Cheat Sheets
A selection of free, printable quick references for a variety of languages and web technologies.
30 January 2012
Who says cheat sheets have to be geeky? The 2012 Six Nations is about to start, so I've put together the ultimate one-page help sheet for rugby fans.
2 January 2012
A cheat sheet for Wikipedia editors, with formatting help, useful links and a glossary of common shortcuts.
2 January 2012
The Vimeo API cheat sheet, for advanced API methods.
2 January 2012
A cheat sheet for the discerning historian: Kings and Queens of the United Kingdom.
3 November 2011
A cheat sheet for NaNoWriMo (write a 50,000 word book in November!), with some dramatic situations, the Hero's Journey, a word count tracker and some inspirational quotes to keep you going.
29 October 2011
The Linux Command Line Cheat Sheet, a quick reference guide for bash and other command line tools in Linux.
21 October 2011
A cheat sheet for French to English words and phrases.
22 January 2009
The Python Cheat Sheet, a quick reference guide for the Python programming language.
7 August 2008
The Subversion Cheat Sheet, a quick reference guide for command line Subversion.
30 June 2008
The second version of the Regular Expressions Cheat Sheet, a quick reference guide for regular expressions, including symbols, ranges, grouping, assertions and some sample patterns to get you started.
30 June 2008
The second version of the mod_rewrite Cheat Sheet, a quick reference guide for mod_rewrite, with rewrite flags, regular expression syntax and sample rules.
30 June 2008
The second version of the PHP Cheat Sheet, a quick reference guide for PHP, with functions references, a regular expression syntax guide and a reference for PHP's date formating functions.
30 June 2008
The second version of the CSS Cheat Sheet, a quick reference guide for CSS, listing selector syntax, properties, units and other useful bits of information.
20 July 2007
Microsoft's SQL Server is a powerful database server that integrates well with other Microsoft technologies like ASP and .NET, and includes some of the best database management tools available. This A4 reference lists the various functions available in SQL Server, and demonstrates the creation of stored procedures, triggers and functions.
8 January 2007
HTML is the language of the web. It is the semantic support on which websites depend. This A4 reference lists the various tags available to the web designer, as well as a selection of useful character entities, attributes and events.
14 September 2006
Regular Expressions are very powerful, and many people find their unusual syntax hard to get to grips with. This A4 reference serves as a guide to regular expression patterns and options.
9 September 2006
Microformats allow us to add more information to our documents on the web, embedding semantic data in web pages that can then be parsed and used in other applications. This reference sheet contains an overview of the most often used microformats.
14 February 2006
World of Warcraft may not be a web design, development or marketing topic, but that doesn't mean I don't need a cheat sheet for it. I've just started playing and can't remember all the slash commands and shortcut keys, so this is a simple quick reference for just that.
11 January 2006
A quick reference guide for Ruby on Rails, containing the default directory structure, predefined variables, methods, reserved words and regular expression syntax.
1 January 2006
A quick reference guide for ASP / VBScript, containing functions, collections, regular expression syntax and other useful bits of information.
29 September 2005
I'm forever looking up character codes, so this cheat sheet was a no-brainer. This contains a list of the assigned character codes in HTML, with an example of how they are displayed, and description.
1 August 2005
A quick reference guide for JavaScript, listing methods and functions, and including a guide to regular expressions and the XMLHttpRequest object.
24 May 2005
A quick reference guide for MySQL, including functions (both in MySQL and PHP), data types, and sample queries. Available in PDF and PNG formats.
10 May 2005
A quick reference guide for mod_rewrite, including server variables, flags and regular expression syntax. Also includes examples of commonly-used rules.
30 April 2005
A quick reference guide for CSS, listing selector syntax, properties, units and other useful bits of information.
22 April 2005
I'm fed up with having to visit php.net to look things up. This A4 cheat sheet is designed to sit by your desk and make your life easier.
22 September 2003
A free, printer-friendly RGB Hex colour chart for web designers.