Awhile ago I wrote some (I think) cool stuff for pig that allowed for parsing apache logs. Unfortunately I wrote my stuff on an old branch. Didn’t really know it was an old branch and that everything I wrote would need to get ported, but there you go. Recently, someone ported my stuff (which was awesome!), and folks at cloudera are blogging about it.
Years ago, I wrote this (I thought) cool stuff, Data::Fallback, which would allow you to pull data from various sources. I don’t think anyone in the world ever used it. Like ever. In fact I discovered memcached and I quit using it. Kind of cool that folks might actually use some stuff I wrote.
Earl