"I love you so much I could eat you up," a mother might say to her child. Chances are, the mother will be met with a confused and possibly concerned look. What does she actually mean? To grasp this, ...

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. Here are the most important concepts developers must know when they size Java arrays and deal ...

Grammar nerds everywhere have long lamented the widespread misuse of the word "literally." As anyone who paid attention in grade school knows, "literally" means "in a literal or strict sense, as ...

A warrior is in a prison cell. His guard approaches and shows him the wooden sword that he will receive once he has earned his freedom. The warrior grabs it, uses his unlocked cell door to knock the ...

Have you ever wondered how to open a JSON file? Probably not. However, for those who do, chances are you’ve tried everything under the sun but still cannot find a way to gain access to the data inside ...

The origin of the terms uppercase and lowercase might seem pretty self-explanatory. Upper and lower must be references to the height of the letters, and the use of case is presumably an offshoot of ...

Few words so rile language purists as the use of the adverb “literally” in a figurative sense, as in, “That movie literally blew my mind”. But as a linguist who studies how English has changed over ...

Using ‘Literally’ Metaphorically? That’s Literally Nothing to Get Worked Up Over. English language purists object to using the adverb to mean its opposite, but many other words have made a similar ...

As a former realtor, general contractor and greenhouse operator, Kristi has touched nearly all aspects of homeownership, from the foundation up. Today, Kristi is a full-time investing and real estate ...

Colloquial language does not entirely match up with formal language. This means that some colloquial phrases can mean something entirely different from their formal meaning. Take the following couple ...

With this update, string literals in files without a frozen_string_literal comment now behave as if they were frozen. If mutated, a deprecation warning is emitted. The change marks a first step toward ...

If you get the You can’t change part of an array error in Microsoft Excel, this post will help you fix the error. An array is essentially a collection of items ...