About DevCheatSheet.com

What is a "cheat sheet"?

According to Wikipedia, "A cheat sheet or crib sheet is a concise set of notes used for quick reference." ... "In more general usage, a 'cheat sheet' is any short (one or two page) reference to terms, commands, or symbols where the user is expected to understand the use of such terms etc but not necessarily to have memorized all of them."

Cheat sheets are wonderful resources for developers. They make it easy to find the correct syntax, command, or keyboard shortcut that you often forget. Cheat sheets are especially useful when you are learning a new programming language or framework, since they condense the essential parts of the manual into just a couple pages. So stop memorizing and start using cheat sheets.

Cheat sheets (often spelled "cheatsheets") are known by many different names including: quick reference cards, quick reference guides, reference cards, refcards, refsheets, quickrefs, quicksheets, helpsheets, or crib sheets.

DevCheatSheet.com Features

DevCheatSheet.com is a directory of free, technical cheat sheets and quick reference cards for developers, programmers, engineers, and nerds. Cheat sheets are aggregated from around the web into one centralized directory. All cheat sheets on DevCheatSheet.com are free and each has been manually reviewed to assure high quality.

Feature list:

• 1,965 cheat sheets and growing quickly
• Browse cheat sheets by category, tag, or source
• Search cheat sheets
• Sort by date added to directory or alphabetically
• Thumbnail preview image for each cheat sheet
• Book recommendations on Amazon
• Individual permalink for each cheat sheet
• Full attribution to the cheat sheet creator with link to the original source
• User submissions. Anyone can suggest a cheat sheet that is missing from the directory.
• Related tag suggestions
• RSS feeds, including individual feeds for each tag
• Twitter updates. A tweet is sent for each cheatsheet added to the directory. Follow us on Twitter!
• del.icio.us integration. Every cheatsheet added to the directory is bookmarked in delicious.
• Facebook Page. Become a fan of DevCheatSheet on Facebook!
• More features coming soon

Background Info

This site was created in 2009 by Tim Church. Every blog seemed to be doing its own "cheat-sheet roundup", but there was no good directory site for cheatsheets. Finding good reference cards was a challenge because Google often gives mediocre results (probably due to the many different names/keywords for cheat sheets). Devcheatsheet.com was created to fill this void and simplify the process of finding the best cheat sheets on the web.

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To submit a cheatsheet to be added to the directory, please use the cheat sheet suggestion form.

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