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, 193,195 Reputation)
• Nicholas-Westby @ GitHub (641 Contributions in 2016)
• Nicholas Westby @ Umbraco Forums (1,216 Posts)
• Knickerbocker @ Umbraco Issue Tracker (138 Issues Reported)
• Nicholas Westby @ StackOverflow (Just Getting Started)
• 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
• Umbrazure: Limitless Websites with Umbraco on Azure
• Building Umbraco Websites with Archetype Widgets and Ditto
• Managing Your JavaScript Library in ASP.NET
• StringBuilderPlus Improves Upon StringBuilder

Videos

I have started making YouTube videos (using Camtasia) for instructional purposes. As I complete more, I’ll put them here.

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
• pi-ka-chu.com