I have added another open source project to my list – a JSON SerDe for Hive. You can check it out here:

http://code.google.com/p/hive-json-serde/

This SerDe (serializer/deserializer) will let you read JSON files as input for Hive tables. In the future, it will also support writing JSON data, but that is for another day.

Please let me know if you have any comments or questions about it.

Google have taken a step in the right direction by offering people a monetary reward when they find a bug in Chromium. I am very excited by this news, not because I am likely to find a bug and cash in, but because it shows Google is starting to take some accountability.

Step 2 would be public bug trackers for ALL of their systems, particularly the online ones such as Gmail, Docs, Sites, etc.

Step 3 would be Googlers actually paying attention to them, maybe even hiring a customer support team.

Fingers crossed!