nDreams - A Day in the Life of Me I recently was asked to write a blog post about my job at nDreams, where I'm currently a Senior Programmer.I was asked to not go too deep into the nitty gritty and
Add Custom Map Templates to Unreal Engine 4 Often on a project it's handy to have a "template level" which you can use to start building new maps from.Unreal already comes with a few template levels for you to pick
How To Download APK From Phone Using ADB This was something I wanted to figure out recently, as I don't want to be relying on (dodgy?) third-party sites to grab APKs when researching.Here is how you fetch an APK off
Somnai: Immersive Theatre Security Vulnerability Immersive Theatre Meets TechnologyI love immersive theatre and I work in VR Game Development. So when an immersive theatre production using VR arrived in London, I had to go check it out!Somnai
Featured in 100 Rising Stars of the UK Games Industry I'm a rising star!https://www.gamesindustry.biz/top100/2018/i-k (Mirror #1)I was asked a few questions via email, but somebody also appears to have spied on my Twitter and LinkedIn,
Hello World! Again! Previously I've been using Jekyll for my blog (see https://blog.jamie.holdings/2016/10/15/hello-jekyll/) - however I was finding the publishing and maintenance (oh what, the bundle dependencies have changed
California 2017 Last December we went to Los Angeles for a few weeks to escape the freezing cold temperatures of the United Kingdom!We checked out the local sights, and popped into all the local
When Should I Ride Pirates of the Caribbean? I have long had an obsession with data. Just the idea of having to collect vast amounts of data to plot a graph gets me jumping with excitment. Using data I can potentially
New York 2017 I recently went to New York for the week!I had the pleasure of experiencing the phenomenal Sleep No More and also VoidVR's GhostBusters VR experience.During our stay, we also experienced a
Featured in 'The Importance of Lighting in Creating Immersive VR' Paper I was recently asked to give my thoughts on lighting in VR, AR, and how I see the overall VR and AR markets developing over the next few years. This paper was compiled
Hello World Hello Jekyll! I've migrated this site from Hubpress to Jekyll, and it's just wonderful! I now have much more control over how the site looks and behaves, and it's all static and hosted
Sharing Time and Timezone with Docker Containers This is a common issue where a Docker container doesn't share the timezone and time of it's host. Usually operating systems will default to UTC (or something) and you don't want to be
Installing a new trusted SSL root certificate on Android It's very trivial to install a user-trusted certificate on android. Under Settings -> Security you can install new trusted certificates. However, this creates a permanent "Your network could be monitored" warning in
Fixing Open GApps on Nexus 4 Cyanogenmod 13 I installed a fresh copy of Cyanogenmod 13 on my Nexus 4, and attempted to install Open GApps.However, I was repeatedly presented with the errors: "SetupWizard has stopped working" and "Google Play
Unreal Engine 4 - Create Console Commands in Blueprint! I've set up a very simple plugin for Unreal Engine 4 for creating console commands in Blueprint. https://github.com/cubehouse/BPCmds This allows you to very quickly create console commands for your
Disqus Email Exposure Vulnerability - July 2013 Little vulnerability I found on Disqus a while back when adding a new moderator to a site. This is fairly basic, but is a really good example of how a simple thing can
PlayStation Home Character Encoding for PlayStation Symbols I have zero idea if this is useful. These symbols render as PlayStation icons using the character set in PlayStation Home (useful for menus etc.) left: ╓ right: ╔ up: ╕ down: ╒ cross: ║ circle: ═ square: ╟ triangle:
Password Hashing - How to make it not suck. A basic guide. From https://xkcd.com/538/When you register for websites or online services, you have to set a password to enable yourself to login again in the future. Your username and password needs
WordPress How To: Default images to link to the file My own website seems to handle this just fine, maybe it's because I actually explore the options inside WordPress and it defaults to what I like. However, when running a website for a
WordPress How To: Disable the Admin Bar in WordPress 3.1 This may be helpful to those WordPress developers who want to keep their site as it was without the new admin bar arriving with WordPress 3.1 soon. Simply use this code in
Loricum - The Video Game Free Download The project is finally over, after a number of "post-release" issues, we've now got the full version (that is the full version - version 2) online for free.If you haven't been following
Creating Dynamic Userbars in PHP A number of sites I've worked on have dynamic Userbars available for elements around the site. These are really useful for creating dynamic counters/countdowns etc.To make it easier for myself so
Loricum - The Video Game What is Loricum? Loricum is a point and click adventure game created entirely by a group of young people aged between 13-18 years old. I'm very proud to have been the leading mentor
Authenticating XMPP Ejabberd with WordPress through XML-RPC I was recently installing Ejabberd and wanted to integrate it with a Wordpress installation. I'm pretty nifty at hacking about with Wordpress, so thought I'd challenge myself to do it as neatly as
Banksy vs Bristol Museum Pictures In 2009 Banksy took over Bristol Museum. I was fortunate enough to live a few streets away at the time, and while most days queues would literally stop me getting into university, one