added a new parseBoolean method and ScalaDocs
added a new feature to search forward/backward through a topic
Merge branch 'master' into develop

* master:
  added a new feature to search forward/backward through a topic
  added a new parseBoolean method and ScalaDocs
renamed variable to correspond to its actual value
disabled the overwriting of the main configuration file
Merge branch 'develop' into scala_2.11

* develop:
  disabled the overwriting of the main configuration file
  renamed variable to correspond to its actual value
  added a new feature to search forward/backward through a topic
  added a new parseBoolean method and ScalaDocs