How to automatically launch work contexts ...?

Hi there,
How to automatically launch work contexts ...?
By the term context, I mean:
- when I'm working on website design, I always need to have Coda application on the right, a browser on the left.
- when I'm developing with XCode, I need XCode on the right and iPad simulator on the upper left and at the bottom left, I have the documentation
etc
I'd like to be able to by one click to launch all of that correctly placed on the screen etc etc
Anyone?
Julien

I'm a developer but on mac since september and didn't go into applescript
http://www.ithug.com/2007/09/applescript-moving-and-resizing-windows is the concept I looked for

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