Bookmark Bliss: The Developer Cheat Sheet Compilation
March 14, 2007 | Comments (53) | Filed under: Programming
This is a post I put together a few months back for one of my friends blogs before I got started doing things myself. I guess he wasn’t much for blogging longevity and sort of gave up before he even began. Like my article on 50 sources for web design inspiration, this list comes primarily from my years of accumulated bookmarks. I think this article was a great resource though and is one I think Bookmark Bliss readers will be interested in, so I decided to post it here as well so it didn’t go extinct. I’ve added some new stuff I’ve found since the original posting so hopfully this is as useful to you as it has been for me…
I know personally, I’m not one of those people that can remember every detail of every language without looking things up. It’s nice to have a cheat sheet with a quick summary of some of the most commonly used procedures, tags, tools, syntax, etc, saving time that would have been used to look it up on Google or dig through documentation either online or in printed text. The following is a list of links to several different cheat sheets on a wide variety of tasks and tools. You can print them out and hang them on your wall (my personal choice) or simply bookmark them for easy access down the road. If you have any additional suggestions or see something I’ve missed, let me know…
Command Line
- Windows NT/XP Command Line Reference
- Bash Command Line Reference
- Bash Command Line Programming Reference
- DOS Commands
Databases
- Firebird SQL Cheat Sheet
- MySQL Cheat Sheet
- MySQL Reference List
- Oracle Cheat Sheet
- Oracle PL/SQL Cheat Sheet
- Oracle 9i Server Reference (PDF)
- Oracle 9i Command Reference
- PostgreSQL Cheat Sheet
- PostgreSQL Cheat Sheet List
- SQL Cheat Sheet
- SQL Server 2005 Commands
Programming
- Ada Syntax Card (PDF)
- ASP/VBScript Cheat Sheet
- C++ Language Summary
- C++ Reference Sheet (PDF)
- C++ Containers Cheat Sheet
- C# Language Reference
- C# Programmer’s Reference Sheet
- Delphi Technical Reference Card (PDF)
- Java Syntax Cheat Sheet
- Java Quick Reference (PDF)
- Java Reference for C++
- JSP 2.0 Syntax Reference Sheet (PDF)
- LaTeX Reference Card (PDF)
- .NET Cheat Sheets
- Perl Cheat Sheet
- Perl Reference Card (PDF)
- Perl Regular Expression Quick Reference (PDF)
- Perl Reference Guide
- PHP Cheat Sheet
- PHP Developer Cheat Sheet
- Python 101 Cheat Sheet
- Python 2.5 Quick Reference
- Python Cheat Sheet
- Python Quick Reference (PDF)
- Ruby Cheat Sheet (PDF)
- Ruby on Rails Cheat Sheet Collectors Edition
- Ruby Reference
- Ruby on Rails Reference Sheet
Unix/Linux
- Debian Linux Reference Guide (PDF)
- Linux Shortcuts and Commands
- One Page Linux Manual (PDF)
- TCP Ports List
- Treebeard’s Unix Cheat Sheet
- Unix Command Line Tips
Web Development
- Actionscript 2.0 Cheat Sheet (PDF)
- Actionscript 3.0 Cheat Sheet (PDF)
- Cold Fusion Cheat Sheet
- CSS Cheat Sheet
- CSS 2 Reference Card (PDF)
- CSS Reference Sheet
- CSS Shorthand Guide
- CSS Useful Properties
- Drupal 4.7 Cheat Sheet
- .htaccess Cheat Sheet
- HTML Cheat Sheet
- HTML Dom Quick Reference Card (PDF)
- Javascript Cheat Sheet
- Javascript Quick Reference
Javascript Reference Page* No Longer Available- JQuery Cheat Sheet (PDF)
- JQuery Reference (PDF)
- JQuery Visual Map
- Mod_Rewrite Cheat Sheet
- Scriptaculous Combination Effects Field Guide (PDF)
- XHTML Cheat sheet
- XHTML Reference
- XHTML & HTML Cheat Sheet
- XML Syntax Quick Reference (PDF)
- XML Schema Reference (PDF)
- XSLT and XPath Quick Reference (PDF)
Miscellaneous Topics
- Ascii Codes Cheat Sheet
- CVS Cheat Sheet
- EMacs Keyboard Shortcut Reference
- Regular Expressions Cheat Sheet
- RGB Hex Colour Chart
Subversion Quick Reference (PDF)* No Longer Available- Theoretical Computer Science Cheat Sheet (PDF)
- UML Quick Reference Card (PDF)
- UML Cheat Sheet
- Vi Cheat Sheet
- Vim Commands Cheat Sheet
- XEmacs Commands Cheat Sheet
Have you found this list useful? If so, show your support by subscribing to our news feed. We’ve posted several other entries in our Bookmark Bliss series that you might find interesting as well…
- Bookmark Bliss: 50 Sources for Web Design Inspiration
- Bookmark Bliss: The Developer Cheat Sheet Compilation
- Bookmark Bliss: 30 Web Developer Community Forums
- Bookmark Bliss: 101+ Stock Image Resources
As always, your comments are welcome and please let us know of any sites we might have missed.
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Where’s the C? Some of us _do_ still use plain old C!
Bookmarked, this is great!
probably would be more useful to me when I learn more about website development.
The Subversion cheat sheet has been taken down. =(
Great list though!
Thank you! Any way we could download all this in one Zip file?
Thanks for the updates. It would be a little tough to put together a big zip file as some of the cheat sheets are multi-page HTML files. It might be doable though, I will look into it.
The Bash programming cheat sheet (much different from your bash commands cheat sheet, which is really a linux command cheat sheet): link
(Also, you should make sure you check out the copyrights of all those articles before you zip them up – many of them are likely not open documents)
Thanks again for the updates. I removed the Subversion cheat sheet because the link seems to be down, and I added the bash programming cheat sheet. Thanks for the updates Bill and Chris…
Also, I added a link to http://rgruet.free.fr/PQR25/PQR2.5.html under Python 2.5 Quick Reference as suggested by a reader from Reddit.
Perl is spelled Perl, not PERL. Thanks for this great list.
Nice collection. If you feel inclined to make a correction, Perl is not properly all caps. Might be nice to outright mention/link the refcards.com home too.
Fixed the Perl spelling problem
Thanks for the Updates!
You should _definitely_ add this Rails cheat sheet:
Ruby on Rails Cheat Sheet Collectors Edition
(I’m by no means related with the author)
Brilliant list!!!
the Javascript Reference Page link points to a disabled site
It’s not ‘PERL’; it’s ‘Perl’. Perl is not an acronym. It’s a name, just as Ruby or Python.
BASH is not an acronym either. It should not be all caps. Arguably, it should be all lower case, but initial caps is acceptable.
LaTeX should have a lower-case a and e. Yeah, that’s odd, but that’s the official form.
Two other cheat sheets:
PostgreSQL
http://www.alberton.info/postgresql_cheat_sheet.html
Firebird SQL
http://www.alberton.info/firebird_cheat_sheet.html
Niko
Added the Ruby on Rails Cheat Sheet. Thanks for the Link!
Lorenzo
Added both SQL Cheat Sheets. Thanks for the Link!
Michael
Fixed the spelling of Bash and LaTeX. Thanks for the Correction!
Peterpoe
I removed the broken Javascript Reference, Thanks for Catching that!
clearcase anyone?
Superb collection! Very useful!
Tcl CS can be added as well: http://wiki.tcl.tk/10710
mycelly.com is good to start your site off i think
There is another good MySQL Cheat Sheet at:
http://insites.ingenesis.net/2007/04/11/mysql-reference-cheat-sheet/
Nice list, some useful stuff!
This list is a god send for me. Get the creative juices flowing nicely. Thanks for the post.
Thanks for the list!
Ruby on Rails Cheat Sheet Collectors Edition is gone now though.