A simple date formatting/parsing library that (by default) normalizes all formatted dates to UTC, and assumes all date strings are indicated in UTC. Its intended use is to offer a simple API useful for representing/consuming dates within lexicographically-sensitive database systems (e.g. couchdb, AWS SimpleDB, etc).
Hydra is a simple, highly redundant pull-based messaging system. It uses CouchDb as its message store, and replication to deliver messages. It can be used by any language capable of making HTTP calls, and C# and Java client implementations are included.