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GuideGuide Post Mortem: What I Learned About Code Signing
I’ll start this post off by saying that I do not consider myself a skilled developer. I’m a front-end designer that is stubborn enough to know when things are fixable and believe that I’m skilled enough to fix them. Some times I’m wrong. This weekend the vast majority of CS5 and 6 GuideGuide users opened GuideGuide to find a blank panel. When they went to tried to reinstall GuideGuide they were met with an error telling them they could not install GuideGuide because it did not contain a valid signature. Trying to install any old version would do the same. So what happened? My code signing certificate expired. When you publish an extension for Photoshop (or bundle most kinds of code) you go through a process called code signing. The short explanation is that doing so provides GuideGuide’s users with with the confidence that 1. I’m a real human being …
