Handy (free) Web Development Cheat Sheets
After digging around the internets for a good list of HTML character entities I remembered finding and printing off their great Regular Expression cheat sheet at work and thougth there was a chance they might have a sheet for characters too. How could I forget the name of the site… I Love Jack Daniels.
The top result in a Google search for “ilovejackdaniels” was AddedBytes. After reading the blog post that explained why Dave the site’s owner had to rebrand after losing a battle with the owners of the Jack Daniels trade mark I quickly found the nicely organized cheat sheets area.
Here, in no particular order, are the seven cheat sheets I thought were worthy of downloading and printing. Obviously the worthiness of a given cheat sheet will vary based on the kind of development you do…
Dave also has a variety of other cheat sheets available. Ranging from microformats and Ruby On Rails, to mod_rewrite and ASP / VBscript (bleh). There is even a cheat sheet for World Of Warcraft!
I decided to download the files in PDF format and then use a GhostScript trick (included in OS X) to merge them into one PDF in the order I wanted. There are also a number of good free tools available for Mac and PC that can help you complete that task. I printed them duplexed at 1200dpi on my laser printer. Using a slightly heaver bond paper helped prevent the back pages characters from showing or bleeding through. All of the cheat sheets are well layed-out, and though they all contain a sizable amount of information they are quite readable.
Dave has also created a Google Group to assist in the creation and enhancement of the cheat sheet series. I look forward to seeing the project grow and evolve.