Good Blogs on Hadoop

http://blog.guident.com/2013/02/import-noaa-data-into-apache-hbase/

http://souravgulati.webs.com/apps/forums/show/14108248-bigdata-learnings-hadoop-hbase-hive-and-other-bigdata-technologies-

http://www.coreservlets.com/hadoop-tutorial/

http://kickstarthadoop.blogspot.com/2011/09/joins-with-plain-map-reduce.html

http://kickstarthadoop.blogspot.in/2011/05/hadoop-for-dependent-data-splits-using.html


http://www.slideshare.net/cloudera/top-ten-tips-tricks-for-hadoop-success-r9

http://pkghosh.wordpress.com/2012/05/06/hive-plays-well-with-json/


http://snehalatastechnotes.wordpress.com/2013/02/07/complex-data-types-in-hive/

Also here are few links:

http://hadooptutorial.wikispaces.com/Custom+partitioner  ( very good link)

http://developer.yahoo.com/hadoop/tutorial/module5.html#partitioning

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/18356037/understanding-custom-partitioner-in-hadoop   ( good discussion try reading it)

http://anilmeesala.wordpress.com/2013/05/19/in-this-post-i-will-show-how-to/   ( see how it is written with a different logic : partitioner)

http://wiki.apache.org/hadoop/HadoopMapReduce

THIS IS A LINK FOR PIG:  ( we will be doing something similar you can read this after I will tell you about PIG)

http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/mirek/classes/2011-F-CS6240/Slides/Lecture5.pdf

http://www.rohitmenon.com/index.php/cloudera-certified-hadoop-developer-ccd-410/