Jamison White

Every weekend shuold be three day! Max and I listened to songs, bought a train book, bought MORE train tracks, and had a great lunch at chik-fil-a.

Eric sent me a funny video that reminded me it’s time to start practicing German again. My German is better after a few beers, so maybe Saturday’s a good day

I was playing with Twitterific while riding home from New Albany, Mississippi last weekend. There is a feature to search “near by” tweets. Any one who has made their location public shows up if they are within your radius.  Lessons learned, lots of people tweet in Pensacola, FL, not so many people tweeting in rural Mississippi. Even with only two people tweeting I was able to find reference to some local recreation.

The AppRiver dev team is studying for MSTCS 70-536. These are some observations and notes from those classes.

FileStream v/s StreamReader & StreamWriter

1. FS supports random access.
2. FS returns byte arrays.
3. SR/SW use strings.
4. If SR/SW is created with a file path instead of a stream, a FS is implicitly created.

When to use them

If you are working with textual information, use a StreamReader/Writer. Use the FileStream for binary data.

If you need to eek out the maximum performance, the FileStream, StreamReader, and StreamWriter all offer optimiztion parameters, but generally you will not need them.