Let's assume you're not a hardcore hand-code it yourself type, but do need to dip your toe into the app-building world.

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When she threw one of her dinner parties, there were hand-made invitations, a dress code.

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With the pointer that he keeps attached to his hand, Ward can punch in a security code and the automatic door swings open.

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The other is to force the banks' hand, for instance, by changing the bankruptcy code to allow judges to restructure mortgages in the same way as other loans.

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On the other hand, there is a clause in the International Sporting Code against interfering with the competition.

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Google, on the other hand, as Mr. Rizzo implies, just slaps some code together and sees if people like it.

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But when shareholders don't have the documents in hand, they seem to have a hard time walking the form and its special code to the computer, despite an envelope that was redesigned last year to add a large "vote" logo.

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On the other hand you have the Idrians, a warlike society of ancient creatures strictly bound to a deep militaristic code of ethics.

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Much in the way the phone system migrated from operators hand-switching every call to users dialing directly, Intentional Software could let a marketing executive create the code needed for a product campaign with just minimal mediation from a programmer.

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On the other hand, a small group of Samsung engineers has been working on medical applications of eye tracking, using open source code from Eyecan and the Not Impossible Foundation.

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