added HOpTimer implementation for metrics (https://github.com/codahale/metrics)
Merge pull request #578 from hector-client/SliceFilter

Add functionality to filter query results
Document the format of the hosts parameter in CassandraHostConfigurator
Document the format of the comparator type alias in ColumnFamilyDefinition
issue-581 -- Support a maximum connect time on a connection
Merge pull request #580 from akaIDIOT/documentation-fix

Document string-formatted arguments
Merge pull request #582 from alcanzar/issue-581

issue-581 -- Support a maximum connect time on a connection
fixing last commit's test failures
Class to instill 'iterable' interface to ColumnFamilyResult.
Merge pull request #587 from ctcttest/master

ColumnFamilyResultIterator class to implement 'normal' iterable onto ColumnFamilyResult.
Merge pull request #586 from dmdevito/testfailures

fixing last commit's test failures
provide a way to cut idle connection (to reopen it) before the firewall, so that the connection we get is always ops
Formatting nit-pick
typo in README
Update guava to 14.0

Add ByteBufferSerializer to DEFAULT_SERIALIZER_TO_COMPARATOR_MAPPING

This is needed because AbstractComposite.serializerForComparator
throws NullPointerException if comparator doesn't exist in mapping
Merge pull request #588 from dmdevito/fixingfirewallconnectioncut

provide a way to cut idle connection (to reopen it) before the firewall,...
Merge pull request #589 from jerrinot/master

typo in README fixed
Merge pull request #591 from lauvinen/guava_update

Update guava to 14.0
merging with base
up the metrics version to current (2.2.0) and added junit test of HConnectionManager with MetricsRegistry