12 August 2009
17 Awesome Web Developer Cheat Sheets
Editor’s Note: We’ll be covering Object-Oriented JavaScript, Merb, Rails and more at The Future of Web Apps on Oct 1-2.
I am sure we have all been in the situation where we’ve learned a new piece of software and only a couple of weeks later we’ve forgotten all but the basic commands. This happened to me recently when moving back to SVN after working with Git. Thankfully I have a handful of “cheat sheets” that I call upon at these times.
Here are a list of cheat sheets I find useful:
Server Side Development
Version Control
Front End Development
Command Line
Blogging Tools
GMail
There’s a comprehensive list available on cheat-sheets.org and Dave Child deserves a lot of credit for his own selection, many of which are linked above.
If you know of any more please link them up in the comments.

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Michael Kjeldsen
# August 12, 2009 - 9:03 am
There’s a small problem with the WP Cheat Sheet link ;-)
Keir Whitaker
# August 12, 2009 - 9:07 am
Hey Michael, thanks for pointing that out. All fixed now :)
Dave Child
# August 12, 2009 - 9:04 am
Wow! Thanks for all the link love! I’ve been a bit slack with my releases recently, but hoping to add the new version of MySQL, plus a couple of brand new cheat sheets soon.
Keir Whitaker
# August 12, 2009 - 9:11 am
Hey Dave, no problem. Looking forward to seeing the new ones when they come out.
Stefan
# August 12, 2009 - 10:07 am
This has been ilovejackdaniels.com before, right?
I like the RegEx-sheet at most. It’s very clear and covers almost all topics, what from my perspective a sheet should do. Therefore it’s hard to make one for PHP or any other very feature-rich language.
Dave Child
# August 12, 2009 - 11:25 am
> This has been ilovejackdaniels.com before, right?
Quite right. I moved to AddedBytes.com at the insistence of the JD trademark team last year. Redirects from the old domain will only be in place until the end of the year.
Bruno
# August 12, 2009 - 11:22 am
Wow, really awesome! Thanks a lot!
Mike
# August 12, 2009 - 3:03 pm
Thanks for the list but I’m not sure if i want a Rails cheat sheet from 2006…
Keir Whitaker
# August 12, 2009 - 7:12 pm
Hey Mike, I hope you found some of the other sheets useful. There are a load of Ruby and Rails sheets out there, here are a couple I found with a quick Google 1: http://www.scottklarr.com/topic/104/ruby-and-ruby-on-rails-cheat-sheets/ 2: http://kpumuk.info/internet/ruby-on-rails-related-cheat-sheets/
designiac
# August 12, 2009 - 4:59 pm
You put a few cheat sheets from AddedBytes in this ist, but he has more to offer: http://www.addedbytes.com/cheat-sheets/
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# August 12, 2009 - 6:11 pm
Wow, nice collection!I’ll check out all the links *already checking the PHP one*. Thanks a lot for sharing knowledge with us (:
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# August 12, 2009 - 8:43 pm
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# August 12, 2009 - 11:56 pm
Thanks heaps. Very helpful!
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# August 13, 2009 - 7:49 am
Thank you for putting together the list!
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