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Things continue to be busy, but I'm doing my best to make time for this site and my various projects. At long last I FINALLY installed Disqus to manage comments for the blog and software posts

Best of all, after a few frustratingly productive hours of hacking the Disqus API, I managed to import all my Sitefinity comments into Disqus! This was actually a fun project, but man was it a pain in the ass trying to hack that poorly-documented, unfriendly API.

I have every intention of publishing my work, most likely as a module in the Sitefinity Marketplace...

At long last I finally found time to publish the latest version of the Sitefinity Toolkit, as of now version 1.1 with support for Sitefinity 3.7 SP1 through SP3 (it will not work with any other versions than these) on both the Standard and Community versions.

See the main page for the Sitefinity Toolkit for the download links and changelog, as the latest information for the toolkit will always be posted there.

Although I've tried to be thorough on this release, I honestly haven't had the time to test it as much as I'd like, so if you encounter ...

As part of the process of preparing the Sitefinity Toolkit 1.1 update for release later this weekend, I needed to upgrade my sites to the latest Sitefinity SP3 update.

For those of you who've done this, you know it's MOSTLY a simple process, but can get tricky when copying the /Sitefinity folder files, because, like me, many of you probably customize or modify these files to meet your needs. Sitefinity addresses a lot of this by supporting external templates, but sometimes it's easier to just edit the files directly.

However, this becomes a problem with every SP release because these ...