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In this Currents newsletter, Bill Gates reflects on Microsoft's history and explores the Past, Present & Future of Application Development and Building. Plus, learn more about Building and Maintaining a Database from an ER Model. Be sure to check out this month's featured products and specials for more great deals from Programmer's Paradise!

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2 Bill Gates Explores Past, Present & Future of Application Development—at Tech•Ed North America 2008 Developers Conference
Microsoft Corp. Chairman Bill Gates reflected on the company’s 33-year history with developers and shared his predictions for the future in front of more than 5,000 developers at Microsoft’s Tech•Ed North America 2008 Developers conference. Joined onstage by other Microsoft executives and technology luminaries including S. Somasegar, David Campbell and Brian Harry, Gates demonstrated how Microsoft is making it easier for developers to tackle complex tasks such as creating compelling user experiences, building data-driven applications, managing large enterprise projects and capitalizing on emerging trends including cloud computing, modeling and natural language programming.
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2 Building and Maintaining a Database from an ER Model
Designing and building a database begins by building a high quality data model. Without having the guidance of a data model, database design tends to be very inefficient. Often, developers who build databases without using a data model find themselves constantly revisiting the database, changing its design over and over again as the application is written. This slows down the developer, and will result in a database that can only support that specific version of the application, with very little flexibility and an unnecessarily high potential for data corruption.
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