Cheat Sheet Roundup - Over 30 Cheatsheets for developers

Updated: February 10, 2022

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

ColdFusion - work in progress
PHP
Ruby
Regex Cheat Sheet
Java

Other

Commercially Printed CheatSheets

Visibone - javascript, browsers, colors, fonts, html.
TechnoChallenged - web dev, programming, os, software

Am I missing any good ones? Feel free to post any others in the comments.

Updates:

Perl - thanks Dom.
Perl - thanks Derek
UML - Andreas again, thanks
PostgreSQL - thanks for the suggestion frank.
XHTML / HTML

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Comments

You just created this list so I would stop bugging you for help with my projects... I know what you're up to mister!

by Jason Dowdell on 09/02/2005 at 10:42:43 AM UTC

great and useful...

by nesz on 09/02/2005 at 11:29:06 AM UTC

Thanks Dom, I added a hyper link to that cheat sheet. Thanks for the compliments nesz. Jason - right on the money ;)

by Pete Freitag on 09/02/2005 at 11:34:50 AM UTC

Where is the one for Flash And Actionscript ?

by tripdragon on 09/02/2005 at 3:33:39 PM UTC

There's a perl cheat sheet here..

http://search.cpan.org/~nwclark/perl-5.8.7/pod/perlcheat.pod

by Derek Bryan on 09/02/2005 at 4:09:14 PM UTC

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. :)

by Brandon Harper on 09/03/2005 at 9:59:11 PM UTC

huh? why is postgreSQL missing? any ideas?

by frank reiser on 09/05/2005 at 8:34:30 PM UTC

Anyone seen one for Apache directives? That would be helpful!

by brent on 09/05/2005 at 10:07:35 PM UTC

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

by Pete Freitag on 09/05/2005 at 10:26:37 PM UTC

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.

by Jijoe on 09/06/2005 at 2:45:19 PM UTC

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

by Gryffyn on 09/07/2005 at 12:37:41 PM UTC

Frank, I dicided to go ahead and make a cheat sheet for postgresql myself: http://www.petefreitag.com/cheatsheets/postgresql/

enjoy, feedback welcome.

by Pete Freitag on 09/07/2005 at 5:24:04 PM UTC

Here's another cheat sheet I'm working on: http://www.petefreitag.com/cheatsheets/grammar/ thoughts?

by Pete Freitag on 09/07/2005 at 5:27:15 PM UTC

Here is another group of "Quick Reference Chart"s I found: http://www.digilife.be/quickreferences/quickrefs.htm

by Ryan Guill on 09/12/2005 at 9:48:36 AM UTC

del.icio.us for code snippets:
http://www.bigbold.com/snippets/

It's the last word in programming cheat sheets.

by Hugh Winkler on 09/15/2005 at 10:50:25 AM UTC

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

by padoor ramaswamy on 09/27/2005 at 7:48:11 AM UTC

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

by Richard Gruet on 12/14/2005 at 9:58:50 AM UTC

More Cheat Sheet in http://refcards.com

by Domingo Redal on 01/16/2006 at 5:46:17 AM UTC

And http://www.deepx.com/resources/quickref/

by Domingo Redal on 01/16/2006 at 6:26:28 AM UTC

A useful reference for GNU Screen is http://aperiodic.net/screen/quick_reference

by Lorrin on 02/24/2006 at 10:12:33 AM UTC

Great Page.

by Michael on 03/21/2006 at 7:11:23 AM UTC

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.

by Joshua Jarman on 05/05/2006 at 12:33:27 PM UTC

Appears link to Regular Expression cheat sheet is broken.

by Bill Woodruff on 05/07/2006 at 9:54:19 AM UTC

this is great. thanks for sharing it with us.

by armeen on 06/20/2006 at 3:50:30 PM UTC

Hi,
The Oracle cheat sheet should be in the Commercial section since it is being sold by a company.
Thanks!
Bill

by Bill McGarry on 10/24/2006 at 10:39:14 AM UTC

The best cheat sheets I have found (and bought) is at:
http://www.visibone.com/products/browserbook.html
Regards,
Tom Pridham
Tampa, FL USA

by Tom Pridham on 12/07/2006 at 5:02:34 PM UTC

Here's another cheat sheet for the Drupal (http://drupal.org) content management system API.

>> http://drupal.org/node/50825

Russ

by rport on 12/30/2006 at 8:59:07 PM UTC

Actionscript Cheet Sheet for Flash Developers link is:

http://actionscriptcheatsheet.com/blog/

by Comet! on 01/15/2007 at 1:58:22 AM UTC

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

by Mr. Apache on 04/01/2007 at 5:58:08 PM UTC

Here is a really neat cheatsheet for Javascript that I found recently

http://www.explainth.at/downloads/jsquick.pdf

by Andrej Upits on 09/14/2007 at 4:45:14 AM UTC

My friend wrote a cheat sheet for CSS shorthand notation: http://edwardwelker.com/blog/2007/09/06/css-shorthand-cheat-sheet/

by Jeffrey Stanley on 09/16/2007 at 12:08:13 PM UTC

SEO Quick Reference or Best Practice Guide
http://mihaigheza.wordpress.com/2007/08/24/mihais-seo-cheat-sheet/

by Mihai on 10/24/2007 at 8:16:13 AM UTC

There is a growing collection of cheatsheets here

http://www.explainth.at/en/menu/qr.shtml

by Matbo on 11/07/2007 at 1:44:58 PM UTC

Wonderful Thanks

by DL on 11/20/2007 at 3:00:56 PM UTC

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/

by Nick Wilsdon on 12/27/2007 at 8:02:43 AM UTC

Very useful list. What about adding my new python cheat sheet?

http://greyfox.imente.org/index.php?id=73

by GreyFox on 01/03/2008 at 4:55:29 AM UTC

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

Sincerely,
Peteris Krumins

by Peteris Krumins on 01/08/2008 at 5:13:09 PM UTC

hi

the link on regexes [Regex - thanks bjhanifin] isnt working. it would be great if you can post the link again.

SP

by Smitha Poluri on 12/10/2008 at 11:14:55 AM UTC

Here is an emacs cheatsheet: http://grok-code.com/207/51-insanely-useful-emacs-shortcuts/

by grokcode on 05/27/2009 at 2:10:04 AM UTC

Great article, thanks for the cheatsheet!

by OC Marketing on 06/22/2009 at 2:55:05 PM UTC

Tons of free cheat sheets for developers (over 1,500) - http://devcheatsheet.com/

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