nelstrom

I'm pretty impressed with SendOwl. I like the flat monthly fee and generous bandwidth allowance. So far, I've not done a great volume of sales, but my customers have already remarked on how quickly the 0.8GB video file downloaded. So the core functionality seems sound. I'm looking forward to using their affiliates feature to help market my future products.

The feedback I got from Meetup.com was that:

> the lack of content in your description looked suspicious. Generally speaking, we are known for reaching out to Meetup Groups when the content posted in the group description is unclear. In your case, the content may have been very sparse, but your motive was super clear: "Fans of Vim, the text editor". It's a shame that one of the most clearly defined Meetup Groups ended up setting off an alarm.

The fact that I mentioned Practical Vim had nothing to do with our account being closed down.

By the way, meetup didn't turn down our original request to set up the group. The Vim London group had been established for about 10 days before it was closed down, and we had around 50 members.

I'm the author. Practical Vim is currently available as a beta book - containing 17 out of 20 chapters. I'll publish a new chapter every two weeks until it's complete.

Incidentally, the rubyblock text-object uses matchit under the hood.

Matchit.vim is great too, but you have to position your cursor on one of the block delimiting keywords (e.g. class, module, def, if, do or end) to make `v%` do what you want. The nice thing about text-objects is that the target area where you can trigger them to achieve the desired effect is much larger.

Do you have trouble cleaning up with your text editor? Does it cut through the toughest grease, grime and syntax errors? Are you burning your hands on too many hotkeys?

Try Vim - Extra whitening classic scourer. Vim gets the job done faster. Take short easy strokes for lemon fresh scripts. Fast. Bold. Vim.

You'll get me with drew at the domain name. Sorry that's not more obvious.

Of course - and you're not the only one asking. The latest episode on modal editing ("the newbie killer") is a step back to basics. However, I don't intend to cover the material that you can find in the vimtutor.

Vimcasts.org runs on Radiant CMS, which has page caching enabled by default. My problem was too many app instances spinning up. I've limited the PassengerMaxPoolSize and PassengerMaxInstancesPerApp both to 2, which seems to have fixed it.

I appreciate this burst of traffic to help me get to the bottom of this.

I gave the server a kick, so it should be back up now. Thanks for your patience.