50 Web Developer Documentation Manuals You Need To Know About

This is a list of over 50+ Documentation Manuals and Guides for Programmers, Web Developers, and Web Designers. I will actively update this list with more Manuals as I come across them. If you would like something added, please leave it in the comments section below. Over time it will become more refined and better organized and in return, more useful so please bookmark and share with your friends.

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Back-end Manuals

PHP Documentation – http://www.php.net/manual/en/

Python Documentation – http://www.python.org/doc/

Ruby Language Documentation – http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/documentation/

Ruby on Rails Documentation – http://rubyonrails.org/documentation

C# Programming Guide – http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/67ef8sbd(v=vs.80).aspx

Node.js Documentation – http://nodejs.org/docs/latest/

Front-end Manuals

CSS Reference – https://developer.mozilla.org/en/CSS/CSS_Reference

HTML Reference – https://developer.mozilla.org/en/HTML

HTML5 Reference – https://developer.mozilla.org/en/HTML/HTML5

Schema Reference – http://schema.org/

Javascript Guide – https://developer.mozilla.org/en/JavaScript/Guide

jQuery – http://docs.jquery.com/Main_Page

IMPROVED jQuery Documentation- http://jqapi.com/

LESS (CSS Preprocessor) – http://lesscss.org/

SASS (CSS Preprocessor) Documentation – http://sass-lang.com/docs.html

PHP Frameworks

Laravel Framework Documentation – http://laravel.com/docs

YII Framework Documentation – http://www.yiiframework.com/doc/

CodeIgniter Framework User Guide – http://codeigniter.com/user_guide/

Zend Framework Documentation – http://framework.zend.com/docs/overview

CakePHP Framework 2.0 Documentation – http://book.cakephp.org/2.0/en/

Symfony Framework Documentation – http://www.symfony-project.org/doc/

WordPress Documentation – http://codex.wordpress.org/

Databases

MySQL Documentation Manuals – http://dev.mysql.com/doc/index.html

MariaDB – http://kb.askmonty.org/en/mariadb

PostgreSQL – http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.1/

MongoDB Manual – http://www.mongodb.org/display/DOCS/Manual

CouchDB – http://couchdb.apache.org/docs/index.html

Oracle Documentation – http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/indexes/documentation/index.html

SQLite Documentation – http://www.sqlite.org/docs.html

Caching

Redis Documentation – http://redis.io/documentation

Memcache Wiki – http://code.google.com/p/memcached/wiki/NewStart

APC (Alternative PHP Cache) – http://php.net/manual/en/book.apc.php

Varnish Cache – https://www.varnish-cache.org/docs

Squid Cache – http://www.squid-cache.org/Doc/

Server

Apache HTTP Server Documentation – http://httpd.apache.org/docs/

Nginx HTTP Server Documentation – http://nginx.org/en/docs/

Lighttpd HTTP Server Documentation – http://redmine.lighttpd.net/projects/lighttpd/wiki

Software

AutoHotKey Documentation – http://www.autohotkey.com/docs/

SublimeText Documentation – http://sublimetext.info/docs/en/

TextMate Documentation – http://manual.macromates.com/en/

Adobe Photoshop Documentation – http://www.adobe.com/support/documentation/en/photoshop/

Web API’s

Facebook API/Graph Documentation – http://developers.facebook.com/docs/

Twitter API Documentation – https://dev.twitter.com/docs

Google+ API Docs – https://developers.google.com/+/api/

GitHub API Documentation – http://develop.github.com/

Foursquare API Docs – https://developer.foursquare.com/docs/

linkedin API Docs – https://developer.linkedin.com/

Other Resources

DocHub | Instant Documentation Search for CSS, HTML, Javascript, jQuery, PHP, Python, and DOM – http://dochub.io

Phing Build Scripts User Guide (PHP) – http://www.phing.info/docs/guide/stable/

MediaWiki (Wikipedia) Formatting Guide – http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Formatting

MarkDown Syntax Guide – http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/syntax

Smarty Templates Documentation – http://www.smarty.net/documentation

Helpful Q&A Resources

Programming Code Q&A – http://stackoverflow.com/
Programmers Q&A (Usually non-code specific questions) – http://webmasters.stackexchange.com/
Code Review Q&A – http://codereview.stackexchange.com/
Database Admin Q&A – http://dba.stackexchange.com/
Computer Q&A – http://superuser.com/
Server Q&A – http://serverfault.com/
Unix & Linux Q&A – http://unix.stackexchange.com/
Wordpress Q&A – http://wordpress.stackexchange.com/
Webmasters Q&A – http://webmasters.stackexchange.com/
Graphic Design Q&A – http://graphicdesign.stackexchange.com/