New Adventure

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On Monday I start a new job at Fanatics. It's a great company with awesome people in an amazing industry.  

It was bittersweet to leave eBay, especially working on (in my opinion) the best team in the company. I'm still extremely excited about what they are working on. I'll share what we were working on once it has launched.

I started at eBay thinking I'd only work there for a couple of years and move on to something else.  6+ years later, and I couldn't be happier with my experience at eBay.  I got to work on some huge backend systems, iOS and Android apps with millions of users, and countless proof of concepts.  More importantly, I met some extremely talented people and made a lot of friends.

PHP Library for Telemetry App

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This weekend I had a project that required me to create a live dashboard. I found Telemetry (http://telemetryapp.com) and it looked perfect for what I needed. You simply submit new data for the dashboard via their API. They have clients for Mac, Windows, Mobile and Web to view the dashboard. Unfortunately they only had a Ruby Gem to interact with their API. I had a requirement that it needed to be in PHP, so I was on my own.

Over the course of the weekend I built a fully-functional library for Telemetry in PHP and it supports all of their different data flows. I put it up on GitHub so others could use it.

Telemetry GitHub Repository