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Here are a list of headless browsers that I know about:

[HtmlUnit][1] - Java. Custom browser engine. JavaScript support/DOM emulated. Open source.
[Ghost][2] - Python only. WebKit-based. Full JavaScript support. Open source.
[Twill][3] - Python/command line. Custom browser engine. No JavaScript. Open source.
[PhantomJS][4] - Command line/all platforms. WebKit-based. Full JavaScript support. Open source.
[Awesomium][5] - C++/.Net/all platforms. Chromium-based. Full JavaScript support. Commercial/free.
[SimpleBrowser][6] - .Net 4/C#. Custom browser engine. No JavaScript support. Open source.
[ZombieJS][7] - Node.js. Custom browser engine. JavaScript support/emulated DOM. Open source.
[EnvJS][8] - JavaScript via Java/Rhino. Custom browser engine. JavaScript support/emulated DOM. Open source.

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We will compare ASP.NET and Node.js for backend programming.
Source codes from examples.

This document was published on 21.09.2015 for a freelance employer. Some changes since then (14.02.2016):

Koa.js no longer uses co-routines, it has switched to Babel's async/await. yield and await are used almost in the same way, so I see no point to rewrite the examples.

	# Modify /etc/yum.repos.d/epel.repo. Under the section marked [epel], change enabled=0 to enabled=1.

	sudo yum install erlang --enablerepo=epel

	wget http://www.rabbitmq.com/releases/rabbitmq-server/v3.1.1/rabbitmq-server-3.1.1-1.noarch.rpm

	sudo rpm -Uvh rabbitmq-server-3.1.1-1.noarch.rpm

	# Enable managament plugin
	sudo rabbitmq-plugins enable rabbitmq_management

	# There was a day where I have too many color schemes in iTerm2 and I want to remove them all.
	# iTerm2 doesn't have "bulk remove" and it was literally painful to delete them one-by-one.

	# iTerm2 save it's preference in ~/Library/Preferences/com.googlecode.iterm2.plist in a binary format
	# What you need to do is basically copy that somewhere, convert to xml and remove color schemes in the xml files.

	$ cd /tmp/
	$ cp ~/Library/Preferences/com.googlecode.iterm2.plist .
	$ plutil -convert xml1 com.googlecode.iterm2.plist
	$ vi com.googlecode.iterm2.plist

	#powershell script port of https://github.com/maxhauser/semver/
	function toSemVer($version){
	$version -match "^(?<major>\d+)(\.(?<minor>\d+))?(\.(?<patch>\d+))?(\-(?<pre>[0-9A-Za-z\-\.]+))?(\+(?<build>[0-9A-Za-z\-\.]+))?$" \| Out-Null
	$major = [int]$matches['major']
	$minor = [int]$matches['minor']
	$patch = [int]$matches['patch']

	if($matches['pre'] -eq $null){$pre = @()}
	else{$pre = $matches['pre'].Split(".")}