Tuesday, January 20, 2009

Cheat Sheet Collection

Programming Cheat Sheets

Have you ever been programming and simply forgotten a command? When ever that has happened to me, I've had to go to google or the api website to find documentation, and many times that takes longer than I want. Then I discovered programming cheat sheets. Programming cheat sheets are ethical, time-saving, tree killing documents that have commonly used functions, procedures, commands, or examples to jog your memory when programming.

For your convenience, I've put together a zip file with 13 Cheat Sheets. Below is a description of some of the ones you will find in this collection.

You may download it here.



CakePHP Cheat Sheet

The CakePHP Cheat Sheet is helpful for all of your baking needs. It includes naming conventions, common model commands, controller commands, view commands, helper properties, globals, and component information.

Cake can be found at http://cakephp.org






HTML Character Sets


The HTML Character Set Cheat Sheet is quite useful for finding out what the & character is or for escaping "'s. Also it is useful when using template engines that have problems with characters like { or $.











HTML Color Chart Cheat Sheets

This is an essential for designers or when you are coding CSS on-the-fly. It is also useful when picking colors for a new website.



CSS Cheat Sheet

Most web designers have their favorite CSS documentation site bookmarked. Many use reference books to lookup css attributes. This cheat sheet is useful for both novice and experienced CSS'ers to serve as a reminder of the names of css attributes.






Git Cheat Sheet

Git is a great repository system that allows you to archive all of your work quickly, and be able to keep your large project organized. Similar to SVN or CVS, Git offers a local repository as well as public repositories for sharing code. The cheat sheet is very valuable as a reminder of what commands to use for using Git.




HTML Cheat Sheet

Are you often forgetting what HTML is able to do? This cheat sheet has a list of much of the markup that you may not normally use, as well as those old favorites.





Also included are:
  • Javascript Cheat Sheet
  • Jquery Cheat Sheet
  • Mysql Cheat Sheet
  • Php Cheat Sheet
  • Prototype Cheat Sheet
  • Regular Expressions Cheat Sheet
The full download is available here.

Feel free to post additional cheat sheets in the comments section.

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