Your Refcardz WishList: What Cards Would You Like To Appear in the Series?
As you know by now, we're celebrating the launch of our 100th Refcard at DZone this week. Today I have a simple question for you: are there any Refcardz that you would like to see in the series? If you've ever thought "there should be a Refcard for that", here is a chance for you to get that on the list for the future.
One card that I'd really like to see is a UML Refcard: UML translates nicely into the refcard format, and it would be a great addition to the Design Patterns refcard.Here's my own wishlist:
- ObjectiveC
- Publishing An iPhone App
- Getting Started With Android
- Basic Javascript
Most of the above are related to work I'm doing right now. I'm sure there's more that I'd like to see, but that would be my top 4 at the moment.
Now, over to you, what refcardz would you like to see appear in the series.






Comments
Alois Cochard replied on Wed, 2010/05/26 - 6:07am
Mitch Pronschinske replied on Wed, 2010/05/26 - 7:14am
Here's a couple I'd like to see off the top of my head:
Pavel Rudensky replied on Wed, 2010/05/26 - 10:29am
Michele Mauro replied on Wed, 2010/05/26 - 10:31am
Scala (but wait for 2.8 to stabilize)
CouchDB (another great idea)
Clojure (I'm with Cochard)
Tellurium (Extension to the Selenium Testing Framework)
The ones on SOA and Agile where very good, too.
Rainer Hilmer replied on Wed, 2010/05/26 - 10:34am
Francisco Benavides replied on Wed, 2010/05/26 - 10:35am
These are the refcardz I would like to see:
- Django Eclipse setup for rapid development
- Django Cherokee setup for developement and productiion
- Django AJAX guide
- Django Google AppEngine setup
- Django Google AppEngine BigTable setup
- Django HTML 5 guide
Hamish Lawson replied on Wed, 2010/05/26 - 11:23am
Update for Groovy
Update for Grails (if relevant changes)
Python 3
Fabio Serragnoli replied on Wed, 2010/05/26 - 11:39am
Jonathan Fisher replied on Wed, 2010/05/26 - 11:54am
- Spring Security Annotations
- Dependency Injection with EJB3 Part 2 (more advanced)
- JEE Security (JSR250) Part 2 (more advanced)
And please no more "Geting started with XXXXXX Obscure technology" refcards. They're low on content and rather useless. Some of the best refcards you have are the "Core CSS" series and the "Design Patterns" which are very content heavy. If these refcards are supposed to be references, they should really have a thorough explanation and listing of the options and capabilities of each annotation or framework piece.Jonathan Fisher replied on Wed, 2010/05/26 - 11:55am
in response to:
Mitch Pronschinske
Manuel Jordan replied on Wed, 2010/05/26 - 12:48pm
Hello James
I have seen this link http://refcardz.dzone.com/home, I see that the card list is based in pagination, can DZone include a link to able us download the complete 100 cards list within a PDF file? and a textfield for card search?, perhaps include a list based by categories, like Frameworks, Web, Web Services, Databases etc to help us do a fast search query
I would be happy see cards about:
Thanks a lot for your effort for each author and for DZone for offer this excellent community!
James Sugrue replied on Wed, 2010/05/26 - 2:15pm
in response to:
Manuel Jordan
Great suggestions for topics and for functionality. And don't forget that our iPhone & iPad apps for Refcardz will be on the way soon.
James
Ashish Jain replied on Wed, 2010/05/26 - 3:26pm
Mitch Pronschinske replied on Wed, 2010/05/26 - 3:54pm
Bill Fly replied on Wed, 2010/05/26 - 4:27pm
Click
AribaWeb
Sébastien Dubois replied on Wed, 2010/05/26 - 11:36pm
- Grails + AppEngine
- Grails + RESTful Web services
- Regex
Thanks for the series! :)Manuel Jordan replied on Thu, 2010/05/27 - 8:00am
in response to:
James Sugrue
Thanks James, I have other request not related with cards, I suggest to DZone create a Zone about the video interviews and conferences.
-Manuel
Jim Bethancourt replied on Fri, 2010/05/28 - 12:26pm
Barry Teel replied on Tue, 2010/06/01 - 7:44pm
in response to:
Ashish Jain
Ashish,
RefCard #82 'Getting Started with Cloud Computing' might satisfy your 1st request.
http://refcardz.dzone.com/refcardz/getting-started-cloud
Barry Teel replied on Tue, 2010/06/01 - 7:48pm
Vinay Chandra replied on Wed, 2010/06/02 - 12:31am
David Ahern replied on Tue, 2010/06/08 - 8:23am
Terracotta/EhCache
Socket level programming best practices
GC optimisation, Memory Management best practices
Classloaders, OSGi frameworks, Spring dm, etc...
AJAX inc. various frameworks DWR, etc
Android Dev
would be my votes
David
Nicholas Wright replied on Thu, 2010/06/24 - 9:47am
Kingsly Theodar replied on Wed, 2010/08/11 - 3:51pm
Steve Amerige replied on Fri, 2010/08/20 - 6:43am
My votes:
- CSS3 (including browser compatibility info and what can be used today across the top browsers)
- HTML5 (including browser compatibility info and what can be used today across the top browsers)
- Web Accessibility (WAI, etc., focusing on the indicating the most useful constructs)
- Top Eclipse Plugins (showcase the highest-value and, hopefully free, plugins)
- JavaScript Framework Matrix (comparing the top JavaScript frameworks--WOW, would that be useful)
See the pattern above? It's great to have Refcardz information; but, it is even more helpful to be told where the highest value exists for any Refcardz topic. That's often the challenge... knowing what is really useful.What Spedia replied on Sun, 2010/09/26 - 4:56pm
Rio Malaschitz replied on Tue, 2011/01/18 - 11:10am
Aaron Kaka replied on Thu, 2011/05/26 - 12:03pm