September 2005 Entries
Apparently, I seem to be the last one to see these BMW Advertisement-Shorts. These short films have been directed by some top notch directors and star Clive Owen. All in all, they serve as some nice adrenalin shots for those 3:00 PM bouts of drowsiness. Not to mention, a gentle reminder that I can't afford a beamer yet. :)...
So we developed a custom Socket Adapter for BizTalk Server 2004, and hooked up with a 3rd party demographics and charges vendor. As is often the case in such scenarios, their application took an intense dislike to our adapter. It wouldn't send Acks for some messages, then the next message would get back 42 Acks and so on and so forth. All in all not very savoury. So I went looking for a tool that would monitor my network interface, show me packets real-time, allow me to set up fancy filters, not...
I was going through my emails and I found one from July of 2004 that prompted me to this trip down memory lane. During that fateful month, I was under some serious pressure to get our Electronic Claims solution up and running. We were using BTS 2004 and the HIPAA Accelerator 3.0 which was in its relative infancy. After mucho dll trading with engineers from MS, I finally got our solution up and running. Needless to say, the powers that be, weren't impressed. After all, BTS isn't as sophisticated as...