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Steve Grunwell
Liquid Web
Steve Grunwell is a Senior Software Engineer at Liquid Web. Specializing in WordPress and application development, he has worked with brands and organizations including Microsoft, TED, Xylem, Elmer’s, and Experience Columbus.
Steve has released numerous plugins in the WordPress.org repositories, including one from the grounds of The White House during the first annual National Day of Civic Hacking in 2013. When he’s not writing software, he enjoys hiking, music, and writing about writing software on his blog.
Steve holds a B.A. in Telecommunications from Bowling Green State University where he graduated Cum Laude with minors in General Business and Recording Technologies.
More information, including portfolio work and his development blog, can be found at https://stevegrunwell.com.
My Sessions
A Crash-Course in PHP Namespaces
Rivanna AWay back in 2009, PHP 5.3 was released to the world and with it brought support for PHP namespaces — a way of easily separating your code from other developers’ code, which has since become the de facto way of encapsulating functionality across the PHP ecosystem. With namespaces, multiple packages could use the same class […]
Code Review: For Me and You
BallroomOn the surface, the idea of code review is a no-brainer: why wouldn’t we want a second set of eyes on our code, especially before deploying to production? As we peel back the layers, however, we find that the topic of code review is much more nuanced. How detailed should the review be? Who is […]