inter-process-communicat

What's the best way to notify a non-web application about a change on a web page?

Let's say I have two applications which have to work together to a certain extent. A web application (PHP, Ruby on Rails, ...) A desktop application (Java, C++, ...) The desktop application has to be notified from the web application and the delay between sending and receiving the notification must be short. (< 10 seconds) What are ...

LD_PRELOAD equivalent for Windows ?

The title says it all... Cheers David ...

OS-independent Inter-program communication between Python and C

I have very little idea what I'm doing here, I've never done anything like this before, but a friend and I are writing competing chess programs and they need to be able to communicate to each other. He'll be writing mainly in C, the bulk of mine will be in Python, and I can see a few options: Alternately write to a temp file, or succe...