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We use Google Spreadsheets as a de facto CMS for most of our apps team projects. Examples:

http://apps.npr.org/best-books-2013/
http://www.lobbyingmissouri.org/

We store both the data and the text (copy) for the apps in those spreadsheets. Whenever we deploy we curl those spreadsheets, pull the data out of them and plug it into the app. This allows us the flexibility of collaboratively aggregating and editing application content with our reporters, without them needing to be able to run the app.

The Achilles hill of this process is that it currently requires us to manually go to File -> Publish to Web -> Republish now, in order for the latest data to be downloaded. This is very inconvenient when we are iterating quickly. I understand we could work around this by auth'ing to the API, but that's a) unnecessarily complicated and b) requires we deal with storing all those credentials or having a shared user account.

Two solutions spring to mind:

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// Never relayout the grid more than twice a second
var relayout = _.throttle(function() {
    $books_grid.isotope('reLayout');
}, 500);


/*
 * Begin unveiling visible books in the grid.
 */
var unveil_grid = function() {

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var BITMAPS = {
    BIRD_OF_PREY: [
        [0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0],
        [0,0,1,1,1,1,1,1,0],
        [0,1,0,1,0,0,0,0,0],
        [0,1,1,1,0,0,0,0,0],
        [0,1,0,0,1,0,0,0,0],
        [0,1,0,0,0,1,1,1,0],
        [0,1,0,0,0,1,1,1,0],
        [0,1,0,0,0,1,1,0,0],

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function render_glyphs(glyph_set) {
    /*
     * Render the SVG ornament glyphs.
     */
    for (var i = 0; i < glyph_rects.length; i++) {
        glyph_rects[i].remove();
    }

    glyph_rects = [];

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svg = request.form.get('image', None)
svg = re.sub('(height|width)=\"[0-9]+\"', '', svg, 2)

# Fix for duplicate namespaces in IE...
if svg.count('xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"') > 1:
    svg = svg.replace('xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"', '', 1)

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var $hidden_input = $('input[name="svg_body"]');
var $svg_root = $('svg#preview');

var svg = $svg_root.html();
$hidden_input.val(svg); 

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    <!-- GOOGLE ANALYTICS -->
    <script type="text/javascript">
        var _gaq = _gaq || [];
        var pluginUrl = '//www.google-analytics.com/plugins/ga/inpage_linkid.js';
        _gaq.push(['_require', 'inpage_linkid', pluginUrl]);
        _gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-5828686-4']);
        _gaq.push(['_setDomainName', 'npr.org']);
        _gaq.push(['_trackPageview']);
        (function() {
            var ga = document.createElement('script'); ga.type = 'text/javascript'; ga.async = true;

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#!/usr/bin/env python
 
class SevenObject(object):
    def __add__(self, other):
        return 7 + other
        
    def __sub__(self, other):
        return 7 - other

seven = SevenObject()

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#!/usr/bin/env python

class AnObjectThatCanBeCalled(object):
    def __call__(self):
	print 'Called an object'
		
def AFunction():
    print 'Called an actual function'

obj = AnObjectThatCanBeCalled()