Revert back to longs for date in the query builder

JAVA-313 #fixes
Don't try to reconnect to nodes that are ignored by the load balancing policy

JAVA-314 #fixes
[maven-release-plugin] prepare release 1.0.7
[maven-release-plugin] prepare for next development iteration
Update READMEs
Fix reconnection attempts to dead hosts

JAVA-325 #fixes
Merge branch '1.0' of https://github.com/datastax/java-driver into 1.0
Test for JAVA-333
[maven-release-plugin] prepare release 1.0.8
[maven-release-plugin] prepare for next development iteration
Update READMEs
cancel timeout before invoking callback.onException
Merge pull request #227 from minimarcel/1.0

cancel timeout before invoking callback.onException
Handle race between query timeout and completion (JAVA-449, JAVA-460, JAVA-471).