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Three talks this month as we get ready for September's Lightning talks. We were originally going to talk about Mojolicious but we're going to push that out to October.

CALL FOR SPEAKERS: If you have experience with Mojolicious/Mojo we'd like you to present in October.

SECOND CALL FOR SPEAKERS: If you would like to give a 5 minute talk on your favourite module/framework/languages or anything of interest to the tech community at large, we want you. This is a great opportunity to give a short talk if you haven't done it before. You don't have to be an expert, just enthusiastic.

This month we have three speakers:

Olaf Alders: Mocking Web Services with Test::LWP::UserAgent -- Mocking a 3rd party web service isn't just for authors of API wrappers. It's also for consumers of them. In this talk I'll cover why you would want to mock a web service, how you can do it and why authors of API wrappers should allow you to supply your own UserAgent object.

Dave Doyle: Intro to Apache Thrift -- Thrift is a project that the Apache Foundation took over from a donation by Facebook. Thrift is a interface definition language and binary communication library that can generate servers and clients for a multitude of languages. We do a quick exploration of Thrift and how it can be used to provide an consume services without having to write clients for every language/protocol.

Doug Hoyte: "Native" GUIs with perl and HTML -- Github has a project called electron which is a cross-platform GUI toolkit that is used to build, among other things, the atom editor. This talk introduces my Valence module which is a bridge between perl and electron, and you'll see how easy it is to build great looking desktop applications using your existing HTML/Javascript/CSS skills.