I'm sure many people have seen this but for those of you who didn't make it to VMworld (me included), there are 23 (as of right now) VMworld videos available on YouTube. Thanks to Eric Sloof for getting these uploaded.

Check out the VMworld 2014 Keynotes & Sessions Playlist.

It all starts with a text message from my wife...

Of course, all of the DS iOS apps fail to connect to the device. This has happened before. I figured I'll just open up the browser when I get to my Mac and restart the services. Then I get this screen.

My first thought was WTF? Took a screencap and put it out on twitter thinking Synology installed some encryption service on my device through some automatic update. Then the swarms of "oh no..." tweets come replying back. Apparently, I must have been hiding under a rock. And I was. For the past two weeks I've been heads down doing some front-end web development training. I literally saw nothing over the prior week about SynoLocker.

Don't know what SynoLocker is? It's a form of malware/ransomware based on a different strain of the Cryptolocker ransomware. Once you are infected, all of your files are overwritten with an encryption algorithm that can only be decrypted with a key held by the person that created the strain. Essentially, your files are gone unless you pay the person a certain amount for the decryption key. SynoLocker ransomware scans the internet for port 5000 and 5001 and will return a Synology ACK. This means you have to have the management port of 5000 & 5001 exposed on the internet. Once discovered, the ransomware plants itself through an exploit and begins encrypting your files. The files targeted are <100mb because the larger the file, the longer the encryption process takes. Their target were smaller files such as documents and photos.

The folks over at VMTurbo are giving away 3 pairs of tickets to VMworld Europe. 1 winners will be drawn every Friday starting 8/22. VMworld Europe will be held in Barcelona, so enter for your chance to win!

My good buddy, Chris Wahl over at the http://wahlnetwork.com/, conducted a series of interviews at Indy VMUG. We chatted about careers, where my focus is heading, and a little about my latest twitter profile photo.

I'm going through some front-end web development training and the first few courses have been over CSS. We're all pretty accustom to manipulating CSS to do what we want to do, but have you ever started out with a blank slate and created your own CSS back-end without a template? I certainly haven't up until this point.

To utilize these new CSS skills, I figured I would update the homepage of JumpSquares.net to look like a nice fancy modern web page. When I was going through all of this, I realized I was using static containers instead of fluid containers with Twitter Bootstrap so I had to make a bunch of changes inside of JumpSquares. The latest version uses fluid containers, so we can actually cram more jumpsquares into a single screen by using every edge of space. At the same time, I fixed some minor issues in window and row spacing for twitter bootstrap. Therefore, the latest version of JumpSquares (Project Homepage) is now at 1.3.1

Indianapolis VMUG (@IndyVMUG) is back in season again and it will be bigger than ever this year. If you've never been, it's one of the largest VMUG gatherings in the nation with a few thousand attendees. (register and see the schedule)

This year, there will be a dedicated User Content Track with a lightening talk format where all presentations are limited to 15 minutes. This is NOT in the Official VMUG Schedule so you will have to find it once you get there. If you have never been to a conference with <30min sessions, you are going to love it. With one hour sessions, people tend to start veering off into iDevice land around the 20 minute mark. These 15 minute sessions will allow you to get more out of the conference with lots of great information crammed in. This is being sponosored by the #vBrownBag folks so there will be NOTHING VENDOR RELATED!!!

I will present two lightening talks:

1. 11:00am - Riding The Next Wave: Docker Containers
2. 11:30am - Riding The Next Wave: Cloud Foundry

I am tentatively scheduled for an afternoon track unless all the slots are consumed and other people want to present other topics.

1. 2:30pm - Riding The Next Wave: Docker Containers
2. 2:45pm - Riding The Next Wave: Cloud Foundry

Yesterday I had some fun getting Vagrant + boot2docker working on my mac with VMware Fusion. It really wasn't all that hard but some people have had some issues so I'll document my steps. I chose to use VMware Fusion instead of VirtualBox for Vagrant because I don't need 2 products that essentially do the same thing. At the same time, Fusion has reported better consistency with experience and performance time and time again.

1. Install Vagrant

• Go to the Vagrant Website downloads and install the vagrant package. That should have been relatively simple

2. Create a Vagrant directory

• I created a Vagrant directory under my Documents folder. /Users/kcoleman/Documents/Vagrant
• You will use this directory to place vagrant files

Back again with another update. Day two started off strong. It was tough to choose, but I opted to do Getting Started with Go and Continuous Delivery. There were definitely some other cool tutorials I wish I could have done such as Zero to Cloud with @NetflixOSS.

A cool free e-book to download OSCON 2014 speaker interviews

Eagerly awaiting another year of open source wonders, the Opensource.com community caught up with a handful of notable OSCON speakers to gather behind-the-scenes stories about their passions for open source. This book collects the interviews we conducted.

On to becoming a Gopher.

Steve Francia of MongoDB talked about his origin and how he began using Go and his baby is Hugo -> http://hugo.spf13.com/. The slides and tutorial are all online and you can do everything at your own pace. This was an awesome session and Steve did a fantastic job explaining *why* we need Go, the problems it solves, and how to build our first application. If you do follow along with these slides, it could take you anywhere from 2-8 hours to do it. It's 250 slides and it was ALOT to take in. Everyone works at a different pace. Me, I was SLOWWWWW. I had GoClipse installed. I spent the first 15 minutes trying to get Go working correctly there. One of the guys from Google came over and said, never use Eclipse. So I jumped over to Sublime and worked furiously to catch up. First lesson learned. I'm going to supplement this with the Go tutorial on pluralsight.