Singleton Pattern in JavaScript A simple singleton pattern for JavaScript classes. class Instances = {}; class MyClass { static get() { if (Instances[this.name] === undefined) { Instances[this.name] = new this(); } return Instances[this.name]; } }Call ```MyClass.get()``` to get a
Unreal Engine 4 - Custom Log Categories Don't use LogTemp for everything! It is trivial to setup a new log category in C++. First, in a header in your project add a line like so: DECLARE_LOG_CATEGORY_EXTERN(LogMyAwesomeGame,
Unreal Engine 4 - Object & Actor Iterators How to iterate over Actors and other UObjects in Unreal Engine 4. Note: You should be careful using this regularly! You do not want to be iterating over every single object in your
Unreal Engine 4 - Change Folder Colours In Version Control In Unreal Engine 4 you can change the colour of your Content folder directories to make it easy to identify parts of your project. However, by default, this is only stored locally, and
2019 - Last Year's Resolution Last year my resolution was to complete something every month. I liked the sound of this resolution because I have a heap of random projects I wanted to get done, and hopefully this
nDreams in the Opening Titles of BBC South News The other week I had to walk up and down the office for 20 minutes so the BBC could get a shot of our studio for the opening titles of the local news.
Weekend Project 2012 - Pokemon Clone I found this old project kicking about, and as best I can tell it is from 2012. I remember building this over a weekend when trying to learn how HTML canvases worked. This
Debug Shipping Builds In Unreal Engine 4.23 Recently I've upgraded a personal project to Unreal 4.23 and found that we had a crash in Shipping-only! So I needed to figure out how to debug this. The error I was
Taking Screenshots In-Game In Unreal Engine 4.23 This is a simple method to take screenshots in-game using Unreal Engine 4.23. Execute this code somewhere in your project and it will generate a PNG screenshot at the same resolution your
I Got Married! I am now husband to my amazing wife. I can't want to continue exploring the world and life together with her forever.
Reverse Engineering AES Keys From Unreal Engine 4 Projects This post is designed for Windows builds of Unreal Engine 4 titles made with 4.21. This will likely work with previous versions, and maybe even future versions of the engine. Your mileage
Lego Roller Coaster Build I recently took a day off work to put this thing together. When I was a kid, I had a plastic model set of a Pirate Ship flat ride. I loved this thing.
Advanced Certificate Bypassing in Android with Frida Last year I published a blog post about bypassing certificate pinning using a tool called Objection. https://blog.jamie.holdings/2018/09/05/bypass-certificate-pinning-on-android/ Since then I have encountered Android research opportunities with
Want to make games? Make games A few months ago I gave a talk at Solent University in Southampton about getting a job in the Games Industry. While I was writing my presentation, I found I was re-treading a
Bypass Certificate Pinning on Android Update: This blog post has gotten a lot more attention than anything else I have written, so I have also written up an advanced guide for more complex SSL pinning bypass techniques: https:
NodeJS Recursive mkdir with Promises This is a simple example using Promises in a reduce call to execute mkdir commands in sequence. I'm using the util.promisify utility to automatically convert the standard fs functions into Promises. Because
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