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Alas Heroku, you could have served us well here...
Instead I had to build my own ugly browser ide/code publisher to post code to an App Engine data store and make a class/controller to render it back as XML or HTML.
Since I am doing Opensocial development on GFC and Google Sites, my code is loaded from a published url by those containers (after the cache expires, that is). This means, when I am on the road and I have a thought, I can pull out my web-enabled phone and publish some small change to my code and its live.
This tool I am describing allows me to develop Javascript client code easily enough, but I could see adding a module to my ide app that would load up dynamic python too (using exec). This would allow me to "edit" backend code. It would probably be good enough.
Anyway, couple this functionality with PhoneGap and I think you might have a workable solution... for the Android platform anyway.
This will work even better once Android reliably supports bluetooth keyboards. Typing on those small buttons really wears out my thumbs. :)
EDIT: I have also thought of setting up a deploy server for the backend piece. I could edit my backend code in the web ide, click a Save button and have it kick off a deploy command on the remote server. The process would pull down the code I scratched out in the browser-ide, save to SVN, then run the app engine deployment.
You know, I thought this was what Heroku was going to do for me. But, they stripped out the web ide which was the part that I really needed.
That's an extremely high bar, no?