This is one of the “Tiny tips” series.
The purpose is to share little pieces of helpful practices and tricks that will make your work better and more pleasant.
Take a look at the other tyny tips like: Automate your environment.
Upgrade your working environment by surrounding yourself with easily accessible helpers.
Print out some useful (for you) content that can be used as a quick reference.
Of course, you can store all of those cheat sheets in electronic format somewhere on your hard drive (or URL bookmarks).
However, I would advise you to have some on paper.
That way you will not search for the file and disturb your inertion.
The physical version has a psychological aspect as well. You know that a piece of particular knowledge is exactly somewhere in the space around you and you can have a look at it for a second. So you are going to make references to those “extensions of your brain” in an absolutely natural and even semi-unconscious way.
Let me share with you some example resources:
- https://www.bigocheatsheet.com/ – Algorithms complexities cheat sheet.
- https://www.atlassian.com/git/tutorials/atlassian-git-cheatsheet – Basic GIT commands.
- SQL Server:
– https://cheatography.com/davechild/cheat-sheets/sql-server/ : Basics.
– https://tableplus.com/blog/2018/08/ms-sql-server-data-types-cheatsheet.html : Data types
– https://www.guru99.com/sql-cheat-sheet.html : More complete list. - https://cheatography.com/kstep/cheat-sheets/http-status-codes/ – HTTP status codes.
- https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/ide/default-keyboard-shortcuts-in-visual-studio?view=vs-2019 – Visual Studi keyboard shortcuts.
- https://cheatography.com/davechild/cheat-sheets/regular-expressions/ – Regular expressions.
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