://www.petefreitag.com/item/455.cfm Enjoy!

  5. 5
    John C
    October 31st, 2006 2:56 am

    Thanks for the links

  6. 6
    Pedro Rogério
    October 31st, 2006 7:42 am

    It’s cool!!!

    Thanks

  7. 7
    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. 8
    memyself
    November 5th, 2006 7:03 pm

    jQuery cheatsheet:
    http://www.define-web.com/jquery_cheat_sheet/jquery_cheat_sheet_080306_v1.pdf
    http://www.define-web.com/jquery_cheat_sheet/jquery_cheat_sheet_080306_v1_pg2.pdf

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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. 10
    Magazine
    November 7th, 2006 6:30 pm

    fixed. thanks Pom_ !

  11. 11
    Ron
    November 17th, 2006 1:04 am

    Adobe Coldfusion 7 quick reference

    http://download.macromedia.com/pub/documentation/en/coldfusion/mx7/cfmx7_cfml_qref.pdf

  12. 12
    Adi
    November 21st, 2006 8:56 am

    Excellent list!

  13. 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. 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. 15
    Joey
    November 29th, 2006 2:35 pm

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

  16. 16
    macosbrain
    December 2nd, 2006 9:01 pm

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

  17. 17
    KamranZaidi
    December 15th, 2006 5:18 am

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

  18. 18
    Moonsault
    January 14th, 2007 6:42 am

    Excelent!!

    especially CSS cheat sheet xD

    Thanks.

  19. 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
    http://code.djangoproject.com/wiki/DjangoCheatSheet

  20. 20
    John S.
    February 24th, 2007 12:26 am

    How about some .NET love? http://john-sheehan.com/blog/index.php/net-cheat-sheets/

  21. 21
    Elza
    March 9th, 2007 7:58 pm

    Looking for information and found it at this great site…

  22. 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. 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: http://www.bidmaxhost.com/forum/

  24. 24
    crazy monkey
    April 10th, 2007 1:07 am

    Thank you very much…

  25. 25
    jojo
    April 12th, 2007 11:48 am

    Here is another MySQL Cheat Sheet to have a look at. Looks like it has a bit more covered than the others.

  26. 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. 27
    Bob
    April 16th, 2007 4:04 pm

    Excellent site, added to favorites!!a

  28. 28
    boombick
    April 26th, 2007 8:25 pm

    Thanks. Its really great colection

  29. 29
    Randolph
    June 11th, 2007 7:37 pm

    Bookmarked

  30. 30
    tmmz
    August 23rd, 2007 6:29 pm

    very good , especially the ones about ajax and css

  31. 31
    Igre
    August 25th, 2007 2:50 am

    Great resource! Goes straight into my bookmarks!

  32. 32
    harish
    August 29th, 2007 5:55 pm

    ThanQ very much

  33. 33
    Kopux
    September 1st, 2007 7:53 pm

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

  34. 34
    Toplu Email
    September 7th, 2007 3:00 am

    jQuery cheatsheet:
    http://www.define-web.com/jquery_cheat_sheet/jquery_cheat_sheet_080306_v1.pdf
    http://www.define-web.com/jquery_cheat_sheet/jquery_cheat_sheet_080306_v1_pg2.pdf

  35. 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. 36
    Andrej Upits
    September 14th, 2007 7:06 pm

    Just found a really neat Javascript quick reference

    http://www.explainth.at/downloads/jsquick.pdf

  37. 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. 38
    chirag shah
    September 26th, 2007 4:32 pm

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

  39. 39
    wonderworld
    October 3rd, 2007 1:38 am

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

  40. 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

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