Origin of Old Familiar Phrases

This on comes from the 'Hey that's interesting' bucket.

The site Neatorama has a post entitled 'Origin of Familiar Phrases.' The post covers phrases like: 'stump someone', 'put on your thinking cap' and 'slush fund'.

Cheat Sheets for Programmers

Here are some cheat sheets that I found useful this week.

AJAX

• Microsoft AJAX Cheat Sheet

MISC

• Quick Reference Cards (Covers multiple topics: Programming, Databases, Administration, Editors, and more)
• Progamming Handbooks and Cheatsheets (Covers multiple technologies)
• .NET Cheat Sheets (Covers multiple topics: Formatting Strings, ASP.NET 2.0, Visual Studio 2005 Built-in Code Snippets, and links to other cheat sheets)
• Developer Cheat Sheet Compilation (Covers multiple topics: Database, Programming Languages, OS, and more)
  

SUBVERSION

• Subversion Cheat Sheet (Open-Source source control)

GOOGLE

• Google Cheat Sheet (List of all Google services and tools)

CSS

• CSS Cheat Sheet

Regular Expressions

• Regular Expression Cheat Sheet (.NET)