Re: wiki updates

2011-10-06 Thread Eric Evans
On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 6:29 AM, aaron morton wrote: > With 1.0 almost here I was going to try and spruce up the wiki a bit to make > things a little more welcoming for new users. > > I've created a copy of the home page here > http://wiki.apache.org/cassandra/FrontPage_draft_aaron as a working d

Re: wiki updates

2011-10-06 Thread aaron morton
Ok, I'll go ahead and work out a way for people to contribute. @Nick, yes to include CQL examples, and to give them first, but I would also keep the rpc call for now. As the RPC interface is still officially supported. @Yang, Happy to re-arrange things once we have some content. For better or

Re: wiki updates

2011-10-06 Thread Yi Yang
Thanks Aaron for the hard work. The new front page gives a much clear image on Cassandra. However I would also like to present some of my thoughts - based on my own learning path: 1) The first part should present a clear image on what Cassandra is, and what's inside Cassandra - thus we'd better

Re: wiki updates

2011-10-06 Thread Nick Telford
This is a really good idea. On first pass, I wonder if we should move the link to the Thrift API docs out of the "Application Developers" block; CQL is the primary interface now isn't it? Following on from that, whenever pages include examples of read/write queries (e.g. http://wiki.apache.org/ca

wiki updates

2011-10-06 Thread aaron morton
With 1.0 almost here I was going to try and spruce up the wiki a bit to make things a little more welcoming for new users. I've created a copy of the home page here http://wiki.apache.org/cassandra/FrontPage_draft_aaron as a working draft. I've re-aranged things a little, and added some links