As I mentioned earlier, I followed along Evan Doll's 6 minute demo of the slider and the controller object. Naturally I wanted to deploy this useless app to my iPhone so I could show it to all my geek friends at bar. (While the gorgeous models looked over our shoulders waiting to get our phone numbers) When I bumped into a new error. "CodeSign error: a valid provisioning profile is required for product type 'Application' in SDK 'Device - iPhone OS 2.2.1" -Thus begins my next learning adventure. I quickly learned that you may not deploy an app to your iPhone without first registering with the Apple's iPhone Developers community. This cost $100.00 and is really quite reasonable. I am not against any of that. But that would mean I would have to wait to be accepted and then go through the whole provisioning process etc. By then the models would have moved on to the next bar and my friends and I would be out of luck. I wanted it now! So I did a little digging around and it turns out that entire provisioning cert process is handled by 2 files.
a) /Developer/Platforms/iPhoneOS.platform/Info.plist
b) info.plist in your app folder.
A little more blog surfing and I came across a blog that appeared to have figured it all out.
That blog was on http://sanchit-tricks.blogspot.com/ which appears to have stolen the hard work of Vinod Ponmanadiyil who in my opinion deserved the bulk of the credit. Following Vinod's instructions and downloading the amazingly useful apps he recommends, I was able to install my killer slider app on my own iphone without a provisioning profile.
Also: if you are looking for some good xCode or Objective-C Videos at a really good price ($5.00) - Check out Mike Clark (I took my Ruby on Rails Class from Mike Clark and Dave Thomas) at pragmatic.tv
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