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]]> By: Jeff http://spsullivanmedia.com/graphics/not-just-sparklers/comment-page-1/#comment-24 Jeff Wed, 08 Jul 2009 09:11:12 +0000 http://spsullivanmedia.com/?p=178#comment-24 This is one of my favorite tricks. It essentially makes Google Spreadsheets into the roughest content manager system ever. What's going on here: information is entered into the spreadsheet, the speadsheet is then published automatically as a .json file, which is interpreted by javascript and overlaid on a map all on page load. There are other, better ways to do this, but they require php and interpreted languages interacting with the Google API, and those methods aren't available on the MassLive servers (which are tuned for heavy load and raw HTML serving more than nimble execution of dynamic languages). So hideously convoluted javascript it is. This is one of my favorite tricks. It essentially makes Google Spreadsheets into the roughest content manager system ever.

What’s going on here: information is entered into the spreadsheet, the speadsheet is then published automatically as a .json file, which is interpreted by javascript and overlaid on a map all on page load. There are other, better ways to do this, but they require php and interpreted languages interacting with the Google API, and those methods aren’t available on the MassLive servers (which are tuned for heavy load and raw HTML serving more than nimble execution of dynamic languages).

So hideously convoluted javascript it is.

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