Reference

This collection is my first stop for programming info. When I'm learning a lang/lib, I like to make a cheatsheet about its peculiarities & flaws (as I see them). People seem to find these more interesting than the usual tutorials that start with "hello world" :)

◆ = by Tom Novelli
↗ = by others (external link)

JavaScript / HTML5 / Web Apps

JavaScript, the core language

My cheatsheet
Codecademy (popular interactive tutorial)
Mozilla JS docs: Reference -- Re-Introduction (short) -- Guide (long)
Text processing --- String -- RegExp -- JS regex oddities
Specs --- ES 5.1 (ECMA-262) (official PDF) -- TODO: ES6 (future) & Harmony (far future)

Backend -- Node.js

API docs
Popular libs --- Express -- Connect
good summary
Good advice: Bulletproof Node.js Coding

Frontend -- HTML5 and related APIs

HTML5 APIs WORK IN PROGRESS
HTML5/CSS3 summary
HTML5 uber-spec --- WHATWG "Living Standard" -- W3C HTML5 spec (less helpful) -- Change summary for HTML5, DOM4, XHR2, ES5, ES6 specs
CSS --- Basic cheatsheet -- My crappy old cheatsheet -- Nicole Sullivan's blog (full of good advice)
DOM --- Basics (pdf)
Console API --- Firebug tutorial -- Firebug docs -- CommonJS spec
File API --- W3 spec -- Tutorial
Touch Gestures --- iOS Safari -- MDN
Canvas (2D) --- Cheatsheet -- WHATWG spec (dense but thorough!)
WebGL (3D) --- Cheatsheet -- Shader Tutorial -- js binding for OpenGL ES 2.0
WebCL --- Khronos work in progress -- js binding for OpenCL
Typed Array API --- Khronos spec -- dependency of WebGL/CL

Popular extensions

jQuery --- 1.6 cheatsheet (html, pdf, png) -- 1.6 cheatsheet (pdf) -- Plugin authoring
RequireJS
CSS preprocessors: Stylus -- LESS -- SASS-SCSS
CoffeeScript

Template languages & shorthand notations

Checkers / Linters

JSlint --- CLI --- Browser
JShint --- CLI --- Browser
CSS lint --- CLI --- Browser

Low-level stuff -- OS, compiler, assembly, CPU, GPU...

My 80x86 Opcode Summary
OpenGL --- NeHe: news+tutorials -- Zack Rusin's blog -- Khronos site
OpenCL --- Wikipedia -- Khronos site

Utilities & miscellaneous

Git --- GitHub Help
MongoDB --- My cheatsheet (abandoned)