The following sample: http://www.datastax.com/dev/blog/whats-new-cassandra-07-secondary-indexes
No longer works with 0.8.0-rc1 I get "cannot parse as hex bytes" when doing the "Next we add some users: [default@demo] set users[bsanderson][full_name] = 'Brandon Sanderson';" section I can confirm that CASSANDRA-2497 does work