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Cheat Sheet Round-Up: Ajax, CSS, LaTeX, Ruby…

October 30th, 2006 in Developer's Toolbox | 144 Comments

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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.

Something is missing? Don’t hesistate to comment!

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 (31/10/2006): The site is was temporarily down due to the Digg-effect. Sorry for inconvenience. [editors]

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

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ASCII Character Codes

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Google

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Java

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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: Link [www.petefreitag.com] Enjoy!

  5. 5.

    eConsultant (October 31st, 2006, 12:03 am)

    119 cheat sheets listed here too …

    Link [www.econsultant.com]

    Sanjeev

  6. 6.

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

    Thanks for the links

  7. 7.

    Pedro Rogério (October 31st, 2006, 7:42 am)

    It’s cool!!!

    Thanks

  8. 8.

    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.

  9. 9.

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

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

  10. 10.

    John Drach (November 6th, 2006, 7:57 am)

    Thank you!

  11. 11.

    Lorenzo Alberton (November 6th, 2006, 11:04 pm)

    I wrote a cheat sheet for Firebird SQL and one for PostgreSQL:

    Link [www.alberton.info] Link [www.alberton.info]

    HTH

  12. 12.

    steve (November 7th, 2006, 11:52 am)

    Link [www.getcheatsheet.com]

  13. 13.

    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

  14. 14.

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

    fixed. thanks Pom_ !

  15. 15.

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

    Adobe Coldfusion 7 quick reference

    Link [download.macromedia.com]

  16. 16.

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

    Excellent list!

  17. 17.

    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.

  18. 18.

    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.

  19. 19.

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

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

  20. 20.

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

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

  21. 21.

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

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

  22. 22.

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

    Excelent!!

    especially CSS cheat sheet xD

    Thanks.

  23. 23.

    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]

  24. 24.

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

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

  25. 25.

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

    Looking for information and found it at this great site…

  26. 26.

    bilmeceler (March 16th, 2007, 9:43 am)

    god sites my games

  27. 27.

    Güzel sözler (March 16th, 2007, 10:08 am)

    thank you

  28. 28.

    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!!

  29. 29.

    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]

  30. 30.

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

    Thank you very much…

  31. 31.

    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.

  32. 32.

    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.

  33. 33.

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

    Excellent site, added to favorites!!a

  34. 34.

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

    Thanks. Its really great colection

  35. 35.

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

    Bookmarked

  36. 36.

    James Dalton (August 12th, 2007, 12:52 am)

    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.

  37. 37.

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

    very good , especially the ones about ajax and css

  38. 38.

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

    Great resource! Goes straight into my bookmarks!

  39. 39.

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

    ThanQ very much

  40. 40.

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

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

  41. 41.

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

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

  42. 42.

    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

  43. 43.

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

    Just found a really neat Javascript quick reference

    Link [www.explainth.at]

  44. 44.

    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

  45. 45.

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

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

  46. 46.

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

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

  47. 47.

    Mihai (October 24th, 2007, 10:19 pm)

    SEO Quick Reference Guide
    Link [mihaigheza.files.wordpress.com]

  48. 48.

    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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