Helpful tips for random problems
There is a nefarious error on nginx that in rare cases can throw an ERR_SPDY_PROTOCOL_ERROR for the users of Chrome. TLDR: Check your nginx add_headers directives for invalid characters within any HTTP2 server configurations. I call this out as attempting to troubleshoot it online can lead you down a rabbit hole of old and misinformation.… Continue reading Fix ERR_SPDY_PROTOCOL_ERROR nginx error on Chrome
Turns out when using HTTP2 in Firefox, Internet Explorer and Edge you should not have any newline characters in your HTTP response headers.
Using JavaScript to apply CSS to Internet Explorer/Edge returns 'Assignment to read-only properties is not allowed in strict mode' I encountered a silly mistake on my behalf the other day when programming some JavaScript DOM. This simple JS code to apply a style to an HTML element works fine in Chrome and Firefox. But breaks in Microsoft's… Continue reading Assignment to read-only properties is not allowed in strict mode
I recently ran into a problem whereby I was trying to run a 64-bit Java application and yet I only had a 32-bit edition of Java installed on my 64-bit Windows computer. To obtain a 64-bit copy of Java I needed visit the Java download page using a 64-bit browser. On visiting with a standard… Continue reading How to install 64-bit Java on 64-bit Windows and solve an annoying Eclipse 5.6 error
