The Quick Reference Guide

• HTML5 Canvas: A Web Standard for Dynamic Graphics
  

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• Groovy

  Programming Groovy is easy to start with. This reference of best practices and idiomatic solutions smoothly guides you to the next step of achieving more expressive solutions that fully leverage the power of the language. Simply looking up proven solutions for everyday tasks goes beyond general IDE support.

  Suggested solutions range from working with standard data types like objects, strings, numbers, collections, ranges, and maps, through dealing with regular expressions, operators, closures, and meta-programming facilities up to library support for threading, external processes, I/0, networking, user interfaces, XML, and databases.

  

• Getting Started with Apache Wicket

  Among the dizzying number of Web frameworks available today, Wicket’s simple and intuitive approach to Web development has led it to become a favorite among many Java developers.  This Refcard brings you quickly up to speed on some of the key features of Apache Wicket 1.3, showing you how to configure the framework, define your domain model, create standard Wicket components and add internationalization options.

  

• Vaadin: A Familiar Way to Build Web Apps with Java

  This DZone Refcard provides an introduction to Vaadin. Vaadin is a server-side Ajax web application development framework that allows you to build web applications just as you would with traditional desktop frameworks, such as AWT or Swing.

  

• IntelliJ IDEA: Updated for 8.1

  In this Refcard, updated for IntelliJ IDEA 8.1, Hamlet D’Arcy helps you navigate the various facets of the IDE, including the Editor, Project, and Structure panes.  With a rich collection of editing shortcuts, debugging tips and techniques for writing less code, IntelliJ newbies and IDEA-savvy developers will both benefit with this cheat sheet by their side.

  If you are still using IntelliJ IDEA 6.0, don’t worry, our original IntelliJ IDEA Refcard is exactly what you need.

  

• Windows PowerShell

  "This is a very good concept, and will be useful to people new to PowerShell." –Marco Shaw, MVP – Windows Server – Admin Frameworks

  Windows PowerShell is a modern object-based command shell and scripting language designed for Microsoft Windows. Along with the normal shell features for working with files and programs, it also provides for direct access to all of Windows though the Windows Object Models: .NET, COM and WMI.

  This refcard covers starting and using Windows PowerShell, including the syntax for all statements, operators and other elements of the language. Also included are examples of how to use .NET, COM, ADSI and WMI objects from PowerShell. Finally, it includes tips and tricks—short examples showing how to perform common tasks from PowerShell.

  

• jQuery Selectors

  jQuery selectors are one of the most important aspects of the jQuery library. These selectors use familiar CSS syntax to allow page authors to quickly and easily identify any set of page elements to operate upon with the jQuery library methods. Understanding jQuery selectors is the key to using the jQuery library most effectively. This reference card puts the power of jQuery selectors at your very fingertips.

  

• Getting Started with JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 5

  This DZone Refcard provides an in-depth introduction to JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 5. We take you all the way from installation to the deployment of your application.  A must have for both users starting out with Java EE as well as senior architects.

  

• Core Java

  This refcard gives you an overview of key aspects of the Java language and cheat sheets on the core library (formatted output, collections, regular expressions, logging, properties) as well as the most commonly used tools (javac, java, jar).

  Features include Java Keywords, Standard Java Packages, Character Escape Sequences, Collections and Common Algorithms, Regular Expressions, JAR Files and more.

  

• Design Patterns

  Design patterns provide a fundamental foundation to building maintainable and scalable software. Understanding how the patterns work, why they provide a benefit, and when to use them helps to ensure that software is built from reusable object oriented components. This Refcard provides a quick reference to the original 23 Gang of Four design patterns, as listed in the book Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software. Each pattern includes class diagrams, explanation, usage information, and a real world example.

  

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• Java Enterprise Edition 6: The Most Elegant Enterprise Java yet

   

  Enterprise software development is inherently complex.  Multi-user systems open the door to concerns such as transactional integrity, security, persistence integration, and interaction between components.  Simply put, the mission of the Java Enterprise Edition is to enable an out-of-the-box set of configurable services that allows the programmer to write less and focus on delivering clean business logic.  This week’s Refcard on Java EE 6 focuses on the very best parts of the public APIs with descriptions, code examples, and class names.

  

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