Looks awesome Josh! I'll definitely go through it in the coming days. - Gabriel
On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 2:01 AM, Josh Wills <[email protected]> wrote: > Closing the loop on this; I just published my holiday project, a new Crunch > user guide: > > http://crunch.apache.org/user-guide.html > > Feedback (and fixes!) gratefully received. > > J > > > On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 7:30 PM, Som Satpathy <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Thanks Josh! >> >> >> On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 3:48 PM, Josh Wills <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> Hey Som, >>> >>> Thanks for the great feedback; I am also an admirer of Cascading's user >>> guide and feel that having one for Crunch would be a great addition. My >>> reason for not writing one yet is largely selfish, i.e., I write and talk a >>> lot as part of my day job, and working on Crunch is how I relax. >>> >>> That said, the holiday season is upon us in the US, and so I have some >>> downtime to devote to writing docs. If anyone has any good brain hacks for >>> forcing oneself into writing, I would be grateful. :) >>> >>> Best, >>> Josh >>> >>> >>> >>> On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 11:14 AM, Som Satpathy <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>>> >>>> Hi Josh/all, >>>> >>>> It's been a couple of months since my team started using Crunch for our >>>> mapreduce. It has been a great tool, simplifying may problems and >>>> increasing >>>> productivity. I personally found it quicker to pick up than cascading, >>>> which >>>> I think has a steeper learning curve. My main sources of learning crunch so >>>> far have been the javadocs, crunch user-list, crunch source code, >>>> crunch-examples and some online articles explaining how crunch works. One >>>> place where I found crunch lagging is the need for a user guide or how-to >>>> documentations, something on the lines of cascading user-guides, which I >>>> would say has been really useful for its user-base. Is such a user-guide >>>> coming up soon? That will be of great help for the crunch user community. >>>> >>>> Thanks, >>>> Som >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Director of Data Science >>> Cloudera >>> Twitter: @josh_wills >> >> > > > > -- > Director of Data Science > Cloudera > Twitter: @josh_wills
