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
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


Vinnie
October 30th, 2006 8:02 pmwonderful collection!
memyself
October 30th, 2006 8:14 pmWow! Great collection.
Elf
October 30th, 2006 9:26 pmCool. Thanks!
Pete Freitag
October 30th, 2006 10:58 pmThanks 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!
John C
October 31st, 2006 2:56 amThanks for the links
Pedro Rogério
October 31st, 2006 7:42 amIt’s cool!!!
Thanks
RoamingLawnGnome
October 31st, 2006 4:40 pmI 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.
memyself
November 5th, 2006 7:03 pmjQuery 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
Pom_
November 7th, 2006 2:51 pmThank 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 pmfixed. thanks Pom_ !
Ron
November 17th, 2006 1:04 amAdobe Coldfusion 7 quick reference
http://download.macromedia.com/pub/documentation/en/coldfusion/mx7/cfmx7_cfml_qref.pdf
Adi
November 21st, 2006 8:56 amExcellent list!
Pablo
November 22nd, 2006 3:56 amHi 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 amHello,
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 pmYou guys are the most useful feed in my reader. THXs
macosbrain
December 2nd, 2006 9:01 pmthank you. very nice collection. by the way the digg effect is very evil :-)
KamranZaidi
December 15th, 2006 5:18 amAnyone has cheat sheet for java design patterns and java collections?
Moonsault
January 14th, 2007 6:42 amExcelent!!
especially CSS cheat sheet xD
Thanks.
Neal McBurnett
January 24th, 2007 11:52 amThe 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
John S.
February 24th, 2007 12:26 amHow about some .NET love? http://john-sheehan.com/blog/index.php/net-cheat-sheets/
Elza
March 9th, 2007 7:58 pmLooking for information and found it at this great site…
s.
March 27th, 2007 3:58 amThanks 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 pmOn personal opinion, I find this very helpful.
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crazy monkey
April 10th, 2007 1:07 amThank you very much…
jojo
April 12th, 2007 11:48 amHere is another MySQL Cheat Sheet to have a look at. Looks like it has a bit more covered than the others.
jojo
April 13th, 2007 2:54 amOops. 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 pmExcellent site, added to favorites!!a
boombick
April 26th, 2007 8:25 pmThanks. Its really great colection
Randolph
June 11th, 2007 7:37 pmBookmarked
tmmz
August 23rd, 2007 6:29 pmvery good , especially the ones about ajax and css
Igre
August 25th, 2007 2:50 amGreat resource! Goes straight into my bookmarks!
harish
August 29th, 2007 5:55 pmThanQ very much
Kopux
September 1st, 2007 7:53 pmYou guys are the most useful feed in my reader. Thanks
Toplu Email
September 7th, 2007 3:00 amjQuery 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
Manzara Resimleri
September 10th, 2007 8:21 pmThanks 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 pmJust found a really neat Javascript quick reference
http://www.explainth.at/downloads/jsquick.pdf
ödev
September 17th, 2007 8:54 amThank 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 pmI feel that information given here will be very help full to me.
wonderworld
October 3rd, 2007 1:38 amAnyone has cheat sheet for java design patterns and java collections?
Ruby
December 14th, 2007 9:12 pmThanks 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