Measuring its collection of apps against the standards of the Open Web Application Security Project or OWASP, Veracode found that only 16% of government web applications were secure, compared with 24% of finance industry software and 28% of commercial software.

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Former Hearsay Social software engineer and Python programmer Kate Heddleston (and mentor at Hackbright Academy) talks about using Chef to create web application projects, specifically a Python project with a Django framework.

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In June Microsoft led a project in Tirupur to roll out an order-tracking application that knitters could access over the Web by text messaging.

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