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 worse I used the Hive wiki as guide https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/Hive/Home . Creating new content takes time, first I'd like to improve what we have and make sure it is correct. Thanks ----------------- Aaron Morton Freelance Cassandra Developer @aaronmorton http://www.thelastpickle.com On 7/10/2011, at 1:24 AM, Yi Yang wrote: > 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 include the Data Model section in > it - people will easily get to know what's the difference between Cassandra > and other key based databases like HBase, MangoDB etc., therefore make wise > choices. > > 2) The second part could give a glance at how to make Cassandra running on a > small to moderate level application - aka the a small development platform. > Including how to create a cluster and also running on Windows / Amazon > EC2. Here StorageConfiguration is not so important because the target of > this section is to help users build up a usable Cassandra Cluster. > > 3) The third part can help the administrators of large scale application, > and also introducing management strategies like storage configuration and > also other monitoring, node operations techniques. > > The rest parts are perfect. I hope we can match the list with a typical > users' learning experience, so that for users at different level they can > focus on their own section. It's just my own idea - and it might different > from others' experiences, hopefully it could help. Thanks again for the > great work. > > Best, > Yi > > On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 7:29 PM, aaron morton <aa...@thelastpickle.com>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 draft. >> >> I've re-aranged things a little, and added some links to pages that do not >> yet exist. I was going to use it as a planning tool by working through all >> the pages linked there to see if they needed updated examples, or were yet >> to be written, that sort of thing. >> >> Thoughts ? >> >> I'll probably ask for some volunteers on the user list. >> >> Cheers >> >> ----------------- >> Aaron Morton >> Freelance Cassandra Developer >> @aaronmorton >> http://www.thelastpickle.com >> >>
