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APEX 5 Cheat Sheet

On Twitter today, Jeff Smith tweeted about a new SQL Developer cheat sheet that he created with a site called cheatography.com.
Not to be outdone, I created a cheat sheet for the APEX 5 Keyboard Shortcuts. Not only can you view it online, but you can also download a PDF version of it. Check it out and let me know if there's anything that you'd like to see added.

Comments

Byte64 said…
Hi Scott,
it's interesting, even if I must say I can't remember having used those keystrokes once in my life.
But the cheat sheet application may come in handy also in other situations.

Thanks for posting
Flavio
Byte64 said…
By the way, the link to cheatography.com, the site, not the cheat sheet, doesn't work, it lacks the "http://" stuff...
Scott said…
Link should work, but it seems that the site may be down.
Unknown said…
Flavio is right, that link does not work - it refers to http://spendolini.blogspot.nl/2015/11/cheatography.com (and that doesn't exists).
Scott said…
Fixed now; was looking at the 2nd link; Blogger made the first one up and did it wrong.

- Scott -

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