It was fairly quiet yesterday, so nothing big to report. So, leading today we have an interesting post at On Software Efficiency which talks about measuring programmer competency. James K Nelson has an excellent introduction to using React.js for simple forms. Nish Tahir shows us how to use cosine similarity for fuzzy string matching.

As always, enjoy today’s items, and please participate in the discussions on these sites.

Startups, Career and Process

• Self-organizing, self-directing, self-managing and authority | Allan Kelly
• Measuring programmer competency | On Software Efficiency

Design and Development

• Default Scopes are an Anti-Pattern | The Buckblog
• Say What You Mean | nklein software
• Are You Thinking Clearly About Your Architectural Choices? | DZone Integration
• Learn React.js: Ridiculously Simple Forms | James K Nelson
• React.js and Spring Data REST: Part 2 | DZone Integration

AI, Machine Learning, Research and Advanced Algorithms

• Of Levenshtein Automata implementations | Paul Masurel
• Fuzzy string matching using cosine similarity | Nish Tahir

Big Data, Visualization, SQL and NoSQL

• Storytelling With Data: Visualize Simply And Focus Obsessively | Occam’s Razor
• How does the MySQL JDBC driver handle prepared statements | Vlad Mihalcea

Enterprise and Web Content Management

• Building a better WordPress | Chris Hutchinson

Infrastructure, Operations and DevOps

• How Cloud Monkey Deploys Itself | Cloud Monkey

Security, Encryption and Cryptography

• The Tricky Encryption That Could Stump Quantum Computers | Wired
• Stagefrightened? | Project Zero
• Auth to See the Wizard | hueniverse
• [CSP] On Reporting and Filtering | Dropbox

Link Collections

• Data Science Roundup #2: Quantifying Style, the Quantified Self, and a Visualized Intro to ML | The Data Point
• Issue 125 for September 21, 2015 | Weekly Programming Digest
• The Daily Six Pack: September 21, 2015 | Dirk Strauss
• Dew Drop – September 21, 2015 (#2094) | Morning Dew
• Double Shot #1555 | A Fresh Cup