Is it a good idea to enroll in Apple Developer Program now

To join the individual developer program you first buy the entry from the Apple online store at store.apple.com (perhaps in your local country's store if you don't work out of or live in the USA.)

From there, you pay with whatever Apple ID you want since you can choose later to join with that or another Apple ID in the developer portal called iTunes Connect.

You have two sources of support while buying any paid developer account - the first is web and phone sales from http://store.apple.com - you can and should call them and explain your difficulties and they will help you with your purchase. If they can't resolve the issue they may refer you to AppleCare for AppleID issues and/or Apple Developer Support for specific issues on the developer program:

• iOS Developer Program: I misspelled my address, and now I cannot cancel my enrolment and try again
• https://developer.apple.com/contact/
• http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5622

As to what's happening, it's hard to guess - but if you don't have an AppleID that works to log into the online store - work that out first and make the purchase. Once you've spent money on the purchase, you will have a very narrow list of things to check/correct with the help of support if needed. If you can't get an Apple ID to work for the initial purchase, that too is pretty easy to sort with Apple's phone or online support. Worst case, ask a second question here with exact URL you are using and details on which URL you can't get logged in to.

You will need:

• a Mac running Xcode 7 (which is currently in beta and not finished yet)
• an iOS device running iOS 9 (which is also in beta and not released yet) or iOS 8
• an Apple ID to sign into both Xcode and the iOS device - this will generate the provisioning profiles needed for your code to run on your devices.

To get prepared for this, download the beta version of Xcode and follow one of the iOS session videos that show how to run one of the Apple-provided sample projects. You will then build and run that to your connected device as a target.

Eventually, the latest Xcode from the Mac App Store will have these features for anyone to use released versions of the tools on released iOS versions.