last year's bio: Born in New Zealand (a "Kiwi"), Piers has been involved in the SAP community for longer the he would wish to remember. In more recent times he has fallen in love with the Open Source community, and its original ideals, becoming an enthusiastic user of Linux, perl, Apache, MySQL, and Jabber, to name but a few.

This has prompted him to make some contributions -

• SAP::Rfc
• SAP::BC::XMLRFC (with Help from DJ Adams)
• Jabber::JAX::Component / Client [1]

Currently he is most interested in:

• the developments of Jabber (a Technical Reviewer for the O'Reilly published book "Programming Jabber")
• Inlining [2] anything that is not bolted to the floor

[1] http://search.cpan.org/search?author=piers
[2] http://inline.perl.org