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Thanks, that's good to know. The generation of spritefonts often is not explcitly mentioned in the licenses, so I must still be a little careful.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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CDP1802 wrote: so I must still be a little careful
Do not! Ask them!
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Oh, they're quite nice about it.
You only have to fill out a form, giving your real name, home address, all your e-mail addresses, credit-card number, mother's maiden name, shopping preferences, browsing history for the last five years, etc.
I mean, they have to make sure they haven't got any gaps in your info, before letting you use a font.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Mark_Wallace wrote: your real name, home address, all your e-mail addresses, credit-card number, mother's maiden name, shopping preferences, browsing history for the last five years, etc
As if they did not know already about all these...
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Oh they know.
It's just to check if you are an honest person.
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Is a toiler played alone ? (9)
We can’t stop here, this is bat country - Hunter S Thompson RIP
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Solitaire - anagram of is a toiler, and also played alone.
Good clue - nice double use of played.
Andy B
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You are up tomorrow - well done
We can’t stop here, this is bat country - Hunter S Thompson RIP
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solitaire (anag.)
You have just been Sharapova'd.
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Yes but you were just pipped at the post 
We can’t stop here, this is bat country - Hunter S Thompson RIP
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No connection to the comic Griff linked just below, so I'll keep quiet!
[edit] Two others posted it while I was typing. 
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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Ha !!! I didn't see that
We can’t stop here, this is bat country - Hunter S Thompson RIP
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It's NEVER a good time for a tax hike! 
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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But you may not notice it if Maccabi Tel Aviv wins the Euroleague
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Last week one of our customers was trying to update some data through a web API.
Unfortunately, the data was not inserted through the API and as such was missing some data necessary for everything to work.
I spoke to her on the phone and explicitly said "if you send me the user names and codes (that they have) I can fix everything and stuff will work from then on."
She told me she could send more data, but I insisted, I only need the user names and codes.
She just send me an Excel sheet with 43 fields, but the code field is not included...
I can't help but think they do this stuff on purpose... 
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Hanlon's Razor: Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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You should create a portal | web page | tool for them to fix their own issues. You should not be in the business of fixing "one-offs" for the end user.
That is the only correct solution here.
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Slacker007 wrote: fix their own issues
And then spend the next three months trying to work out WTE they did to "fix" the issue that's now caused even worse problems in a seemingly unrelated part of the system.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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We have not encountered that problem ever. We have a real world working implementation strategy based on the advice I gave and it has been working fine for over 5 years.
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You obviously have a better class of users. 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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No. We write the software that only lets the user do what the user needs to do, within our (software services) control.
If the user needs to correct records in a database, then we provide the GUI|toolset for them to do "just" that. When we (the software engineer) do this correctly, then all is fine with the world. We (the software engineer) do not correct the record(s) for them, which I think is what Sander was mentioning, more or less.
In summary, it has nothing to do with the users.
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That's great - if the users know what the "correct" values should be.
And if they can remember what you've previously told them from one week to the next.
Giving them a tool to make very specific corrections might work, so long as it walks them through, holds their hand, and has a metric crapton of sanity checks.
Giving them unconstrained access to modify the database to "fix" their own problems? That never ends well.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Richard Deeming wrote: Giving them unconstrained access to modify the database to "fix" their own problems? That never ends well. 
I did not say this.
Richard Deeming wrote: Giving them a tool to make very specific corrections might work, so long as it walks them through, holds their hand, and has a metric crapton of sanity checks.
And if you, as as software engineer, cannot/will not do this, then I would have to fire you from my team. Just saying... It is actually not as bad as you make it out to be. As I said, our shop has been doing this for our users for over 5 years now with great results.
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Slacker007 wrote: And if you, as as software engineer, cannot/will not do this, ...
I never said I couldn't/wouldn't.
But unless it's a regular occurrence, it's often quicker to fix the data manually than to write, test, and deploy a tool to let the user do it.
(Obligatory XKCD[^])
And surely it would be better to spend your time finding and fixing the root cause of the problem, rather than giving the users a box of band-aids?
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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