Reworked build system: Now, dependencies (cassandra, thrift, etc) are pulled automatically and set up.
Probably needs further testing.

again.

values into the data store. Also shows the achieved message rate. Still
pretty dirty and naive.

Currently, this is only a proof of concept for using the Thrift API
provided by Cassandra a bit from C++. Let's hope to evolve this into
what we're aiming for, soon.

Conflicts:
	FileSpewer/FileSpewer.cpp

Trying to resolve some issues with Eclipse include parser.

memory allocation for the send buffer (currently it is malloc'ed every
iteration) and the message format (client Id, message topic, payload
format) should be discussed for our future work.

Added some more Eclipse config files. Will need discussion whether they
actually belong into the repository.

Added Eclipse project files and settings.