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Re: [Added Bytes] French Cheat Sheet

d...@addedbytes.com (David Child) — Fri, 03 Mar 2009 15:27:09 UT

Hi David,

Your timing is superb. I have been working on the French cheat sheet
for a few weeks, and have a version 0.1 to get some feedback on. Take
a look - let me know what you think!

I've put it up on Backboard: [link]

Dave

French Cheat Sheet

david.larcheve...@gmail.com (David) — Thu, 03 Mar 2009 18:08:45 UT

Your Cheat Sheets are very helpful.
So, when I read that a French Cheat Sheet was in progress, I thought
the time has come for me to help you to create that brand new sheet.

How is it possible to contribute to the creation of that sheet ?

David (from France)

VI Cheat Sheats

sadhasi...@gmail.com (Sadhasivam Jayabalaganesan) — Thu, 02 Feb 2009 16:06:48 UT

Hi Added Bytes Crew

Can i have Vi sheet cheats ?/

thanks
sadha

Python Cheat Sheet

d...@addedbytes.com (David Child) — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 16:22:23 UT

Hey folks - the Python Cheat Sheet has (finally) been released!
[link]
Thanks for all your help!
Dave

Re: Cheat sheet template

viruswa...@gmail.com (Levi Watts) — Mon, 01 Jan 2009 17:07:07 UT

Up to and so far, this has been all David's work with this board for
posting our suggestions for changes on unreleased sheets. Given how
much work he has put into the sheets, I could understand if he didn't
want to "open source" them.

On the other hand, I'm sure he'd give a thought out reply to

Cheat sheet template

nick.lemou...@gmail.com (Nick Le Mouton) — Mon, 01 Jan 2009 02:04:35 UT

Does anyone have a basic cheat sheet template? I'm looking to do a vi
cheat sheet, but I can't be arsed grabbing the pngs and editing them
in photoshop etc. Does anyone have a PSD or html file that I can edit
and post back here? Of course if it's good enough then I hope you can
publish it on Added Bytes.

Twitter and BackBoard

d...@addedbytes.com (David Child) — Thu, 11 Nov 2008 17:31:53 UT

Hi folks,
In the interests of coming up with a better system for getting
feedback on cheat sheets, I've set up a twitter account and a
backboard account and am going to try those out for a couple of cheat
sheets. If they work effectively they may replace this group setup,
but we'll see - it's still new :).

Python Cheat Sheet - Last Call for Changes

d...@addedbytes.com (David Child) — Sat, 11 Nov 2008 11:13:44 UT

Hi Everyone,
Sorry for the long break between activity. I've been working on a few
new cheat sheets bits and pieces that I hope to be able to start
showing off by the end of the year.
For now, the Python cheat sheet is almost ready to go, I think. The
final gap has been filled with List Methods. File, Date, Time and

Re: [Added Bytes] Cheat Sheets Display Modification

d...@addedbytes.com (David Child) — Fri, 09 Sep 2008 06:08:38 UT

Good idea, Randy. I'll sort that out as soon as I have a few spare minutes.
Dave

Cheat Sheets Display Modification

zoram...@gmail.com (Zoramite) — Thu, 09 Sep 2008 20:32:53 UT

On the pages that show details about the cheat sheet (ex:
[link]) it would be
nice to have the thumbnail shown on the right just link to the png
version of the cheatsheet... I've sent several people there and a lot
of them try to click on the thumbnail and it takes a second to realize

Re: Cheat Sheet Tool

viruswa...@gmail.com (Levi Watts) — Wed, 09 Sep 2008 20:36:09 UT

Dave,

You say you have been working on a tool to satisfy this need. In what
language is the tool written in, and perhaps more importantly, would
it be open source?

Such a tool could cause the number of cheet sheets available to
exploid, with AB as a hub for both user submitted and site approved

Re: [Chess] Suggested Content for a Chess Sheet

malugu.satya...@gmail.com (Satyajit) — Mon, 09 Sep 2008 23:38:03 UT

Hi,

I can assist you guys in creating that chess cheat sheet. I think I
can create all those pics easily.
Just let me know if you are interested.

I am a chess player and have done some programming work on it too.

Thanks
Satyajit

Re: [Added Bytes] Re: Subversion Cheat Sheet 0.1

d...@addedbytes.com (David Child) — Thu, 08 Aug 2008 12:58:00 UT

Thanks, both of you (and to the rest of the group)! The Subversion
Cheat Sheet is now live:
[link]
Enjoy, and please do feel free to continue offering suggestions and
feedback here. It's not perfect, of course, and I'm always looking for
ways to improve these things.

Re: Subversion Cheat Sheet 0.1

switzer.a...@gmail.com (decatech) — Wed, 08 Aug 2008 18:38:48 UT

David,

I think its in great shape for the initial "official" release
tomorrow. I like all of the changes in v2 - removing the one-time info
on repository layout makes sense with the "cheat sheet" approach, and
the Merge examples are great - makes me realize in this instance, it
is easier and less confusing to use the command-line approach than it

Re: Subversion Cheat Sheet 0.1

zoram...@gmail.com (Zoramite) — Wed, 08 Aug 2008 13:13:18 UT

The svn cheatsheet is looking good, the only thing i might add is some
of the built in properties such as svn:ignore and svn:externals and
the like, but not sure where you would put them... ;)

Thanks for all the hard work!

Zoramite

Re: [Added Bytes] Re: Python Cheat Sheet

d...@addedbytes.com (David Child) — Wed, 08 Aug 2008 09:25:19 UT

Charly, it's never too late - even after a cheat sheet has been
released I'm happy to change it if someone has an improvement. :)
Great suggestions, too. List methods are a definite yes, and date and
time methods sound useful too. What information, precisely, would you
want to see added in a string formatting section?

Re: [Added Bytes] Re: Subversion Cheat Sheet 0.1

d...@addedbytes.com (David Child) — Wed, 08 Aug 2008 08:52:19 UT

Thanks, Alan - good idea.
I've made a few small changes to the SVN cheat sheet, and the new
version is on Google now:
[link]
I've added a merge section as suggested. I've also removed the
Recommended Repo layout bit - not, I think, something will need a

Re: Subversion Cheat Sheet 0.1

switzer.a...@gmail.com (decatech) — Wed, 08 Aug 2008 06:16:56 UT

David,

The first version of the Subversion cheat sheet looks great so far. My
only suggestion is to possibly add a section on Merging, which is
quite confusing, even thru the GUI interface of TortoiseSVN, as I
always seem to specify it backwards from what Subversion wants.

Thanks for your efforts - they are appreciated.

Re: Regular Expressions on Cheat Sheets

charly.walt...@googlemail.com (CharlyW) — Tue, 08 Aug 2008 23:24:15 UT

Yes, great idea. If you have the time, you could add Vim Regex Syntax
to the sheet - it's very complicated (maybe already to specific, just
an idea...)

Re: Python Cheat Sheet

charly.walt...@googlemail.com (CharlyW) — Tue, 08 Aug 2008 23:20:16 UT

Don't know if it's already too late, but I suppose feedback is always
appreciated.
At first, good idea to remove the regexp section, because it's almost
always the same. I hope you replace it with a list of list methods?!
And to the list of special class methods, if you mention some of the
mathematical operators like __eq__() you should maybe also mention

Re: Python Cheat Sheet

d...@addedbytes.com (Dave Child) — Sat, 08 Aug 2008 20:50:16 UT

Thanks for your feedback, Levi. From the sound of it, I get the
impression that there might be better options out there.

Saw getbackboard.com the other day - looks like it might be a good
alternative. Would be perfect if it allowed you to give a public URL
to a board, but sadly you have to invite everyone individually,

Re: Python Cheat Sheet

viruswa...@gmail.com (Levi Watts) — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 17:33:07 UT

On three systems that I have worked on, each had methods of giving
feedback. I have yet to receive feedback on any of those. The first
had a user base in the few hundred, but the users didn't have reason
to use it often. The second and third had active users, but never
over twenty.

A comment system that appears on the same page as the subject being

[Python] Python Cheat Sheet

d...@addedbytes.com (David Child) — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 14:31:30 UT

The Python cheat sheet will, unless there's anything else to be
changed, be released next week, so if you have anything to add or
suggest, now's the time!
Latest version is still:
[link]
The one change that is going to be completed this weekend is that the

[Subversion] Subversion Cheat Sheet 0.1

d...@addedbytes.com (David Child) — Mon, 07 July 2008 14:17:02 UT

I've been working on the Subversion Cheat Sheet too, as you may have
noticed from the site's "In Progress" list, and that also is now ready
to be sent out for feedback. I've uploaded the first version to the
google group.
All feedback, suggestions and criticisms are welcome. This is where
I'm hoping the group approach will prove most useful, with more eyes

Re: [Added Bytes] Regular Expressions on Cheat Sheets

hussain...@gmail.com (hw) — Mon, 07 July 2008 11:53:36 UT

Hi,
I would say that it is better to put it into related cheatsheets sections
rather than cluttering up all the cheatsheets with redundant info. We can
then have space for more information on the topic.
Of course, for mod_rewrite, we don't have much info apart from regex and it
makes sense to keep regex there. For other topics which are not so strongly

Regular Expressions on Cheat Sheets

d...@addedbytes.com (David Child) — Mon, 07 July 2008 10:49:40 UT

I've also been looking at the regex section for the Python and other
programming cheat sheets, and it occurs to me that there is a great
deal of redundancy there. I use the PHP, mod_Rewrite and Regex cheat
sheets, and will be using Python. So I'll have a complete cheat sheet
for regex as well as three small regex syntax sections on the others.

[Python] Cheat Sheet 0.1

d...@addedbytes.com (David Child) — Mon, 07 July 2008 09:45:22 UT

Hi everyone,
I have uploaded the first version of the Python cheat sheet to Google
groups, and I'm really looking forward to hearing what you have to say
about it. All feedback, suggestions and criticisms are welcome. This
is where I'm hoping the group approach will prove most useful, with
more eyes (and brains) to spot errors, suggest changes and additions,

Re: [Added Bytes] Re: Contents List

d...@addedbytes.com (David Child) — Mon, 07 July 2008 09:26:21 UT

Hi Charly,
Thanks for your feedback and suggestions. I spent some time on this at
the weekend.
I've added a sys.argv section, but wanted to check something - did you
mean a sort of visual example of how vars are assigned from the
command line to sys.argv? I've added a block with a python command
line call with arguments and shown how they are assigned to sys.argv

cheat sheet

cole007....@gmail.com (Cole Henley) — Wed, 07 July 2008 12:51:53 UT

Have added a request to the Added Bytes site but wanted to sound out
about what people thought about a CSS browser compatibility/support
cheat sheet, a la the tables over at quirks mode [1]. Happy to help
with some of the logistics and presentation if required.
Cole
[link]
[1] [link]

Re: [Added Bytes] Crippa spa

d...@addedbytes.com (David Child) — Tue, 07 July 2008 13:35:16 UT

The group's up for mere days and being spammed already. Member banned
and reported, of course.
I've turned on "new member" moderation, to prevent this sort of thing.
Hopefully it won't affect the flow.
Dave

Crippa spa

saraswathianandanaa...@gmail.com (aathi) — Tue, 07 July 2008 13:13:53 UT

Crippa spa

Constructions Tamilnadu

Constructions

[link]

Re: Contents List

charly.walt...@googlemail.com (CharlyW) — Mon, 07 July 2008 22:49:49 UT

I always like the list of functions most, reserved words and command
line options are not so interesting, because you rarely look up that.
And from the Exceptions only the most important ones, like IndexError,
KeyErrory, TypeError and ZeroDivision Error.
Maybe you should have a look at some important modules like os.

Re: [Python] Contents List

d...@addedbytes.com (Dave Child) — Thu, 07 July 2008 13:35:23 UT

I've been busy dealing with more hosting problems this last week, so
if anyone has any thoughts on the Python cheat sheet content, it's not
too late to add them :)

Dave

Re: [Added Bytes] WScript cheatsheet

d...@addedbytes.com (David Child) — Tue, 07 July 2008 13:22:18 UT

WScript looks like it could be very useful. I'm completely unfamiliar
with WScript though, so this is definitely one for the list to decide
upon!
Looking forward to seeing your suggested content, hw.
Dave

WScript cheatsheet

hussain...@gmail.com (hw) — Tue, 07 July 2008 13:11:23 UT

Hi again,
I also thought about a cheatsheet for WScript. There is a VBScript
cheatsheet but it tends towards the web scripting aspect. I think a WScript
oriented cheatsheet would be useful.
I have not thought of a list of topics for this one. I will post a list
soon, if I can.
hw

COM+ cheatsheet

hussain...@gmail.com (hw) — Tue, 07 July 2008 12:53:25 UT

Hi,
I wanted to put in my vote for COM+ cheatsheet. I am trying to enumerate all
the content that would be helpful. So far, I have come up with:
- Transaction Attribute Dependencies
- Transaction Isolation Levels
- Transaction Chain
- HRESULT facility codes
- HRESULT common error codes

Re: Cheat Sheet Suggestion

d...@addedbytes.com (Dave Child) — Tue, 07 July 2008 12:44:27 UT

Thanks Tom.

Did you have any specific ideas for content for a Zend Framework cheat
sheet?

Dave

Korn Shell Cheat Sheet

unb...@gmail.com (unbeta) — Mon, 07 July 2008 13:39:05 UT

I have created a Korn Shell Cheat Sheet I would like to upload.
Please advise.

Thanks.

Michael

Cheat Sheet Suggestion

tmilew...@gmail.com (Tom Milewski) — Fri, 07 July 2008 18:08:11 UT

My cheat sheet suggestion would be to create one or more for the Zend
Framework.

Thanks for your amazing work.

- Tom

Re: [Added Bytes] [Chess] Suggested Content for a Chess Sheet

d...@addedbytes.com (David Child) — Fri, 07 July 2008 07:47:58 UT

Levi,
Great idea, and nice content outline. I've added "Chess" as a request
to the list. This is definitely one I'd like to do - I play chess
(badly) and a cheat sheet would have been useful when I was learning,
all those years ago!
Dave

[Chess] Suggested Content for a Chess Sheet

viruswa...@gmail.com (Levi Watts) — Fri, 07 July 2008 04:35:16 UT

Though such a cheat sheet may not be made anytime soon, doesn't mean
information about it can't begin being gathered and discussed.

The basics:
The set up of the board to begin with, noting that the lower left
corner of each player is black, and lady (queen) gets her color.
How each piece moves w/ symbolised pieces and arrows demonstrating

[Python] Contents List

d...@addedbytes.com (Dave Child) — Tue, 07 July 2008 17:36:05 UT

Hi everyone! I was worried the group would be me by myself for a
while, so nice to see a few people wanting to help already.
I'm busy beavering away on the new Python cheat sheet, and hope to
release it this month. I'm interesting in getting your thoughts on
content for the content, especially if you have experience with

Re: Cheat Sheet Tool

d...@addedbytes.com (Dave Child) — Sun, 07 July 2008 16:40:18 UT

Hi Jim :)

I hadn't planned on mentioning this for a while, as I'm not sure how
long it's going to take me to finish, but I've been working on a
"Create-Your-Own" cheat sheet tool.

It allows you to add one URL for each block you want on the cheat
sheet. The URL can be on any server and returns an XML document

Cheat Sheet Tool

aiko.one...@googlemail.com (Jim Beam) — Sun, 07 July 2008 16:27:49 UT

Hi,

my opinion is, that there should be a Cheat Sheet Tool which makes it
easier to create Cheat Sheets for oneself. Best solution would be
something like a layouting tool that behaves similar to the
netvibes.com page. And then you'd just take the "windows" you need out
of a pool (which is ideally filled by a community) and put em on your

Welcome

d...@addedbytes.com (Dave Child) — Sun, 07 July 2008 14:59:48 UT

Hi, and welcome to the Added Bytes Cheat Sheets group!
In case you'd not seen it yet, there's a quick overview of the cheat
sheet creation process at:
[link]
This is rather rough for now, and I intend to improve it pretty
organically as time goes on.
To update you as to the status of current work: