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Cheat Sheet Round-Up: Ajax, CSS, LaTeX, Ruby…
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
Ajax
- What’s Ajax? Cheat Sheet – PDF
- Prototype Dissected – Cheat Sheet PNG
- scriptaculous Combination Effects – Cheat Sheet – PDF
Apache
ASCII Character Codes
- 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 Entities
- HTML CODES CHEAT SHEET
- XHTML
- HTML Cheat Sheet
- XHTML Cheat Sheet v. 1.03 – PDF
Java
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
- 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
- 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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- 40 Comments
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- 2October 30th, 2006 8:14 pm
Wow! Great collection.
- 3October 30th, 2006 9:26 pm
Cool. Thanks!
- 4October 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!
- 5October 31st, 2006 2:56 am
Thanks for the links
- 6October 31st, 2006 7:42 am
It’s cool!!!
Thanks
- 7October 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.
- 8November 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 - 9November 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 - 11November 17th, 2006 1:04 am
Adobe Coldfusion 7 quick reference
http://download.macromedia.com/pub/documentation/en/coldfusion/mx7/cfmx7_cfml_qref.pdf
- 12November 21st, 2006 8:56 am
Excellent list!
- 13November 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. - 14November 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.
- 15November 29th, 2006 2:35 pm
You guys are the most useful feed in my reader. THXs
- 16December 2nd, 2006 9:01 pm
thank you. very nice collection. by the way the digg effect is very evil :-)
- 17December 15th, 2006 5:18 am
Anyone has cheat sheet for java design patterns and java collections?
- 18January 14th, 2007 6:42 am
Excelent!!
especially CSS cheat sheet xD
Thanks.
- 19January 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 - 20February 24th, 2007 12:26 am
How about some .NET love? http://john-sheehan.com/blog/index.php/net-cheat-sheets/
- 21March 9th, 2007 7:58 pm
Looking for information and found it at this great site…
- 22March 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!!
- 23April 4th, 2007 10:36 pm
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Guys, I have also posted some more relevant info further on this, not sure if you find it useful: http://www.bidmaxhost.com/forum/ - 24April 10th, 2007 1:07 am
Thank you very much…
- 25April 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.
- 26April 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.
- 27April 16th, 2007 4:04 pm
Excellent site, added to favorites!!a
- 28April 26th, 2007 8:25 pm
Thanks. Its really great colection
- 29June 11th, 2007 7:37 pm
Bookmarked
- 30August 23rd, 2007 6:29 pm
very good , especially the ones about ajax and css
- 31August 25th, 2007 2:50 am
Great resource! Goes straight into my bookmarks!
- 32August 29th, 2007 5:55 pm
ThanQ very much
- 33September 1st, 2007 7:53 pm
You guys are the most useful feed in my reader. Thanks
- 34September 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 - 35September 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
- 36September 14th, 2007 7:06 pm
Just found a really neat Javascript quick reference
- 37September 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 - 38September 26th, 2007 4:32 pm
I feel that information given here will be very help full to me.
- 39October 3rd, 2007 1:38 am
Anyone has cheat sheet for java design patterns and java collections?
- 40December 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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