September 01, 2005
Cheat Sheet Roundup - Over 30 Cheatsheets for developers





Lets face it, unless you have a photographic memory, no developer can remember all the different functions, options, tags, etc. that exist. Documentation can be cumbersome at times, thats why I like cheat sheets. They are quick references that feature the most commonly forgotten things on a specific topic. You can print them out and hang them on your wall, or just keep them handy in your bookmarks for quick reference.
I have rounded up over 30 cheatsheets that developers might find useful.
Web Development Cheat Sheets
Databases / SQL Cheat Sheets
Language Cheat Sheets
Version Control Cheat Sheets
Other
Commercially Printed CheatSheets
Am I missing any good ones? Feel free to post any others in the comments.
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http://juerd.nl/site.plp/perlcheat this is a good one for Perl.
You just created this list so I would stop bugging you for help with my projects... I know what you're up to mister!
Thanks Dom, I added a hyper link to that cheat sheet. Thanks for the compliments nesz. Jason - right on the money ;)
anyone have anything on qualcomm's BREW language?
Where is the one for Flash And Actionscript ?
This Regular Expressions prints up nicely on one page.
http://www.regxlib.com/CheatSheet.htm
There's a perl cheat sheet here..
http://search.cpan.org/~nwclark/perl-5.8.7/pod/perlcheat.pod
The UMBC Semantic Web Reference Card is a handy "cheat sheet" for semantic web developers and programmers. It can be printed double sided on one sheet of paper and tri-folded. The card lists common RDF/RDFS/OWL classes and properties, popular namespaces and terms, XML datatypes, reserved terms, grammars and examples for encodings, etc.
http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/resource/html/id/94/
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Congrads Pete, you're currently at the top of del.icio.us/popular. Funny.. I thought about writing this same post a couple of weeks ago when I was looking for an emacs cheat sheet. :)
Hi Pete,
this is a great site for developers. Thanks a lot for this summery of all these links!!!
A great reference card for subversion can be found here:
http://www.cs.put.poznan.pl/csobaniec/Papers/svn-refcard.pdf
Greets
Andy
Hi Pete,
this is a great site for developers. Thanks a lot for this summery of all these links!!!
A great reference card for subversion can be found here:
http://www.cs.put.poznan.pl/csobaniec/Papers/svn-refcard.pdf
Greets
Andy
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Movable Type Cheat Sheet - Movable Type Spickzettel: http://www.einfach-persoenlich.de/2005-05-29/movabletype-movable-type-cheat-sheet-spickzettel.html
Great references, Pete, keep up your work!
Vitaly Friedman, www.alvit.de/vf www.alvit.de/web-dev www.alvit.de/handbook
huh? why is postgreSQL missing? any ideas?
http://html-tags.info/
this one is also helpful for HTML
Anyone seen one for Apache directives? That would be helpful!
Hi Everyone, thanks for the comments. I've been out of town this weekend, and I'll update the entry with your suggestions tomorrow.
-pete
.. and:
Debian Reference Card: http://people.debian.org/~debacle/refcard/refcard-en-a4.pdf
UML: http://www.holub.com/goodies/uml/index.html
LATEX: http://www.cs.ualberta.ca/~c603/LaTeX_docs/Symbol_Source/latex_symbols.pdf
;-)
Not really a cheat sheet, but a good quick reference for Python: http://rgruet.free.fr/PQR24/PQR2.4.html
Here's another good regex cheat sheet, courtesy Stephen Jenkins (aka Erudil):
http://www.erudil.com/pdf/preqr.pdf
This is very neato - to have all this in one location. However, I noticed the Oracle cheat sheet is a commercial download (costs $3.95). Wondering if it makes more sense to move it under the "Commercially printed" heading. Thanks for this compilation again.
Great list of cheat sheets! I'm sure I have a handful to add, but without checking my bookmarks, I wanted to toss this one into the fray. W3Schools is a great quick and dirty (not terribly deep but broad enough for general use) site with many different topics:
http://www.w3schools.com/
And again.. not totally deep, but found some great cross-platform SQL code examples here:
http://www.sqlzoo.net/
Keep posting the great links!
-TG
Its not updated to 12.6, but I wrote this a year or so ago for Sybase IQ :
http://homepage.mac.com/leighkennedy/dba/doc/ASIQ%20Performance%20Cheat%20Sheet.doc
Don't forget this general cheat sheet for programmers: http://ostermiller.org/calc/cheat.html I saw it in somebody's slashdot sig a few months ago. It has the ascii chart, the hex values, and a scientific programmers calculator.
XSL/XPath: http://www.mulberrytech.com/quickref/XSLTquickref.pdf
Here is another group of "Quick Reference Chart"s I found: http://www.digilife.be/quickreferences/quickrefs.htm
del.icio.us for code snippets: http://www.bigbold.com/snippets/
It's the last word in programming cheat sheets.
There are plenty of free cheat-sheets at refcards.com
Thanks Pete As an aspiring web designer from Australia, i have found it handy to have such information close at hand. Most of these now reside in my Firefox Favourites. Plus saved as a HTML for offline reference. Thanks
http://www.digitalmediaminute.com/reference/entity/index.php is the best entity reference available.
The JSP quickref links digilife and it's out of date. Use this: http://java.sun.com/products/jsp/syntax/1.2/card12.pdf
thank you very much for the hard work u have already done to make this roundup available to us. i just stumbled upon this from shellcity.net. thanks again for this invaluable service
Anyone know of some good SQL Server (T-SQL) cheat sheets?
The XSS (Cross Site Scripting) cheet sheet is a really good reference: http://ha.ckers.org/xss.html
There is an updated (long) JSP CheatSheet (for 2.0, 2.1 to come?):
http://java.sun.com/products/jsp/syntax/2.0/card20.pdf
..dont you have a different cheat sheet for php? the one at daniel's site sucks big time..
Rational ClearCase Commands Reference with keyword live search: http://www.ipnom.com/ClearCase-Commands/
Two neatly formatted vi quick reference cards to print out (PDF):
http://tiger.la.asu.edu/Quick_Ref/vi_quickref.pdf
http://tiger.la.asu.edu/Quick_Ref/vim_quickref.pdf
http://www.digilife.be/quickreferences/QRC/C%20Reference%20Card%20(ANSI).pdf
Good job ! Just a little thing: In the Python cheat sheet there is a link to my Quick Ref which is outdated (pointing to QR for Python 2.2). The correct address is http://rgruet.free.fr/#QuickRef
Cheers
It's been mentioned before but the emacs person missed it so: there is an emacs cheat sheet (amongst others) on this page: http://refcards.com/refcards/index.html
The actual cheat sheet itself is here: http://refcards.com/refcards/gnu-emacs/index.html
Hi Pete, great list. Do you know it?
Google Cheet in german http://www.bueltge.de/allg-google-cheat-sheet/42/
MS WORD Shortcuts in german http://www.bueltge.de/allg-ms-word-shortcuts/96/
MS Windows Shortcuts in german http://www.bueltge.de/allg-windows-shortcuts/89/
With best regards Frank
More Cheat Sheet in http://refcards.com
And http://www.deepx.com/resources/quickref/
ActionScript 2.0 Cheatsheet!
http://www.thotskee.com/sean/ascs
Enjoy!
I have coded a program to display cheat sheets with a single hotkey press. You can get it here: http://www.ghostclip.com Thanks and appreciate all feedback! Curtis White http://www.ghostclip.com
A useful reference for GNU Screen is http://aperiodic.net/screen/quick_reference
Fusebox XML cheat sheet http://www.dopefly.com/pages/fuseboxxmlcheatsheet.cfm
I think you guys suck. I need help with a cheat sheet for accounting. call me when you get one thanks!
You think your so great dont you Dom? Well your wrong!
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Here's a printable Ruby Cheatsheet:
http://www.cenophobie.com/ruby/
Great site plot, the links and docs are very clear and useful. Like all of us coders and developers I'm sure your busy but where is the all scripting languages, .VB, ASP and any .NET.
I developed Smarty Cheat Sheet, you can add that.
visit : http://www.somewherein.net/blog/?p=326
Prototype Cheat Sheet: http://www.snook.ca/archives/000531.php
Please make a zip with all
http://www.regxlib.com/CheatSheet.htm
Link is busted.
Another good one for Python: http://rgruet.free.fr/PQR24/PQR2.4.html
Sorry about the HTML above, thought comments would handle at least that.
http://slash7.com/
Has quite a few really nice PDF format cheat sheets on Ajax, RoR, Scriptaculous, etc.
Appears link to Regular Expression cheat sheet is broken.
Thanks for this great and complete list. I would like to add a sheet for all visitors:
The Google Cheat Sheets as PDF in the normal format http://www.feedsforme.com/google/
Regular expression link from bjhanifin is broken, here is the correct link http://regexlib.com/CheatSheet.aspx
Hi Pete,
Nice initiative! Maybe you could add a link to free SVN e-book "Version Control with Subcersion" (http://svnbook.red-bean.com/)?
Regards,
Peter
this is great. thanks for sharing it with us.
This is a new one for Dojo Framework http://www.get-the-answer.info/files/DojoWidgetOverview.pdf
I want a Freeware Utility to ... 450+ common problems solved. Extremely useful free utilities that do specific jobs really well and save time and money. http://www.namized.info/articles/554/1/Open-Source-Software
The MulberryTech.com cheat sheet mentioned by Eric Goodwin has been updated XSLT and XPATH cheat sheet: http://www.mulberrytech.com/quickref/XSLT_1quickref-v2.pdf
Also, direct link to XPATH cheat sheet at deepx (commented on by Domingo Redal above): http://www.deepx.com/resources/quickref/XPath-1.0.pdf
Not exactly a cheat sheet, but still way cool http://gotapi.com/
The Regex Cheat Sheet URL is incorrect. It should be http://regexlib.com/CheatSheet.aspx
Regards,
DK
Hi, nice website.
I was looking for SQL Cheat Sheets especially the Sybase. Very useful Website! Thanks. http://www.sms-lotse.de
Hi, The Oracle cheat sheet should be in the Commercial section since it is being sold by a company. Thanks! Bill
here's a link to a HEX/RGB converter. it maps your values to the Web CLUT to give you the closest "safe" match. http://www.code-complete.com/cgi-bin/colors.pl
The Google Cheat Sheet is now updated.
Link: http://www.adelaider.com/google
more advices for developers : http://www.webdeveloper.pl/developer,1,3,1,pl.html
I wrote a cheat sheet for Firebird SQL and one for PostgreSQL:
http://www.alberton.info/firebird_cheat_sheet.html http://www.alberton.info/postgresql_cheat_sheet.html
HTH
The best cheat sheets I have found (and bought) is at: http://www.visibone.com/products/browserbook.html Regards, Tom Pridham Tampa, FL USA
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Here's another cheat sheet for the Drupal (http://drupal.org) content management system API.
>> http://drupal.org/node/50825
Russ
Actionscript Cheet Sheet for Flash Developers link is:
http://actionscriptcheatsheet.com/blog/
Very good site www.petefreitag.com. I got a helpful information here. I'll use it. I will be glad to see you on my site http://winter.puteshestviy.net Thank you. With warmest regards. Mikle
Great list Pete! I frequently use this redirection methods cheatsheet when I'm developing sites to see the different ways of redirecting users.
http://www.askapache.com/htaccess/list-of-methods-to-redirect-users-to-different-page.html
There's also a pretty good MySQL Cheat Sheet available here:
http://insites.ingenesis.net/2007/04/11/mysql-reference-cheat-sheet/
TextPad Quick Reference Card: http://johnbokma.com/textpad/quick-reference-card.html
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Here's an RSS 2.0 cheat sheet: http://home.comcast.net/~shorvath/docs/rss_cheatsheet.pdf
The link to: Regex - thanks bjhanifin is not complete, her it is: http://regexlib.com/CheatSheet.aspx
Here is a really neat cheatsheet for Javascript that I found recently
http://www.explainth.at/downloads/jsquick.pdf
My friend wrote a cheat sheet for CSS shorthand notation: http://edwardwelker.com/blog/2007/09/06/css-shorthand-cheat-sheet/
Google Cheat Sheet is updated. http://www.audiophile.pl
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SEO Quick Reference or Best Practice Guide http://mihaigheza.wordpress.com/2007/08/24/mihais-seo-cheat-sheet/
There is a growing collection of cheatsheets here
http://www.explainth.at/en/menu/qr.shtml
A useful cheat sheet for those who use Macromedia Dreamweaver:
http://www.digitaloverload.co.uk/blog/2007/12/07/dreamweaver-shortcuts/
Great list Pete. We also put together cheatsheets which cover the major search engine queries - if you'd like to add it?
http://www.e3internet.com/tools/search-engine-query-cheatsheets/
Very useful list. What about adding my new python cheat sheet?
http://greyfox.imente.org/index.php?id=73
Hi! I have been making cheat sheets for a few years now and using them effectively when learning new technologies!
You might want to add a link to all of them, or a link to my page where I list all of them.
I have created: * awk, * sed, * ed, * perl special variable, * perl pack/unpack and printf, * screen (terminal emulator), * bash emacs editing mode, and * bash vi editing mode cheat sheets.
All of them are available for download in PDF format, some of them are in DOC (Microsoft Word), most of them are also available in TXT (ASCII), and a few latest in LaTeX.
The URL of all the cheat sheets is: http://www.catonmat.net/projects/cheat-sheets
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Dose anybody have or know of a cheat sheet for Dreamweaver CS3 I need help learning the CSS part (I would like to learn it ASAP)
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