Introduction In this part of the series, I'll ilustrate the problem to test Unreal Engine classes and one approach to write the tests. As you will probably realise, when doing unit tests a lot of problems related to how your dependencies are organised will crop up. This is one of the greatest benefits of the … Continue reading Unit Tests in Unreal – pt 3 – Making Your Unreal Game Code Testable

Introduction The idea of this part is to discuss how to integrate Google Tests with Unreal Engine. For this posts, I've used Unreal Engine 4.21.0. You can register at Epic website and they will give you access to their GitHub repo (https://github.com/EpicGames/UnrealEngine). You will need the Engine Source code, because of the dependencies on the … Continue reading Unit Tests in Unreal – pt 2 – Integrating Google Test with Unreal Engine

Introduction In this series of posts, I'll discuss some ideas about how to unit test your game code if your game uses Unreal Engine. In my recent experience in games industry, I noticed that there's a lot of misunderstandings about what unit test is and how to write unit tests. Mostly I believe, comes from … Continue reading Unit Tests in Unreal – pt 1 – A definition of Unit Tests for this series

Introduction Unreal Engine is one of the most popular game engines. A lot of popular games has been built using this engine. Unfortunately "engine" is a very ill-defined term in the industry and can mean different things for different engines and people. Is it a library? Is it a editor? Is it a toolset? Perhaps … Continue reading Understanding Unreal Build Tool

Introduction The idea of this post is to discuss what is necessary to compile C++ code. There's a lot of issues that can crop up during compilation time and it is very hard to understand what is going on if you don't understand how C++ compilation works. This also is useful to understand how different … Continue reading Compiling C++ Code

Introduction The goal of this post is to analyse the key differences between linking libraries in .NET and C++. The idea is to explore what are the pitfalls when planning how to structure your components in a reusable way. The focus is on the C++ side. The .NET aspects here will be more to demonstrate … Continue reading Linking Libraries in C++

Introduction In the part 1 of this series, I described the basics around SSL. In part 2 how to create self-signed certificates. In part 3, I described how to run your own certificate authority (CA). Now, we will cover the real use case which is getting a real certificate for your server. What is the … Continue reading SSL – part 4 – Getting a Real SSL Certificate

Introduction In the part 1 of this series, I described the basics around SSL. In part 2 how to create self-signed certificates. Now, the idea is how to "run" your certificate authority (CA). I will use Windows Server 2016 for this example. Again, there are probably open source options or other stacks that you could … Continue reading SSL – part 3 – How to run your own Certificate Authority

Introduction In the first part, a lot of basic concepts of certificates where explored like the differences between private and public keys and the overall mechanic of SSL. In this part, the idea is to explain how a self-signed certificate works and the drawbacks. To explore this example I'll be using IIS (Internet Information Services). … Continue reading SSL – part 2 – Self-Signed Certificates