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Missed one? In case we missed you yesterday, our newsletter archives and Acronym of the Day are updated each week for new BDPA chapter interest groups (CIGs) and new BDPA members up to the last 100 online editions. Discover more...
Reform Bill Could Kill Contractors' Acquisition Expertise
WASHINGTON--Washington Technology (WT) reports major defense companies are planning to sell some of their subsidiaries so they don't contravene the new acquisition reform legislation passed by Congress that bars contractors from owning companies that advise the government on acquisitions, reports the online defense and acquisition journal DoD BUZZ. The article cites as "the most glaring example" Northrop Grumman Corporation's pending sale of TASC, as reported last month in Washington Technology. The Northrop subsidiary provides the military and the intelligence community (IC) with technical advice on acquisitions and operations. The Weapons Systems Acquisition Reform Act was drafted by Senators Carl Levin (D-Michigan) and John McCain (R-Arizona), the chairman and ranking member of the Senate Armed Services Committee. Learn more...
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ARAX
ARAX (Asynchronous Ruby and XML) is a development tool created for Silverlight, Microsoft's competitor for Adobe Flash and similar Web technologies. ARAX allows developers who prefer the open source, object-oriented Ruby programming language to create interactive applications similar to those created in Ajax (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) but without requiring JavaScript.
Here's how John Lam, creator of Microsoft's IronRuby project, explains the purpose of ARAX:
If you are a Ruby programmer and you like Ruby as a language, context-switching into JavaScript is just something you have to do. It's a tax. You're trading productivity away arbitrarily because that's just what runs in the browser. And it's much more interesting when you can run the same language on both sides [the client and the server] so you don't have to do that context switch.
ARAX enables Silverlight developers using Ruby to bypass the Ruby JavaScript (RJS) utility when building applications in the Ruby on Rails framework. Bypassing RJS eliminates the need to translate Ruby code into JavaScript so that an application can run in a Web browser.
ARAX was introduced in May 2008 at RailsConf, a conference for Ruby on Rails developers. APAX, a similar language that replaces Ajax's JavaScript with Python, was introduced at the same conference.
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