eating your own dogfood

from The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (8 July 2008)

eating one's own dogfood
dogfood
dogfooding
eating your own dogfood

   <programming> When a developer uses their own code for their
   own daily needs.  Being a user as well as a developer creates
   the user empathy that is the hallmark of good software.

   The term seems to have originated at {Microsoft}.

   (http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2004/04/16.html)

   (2006-12-12)