The Hot Iron is now running the latest release of ExpressionEngine, 1.6. The upgrade was straightforward a model for Web-based packaged applications.

Of course thorough testing continues, and please let me know if you find anything out of the ordinary, or different from what you would expect from this little blog.

And no, I don't run WordPress. Nothing against the world's most widely used blog engine, but I came upon EE and liked it a lot!

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For those who do not use a feed reader or would prefer not to, I have deployed the ability to get The Hot Iron in your inbox. Simply enter your email address in the box labeled “Subscribe by Email” on the right sidebar of any page of the blog and you will initiate the process. Once you are subscribed, you will receive an email at the end of the day with any writings I have done that day, if I have written that day.

This new feature is powered by Feedburner, the service that also manages my blog feeds for those who do use a feed reader. Please let me know if you have any questions or issues with it or if you simply like it or not!

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I never use the term "under construction" in Web site copy because a Web site truly is always under construction. The same can be said for my blog. Today I have made some small changes which will hopefully make it easier to navigate the site, and may have more in the future.

If you happened to use the autodiscovery feature of the browser to subscribe to the site, could I trouble you to unsubscribe and resubscribe? I ask this as I have changed the feed link to using Feedburner rather than the native link for the feed. This way I can better track readership. If you subscribed by clicking on the icon on the Web page itself under the heading of "Subscribe to the Feed," that has not changed and you don't need to resubscribe.

What is autodiscovery? In the address bar of your browser, to the far right may be the orange icon for a blog/RSS feed. By clicking on it, it will "autodiscover" the link for the feed then subscribe you to the feed in whatever designated feed reader you have selected. This has been a feature in Firefox and is new to IE.

Now that The Hot Iron has been live for four months, I am learning great deal from my own use as well as feedback from readers like you – thank you! And please keep it coming.

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I have chosen the beginning of the new year to launch my personal blog. As a small business owner/entrepreneur and Internet consultant, I plan to use this forum to comment on the state of the business world that I am in. As well, the category of "diversions" will be to comment on other observations I make on events and activities around me, many of which will relate in some way to business or technology.

This is the culmination of an idea I have had for a while. I bought the domain name thehotiron.com a while back, and am glad to see it come alive! As you can infer by the name, it relates to the term "strike while the iron is hot" and I hope to live up to it.

Function over Form

If you are reading this at thehotiron.com, then you may notice it is not the most dynamic of design, and this is for a reason. I decided to go live with a functioning site, complete with minimal branding and the RSS feed link, using the default template from the software that powers the blog, ExpressionEngine, with a few slight modifications. In time, it will look prettier while not distracting from its function.

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This is from The Hot Iron, a journal on business and technology by Mike Maddaloni.

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This is my first post to The Hot Iron, my personal blog.

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This is from The Hot Iron, a journal on business and technology by Mike Maddaloni.

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