Communications of the ACM
Practice Archive
The Practice archive provides access to all Practice articles published in past issues of Communications of the ACM.
September 2009
From Communications of the ACM
Reveling in Constraints
The Google Web Toolkit is an end-run around Web development obstacles.
From Communications of the ACM
Monitoring and Control of Large Systems With MonALISA
MonALISA developers describe how it works, the key design principles behind it, and the biggest technical challenges in building it.
From Communications of the ACM
Making Sense of Revision-Control Systems
All revision-control systems come with complicated sets of trade-offs. How do you find the best match between tool and team?