CodeSigning Articles on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

The right and wrong ways to run apps without dock icons

by TJ Luoma (Mar 13th, 2011)

I recently downloaded an app that I wanted to run without a dock icon. There wasn't a preference to run that way, but I remembered that there was a way to edit a file within each app's "bundle" (.app "files" are actually folders or packages). Sure enough, a little time on Google brought me to ...

SDK devsugar: Re-signing applications

by Erica Sadun (Feb 9th, 2010)

TUAW's devsugar series helps introduce developers to tools and tricks that they might not yet be familiar with. Today's tip centers on signing already-compiled and already-signed applications with a new custom signature. A while back, I posted about a way to sign already-compiled applications ...

Dev Corner: Signing iPhone apps for informal distribution

by Erica Sadun (Jun 24th, 2009)

At times, iPhone developers might like to test out applications without going through the formality (or challenges) of ad hoc distribution. Ad hoc distribution was introduced by Apple to allow software testing on up to 100 registered devices. It is, admittedly, a bit of a pain. Developers must ...

Rogue Amoeba on code signing, iPhone SDK

by Brett Terpstra (Mar 11th, 2008)

Mike Ash at Rogue Amoeba has published his fairly extensive thoughts on Apple's code signing policies and plans, as well as how they relate to the iPhone SDK. He makes some solid points and elaborates on thoughts that are being bandied about elsewhere on the 'net. In his critique of some points in ...

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