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ilovejackdaniels.com — A nice assortment of cheat sheets for web developers/designers, including CSS, PHP, MySQL, Ruby on Rails, and more! You can print them out easily to use as a quick reference.

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  • tfizzle, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6I fail to understand how all of this useful information ends up on a site like ilovejackdaniels.com

    Maybe if I drank more JD it would make perfect sense to me.
    • MrFusion, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5"About
      ILoveJackDaniels.com is the online playground of Dave Child, an internet marketing consultant and web developer from Brighton, on the south coast of the UK"
      :) i assume its not affiliated with the Whiskey of the same name
    • atelophobee, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0who puts a tech site at "ILJD.com"!?
    • LoveJackDaniels, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Me :)
    • atelophobee, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1lol... is it whiskey-related or other? aren't you afraid people won't take you seriously enough to go 2+ deep into your page?
    • LoveJackDaniels, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Whiskey related. ILoveJackDaniels was my nick on IRC for a while. It stuck ...

      I'm not really fussed about how people view it. I don't want to be taken too seriously - I run the site for my own pleasure (and to make a little extra cash, of course). On the plus side, it's a memorable domain name, and always gets a laugh when I give out my email address to anyone. :)
  • redwire, on 10/12/2007, -3/+3Agreed a very odd place to have it but these are VERY VERY useful if I could digg this twice I would.
    • geezusfreeek, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3These all seem to be nice except for the RoR one. It doesn't really seem to have any useful information on it besides the Regex reference. Nothing that pertains to Rails so much as Ruby in general, and even that is a bit dumbed down.... I digg it for the CSS on though.
  • Jeffrey903, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I'm just being curious here, but what makes a color "web safe" and one not? It's probably something to do with 256K (back in the really old days). But does it really matter today? I know that when I design websites I choose the colors that I think look best -- not "web safe" ones.
    • samuelcotterall, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1It's something to do with older browsers and pre-CSS design, I believe. I always remember Internet Explorer showing different colours to Netscape Navigator, and so on - but the 216 colours were the ones that had no problems.

      Remember the days when you used to use a JPEG to define the background colour? Never again.

      http://www.primeshop.com/html/216colrs.htm
    • LoveJackDaniels, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Originally, web-safe colours were used because monitors couldn't display that many colours. More recently, it is an AOL thing - AOL caches and optimises images, reducing the number of colours in gifs. That meant that if you wanted an image to look the same to AOL users after optimisation, it needed to be web-safe. Not that it matters now, because all web designers hates AOL users.
    • GeneralFailure, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Another difference is that web-safe colors can be represented by 3-digit hex while non-web-safe require 6. Web 2.0 sites like using these to "save bandwidth".

      Web safe: #696, #00C, #CCC
      Non-web-safe: #123456, #EFEFEF
    • liquidizer, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Designers would sometimes find that colours didn't just turn out slightly different shades on different platforms - they were totally different colours. The websafe colour palette was devised in the 90s and shows the colours that rendered consistently on different browsers (IE vs Netscape then) and on different platforms (Apple & PC). It's probably considered obsolete by most designers now.
    • frogpelt, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0IE and FireFox still show some colors differently. There are especially differences between the way IE and FireFox display .png images.

  • samuelcotterall, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5These have been posted quite a few times already.

    They are good though. I have them laminated above my desk.
  • timophy, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1I'm surprised there isn't a cheat sheet on their for mixing drinks.
  • topcataj, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I fail to understand how all this tech stuff ends up on a site like digg.com, I mean, I've not seen anything relating to spades or JCB's?!

    Duh.

    Top fella Dave is, very useful set of guides, think they were all dugg individually a while ago ;)
  • postlogic, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Haha, good timing. I was just sitting here thinking of collecting some cheat sheets to one site for easy reference. *bookmark*
    • samuelcotterall, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Don't just bookmark... print them out!
  • SilverGinger5, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Great site. Very useful resources. Author is a top guy but strangely enough he doesn't seem to actually drink much Jack Daniels these days.
  • dfunked, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Even though I'm sure this has been on Digg before, I'm digging this again, since these are the cheat sheets printed and hanging from my desk right now :)
  • Flinty, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Digg effect...
  • LoveJackDaniels, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Dammit. My host appear to have taken my site down. The digg effect is impressive.
  • BloatedBunny, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2http://www.duggmirror.com/programming/Web_Development_Cheat_Sheets/ n(copy and paste)
  • LoveJackDaniels, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I've mirrored the sheets at http://www.coloursudoku.com/cheat-sheets/ - let's hope DreamHost are better with traffic than RealWebHost! No description or anything like that, just the sheets.
  • PRAT, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Google has cached most of the cheat sheets. Here is the one for PHP.
    http://66.249.93.104/search?q=cache:UefjRZZyEaYJ:www.ilovejackdaniels.com/php/php-cheat-sheet/+php+cheat+sheets&hl=en&gl=uk&ct=clnk&cd=1
  • veracon, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2Honestly, new?

    C'mon...
    • kmarius, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Most of the previous diggs have been about the individual cheat sheets. "AJAX", "Rails" etc. This is the (first?) digg about all of them.
  • Rounin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3http://www.digg.com/search?search=ilovejackdaniels&submit=Submit
  • MalDON, on 10/12/2007, -11/+4Marked as old, simply because it is very old.
  • utahsaint, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10marked as an ass, because you really are.
  • SnOwie, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1it's old, but I lost it , good to have it back now :)
    It's realy handy.

    Can somebody explain to me what ruby on rails is btw.
  • inajeep, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Dug because I like the way these are formatted and I needed them for work anyway. Thank you.
  • spyres, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1It is very very old, but pretty good still so....
  • reecon, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0CSS cheatsheet needs notes on browser compatability.
  • stephaniegrace, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0thank jobe (and ILoveJackDaniels), i always forget the character codes.

    printed, laminated, next to my machine.
  • madrox, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0link is broke
  • heliosquare, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0no kidding...read the comments...
  • diakonos, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I prefer the spiral-bound packet from Visibone -- http://www.visibone.com/ -- for quick reference materials. Sure, they are not FREE like the PNG/PDFs from ILJD.com, but I find them indispensable and kept within reach for near-daily use. They are also laminated to withstand regular use.
  • LoveJackDaniels, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1And it's back online again. Wonderful.
  • starheinz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Great work. This goes straight up unto my cubicle wall.
  • coldfusion1970, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Great idea.
  • walterk29, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Great site and all, but these cheat sheets have been around for a while.
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