Nicholas Westby is a lead full stack developer at Rhythm Agency and is the creator of the Umbraco form builder, Formulate. He’s built around a dozen Umbraco websites, including brands such as IGT, Jacuzzi, Celestron, BrandingBusiness, and AllCare Health among others.
Welcome back to Happy Porch Radio, season 2.
In this episode I speak to Nicholas Westby, an experienced Umbraco developer who works with a company called Rhythm Agency, in California.
Nicholas shares his story and that of Rhythm Agency.
Amongst many other topics we talk about the Umbraco form builder package he created – Formulate – and how the agency supported him in the development of this open source project.
It is really fascinating to learn about both his interaction with the wider Umbraco/open source community and the interaction of the Agency as a whole.
Listen to the episode below
Tune in to this week’s episode to find out:
- The slightly offbeat story of how Rhythm Agency got its start.
- A handful of case studies where Nicholas built sites using Umbraco.
- A little hint to anyone looking to undertake a massive Umbraco related project.
- How Nicholas turned his frustrations into a super useful Umbraco package.
- The story of Nicholas working weekends AND office hours on his passion / side project.
- How Nicholas mustered up the momentum to get a viable package up and running years earlier than he expected.
- A quick rundown of how to use Formulate (it’s simple to use, it only takes a minute to explain).
- Nicholas’ motivation for spending so much time and energy thinking about Umbraco (it’s not because of the easy content entry).
- Tricky question to ponder on: How many Umbraco sites do you have to work on to be considered an Umbraco developer?
Mentioned in the episode:
- Nicholas Westby
- Formulate
- Rhythm Agency
- Code101.net
- IGT
- Jacuzzi
- Celestron
- BrandingBusiness
- AllCare Health
- Umbraco.tv
- WordPress
- Drupal
- Accuride.com
- SunriseGrowers.com
- SundanceSpas.com
- FirstHealth.org
- SCAN Health Plan
- Irvine Company
- Umbraco Zietgeist: Effective Umbraco Development in 2016
- Why Motivating People Doesn’t Work… and What Does by Susan Fowler