An expression describing the act of a company using its own products for day-to-day operations.

Investopedia Says... A company that eats its own dog food sends the message that it considers its own products the best on the market.

This slang was popularized during the dotcom craze when some companies did not use their own products and thus could "not even eat their own dog food". An example would've been a software company that created operating systems but used its competitor's software on its corporate computers.

I've been working on bashblogger during my spare time for almost a year. During that time, I'd been hosting this site with webpress. While it's true that the bashblogger website is powered by bashblogger, I felt like I wasn't putting my money where my mouth is by not running grimthing.com with bashblogger as well.

The truth of the matter is that it just wasn't ready for primetime. That's about to change.

Grimthing.com is now running on the unreleased, (and un-polished), 0.3.5 version of bashblogger. I've upgraded the RSS feed from 1.0 to 2.0 so that I can support podcasting, changed the entry bits to support metadata so that if the master.db gets corrupted it won't be catastrophic, included rough draft support and user-specified replace.

I have some usability issues to address and some code cleanup to do, but I'm close to releasing 0.3.5, and I think it's good enough to run my site, so maybe I'm getting somewhere with this.

Not that I haven't run this into the ground enough, but this entry is the first post using bashblogger for grimthing.com.

Update

I've been having some problems with the wordpress->bashblogger migration. I'd written an importRSS script that takes a Wordpress 1.5 RSS 2.0 feed as input and generates a bashblogger site, of course, I'd written the script for 0.3.4.x series and the format change in 0.3.5 sorta borked that.

I haven't gotten the multiple category subroutine ironed out, and there were a couple of gotchas with the archive generation, (mostly just differences between the 0.3.4.x format and the 0.3.5 format). The archives have been fixed and a bug in the archivestory() function, (due to the switch from 0.3.4.x to 0.3.5, as well), has also been fixed.

I've said all this in order to apologize for the duplicate entries in the RSS feed. All migrations have problems, this one was no exception.

Posted by Philip McClure in Computing Woes Rants on May 23, 2005