Certificates, provisioning, and signing oh my!

Long gone are the good 'ol days of Palm OS development. You could quickly build an application and hotsync it to your device. Even better, you could quickly and easily use the Palm debugger to shoot a copy of the application and run it remotely.

The iPhone developer's life is riddled with hours upon hours of hassling with certificates, provisioning files, code signing, and ad-hoc distibution profiles. I've lost hours of my life here. The good news is that this work will only get easier for developers in the coming months as Apple improves the process. My pain will be forgotten.