About

I’m a software engineer with 20+ years of experience. Here are a few of my online profiles, which cover most of my career:

• AspDotNetDev @ CodeProject (10 years, 4 Articles, 25 Tips/Tricks, 984 Answers, 16,314 Messages)
  • Aside: CodeProject was taken offline in 2026.
• Nicholas-Westby @ GitHub
• Nicholas Westby @ Umbraco Forums (2,054 Posts)
• Knickerbocker @ Umbraco Issue Tracker (138 Issues Reported)
  • Aside: This is now offline.
• Nicholas Westby @ StackOverflow (14 questions, 18 answers)
• Nicholas Westby @ YouTube (See Videos Below)

Articles

Here are a few of the many articles I’ve written:

• Umbraco Zeitgeist: Effective Umbraco Development in 2016
• A Guided Tour of Umbraco Formulate, 2016 Edition
• Bulletproof Interface Deserialization in Json.NET
• Building Umbraco Websites with Archetype Widgets and Ditto
• Incorporating a Movie Database - Building Flicksee Part 1

Videos

This 7-minute video is a discussion of my experience building the Flicksee movie app:

This 2.5-minute video shows how to install Umbraco with IIS in 7 steps.

This 1.5-minute video explains the Umbraco form builder I created, Formulate.

Podcasts

• Happy Porch Radio, Season 2, Episode 7: Building Open Source Packages in Umbraco with Nicholas Westby

For Fun

Here are a few websites I’ve made recreationally:

• puzzle.mu
• suss.me
• ironicalanis.com