New Process!

[Schenk Studios]

Just logged into the Developer's Portal and found a really slick new feature that Apple has added to make our lives easier. See attached pict.

[yourofl10]

Cool! (sadly i'm not a dev tho :( :mad:

[WellSpentYouth]

Just logged into the Developer's Portal and found a really slick new feature that Apple has added to make our lives easier. See attached pict.
I am sorry, but I don't get the new feature! What is it?

[Schenk Studios]

It's essentially a wizard for getting all the certificates and profiles that are required to deploy your app to your iDevice. The old process was confusing (very easy to miss a step) and long winded, while this new one is very succinct! You have to be a paying Developer to log into the Portal, so if you don't see this section that'd be the reason why.

[BulletDev]

That's great! The old method is really confusing.

PS: This is BarringtonSoftware, but arn kindly changed my username to BulletDev! Thanks again :)

[wastedyuthe]

This is great news to me. I have watched a podcast episode from Hot Cocoa on how confusing this was, and have heard the same thing elsewhere too. I have the SDK and am learning atm, but I haven't signed up to the developer program yet, and I was rather nervous about getting to this particular hurdle.
It's nice to know there is something to help you through it now.
Thanks for posting about it!

[cxx]

Sadly, the new feature doesn't really make it that much easier; just walks you through it a little bit better.

And it was launched mid-January.

[lazypeon]

I'll have to try this. I was making fun of Apple after going through this tedious process by hand because their stuff is supposed to just "work" :)

[Mindfield]

Holy crap, it's about damn time. The old provisioning method was a serious pain in the bum. This should make the beta process a whole lot easier.