---
title: "More active desktop"
url: "https://osherove.com/blog/2003/7/20/more-active-desktop.md"
canonical: "https://osherove.com/blog/2003/7/20/more-active-desktop.html"
published: "2003-07-20T18:27:00"
updated: "2003-07-20T18:27:00"
tags: [".Net Quotations"]
author: "Roy Osherove"
description: "Doug Thews about his active desktop: \"I thought you might be interested in knowing I posted some cool feature updates at: http://www.ddconsult.com/blogs/illuminati/archives/000085.html \""
usage: "Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page)."
license: "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"
---

# More active desktop

By Roy Osherove July 20, 2003 In [.Net Quotations](https://osherove.com/blog/category/net-quotations)

**Historical article** · Originally published July 20, 2003; technical details may be outdated.

[Doug Thews](http://www.ddconsult.com/blogs/illuminati) about his active desktop:

"I thought you might be interested in knowing I posted some cool feature updates at: [http://www.ddconsult.com/blogs/illuminati/archives/000085.html](http://www.ddconsult.com/blogs/illuminati/archives/000085.html)"

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- Jul 22, 2003

    ### [Israel .NET Software Architects User Group Meeting - July 2003](https://osherove.com/blog/2003/7/22/israel-net-software-architects-user-group-meeting-july-2003.html)

- Jul 16, 2003

    ### [See you at the user group tonight (topic - CLR plumbing)](https://osherove.com/blog/2003/7/16/see-you-at-the-user-group-tonight-topic-clr-plumbing.html)

- Jul 16, 2003

    ### [We will not ship s#!\*t](https://osherove.com/blog/2003/7/16/we-will-not-ship-st.html)


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## About the author

**Roy Osherove**: Senior Solutions Architect at AWS working on AI for production and AI-driven development; author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership, with about 20 years of consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership and continuous delivery.

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