Dogfooding: Art of Practicing What You Preach
The DNN core team and other visible members of the community often use the term “dogfooding,” which basically means to practice what you preach. In other words, dotnetnuke.com is usually upgraded to the latest DNN version just before the public release of that version, sending signals of pride and confidence to the community and its many stakeholders.
Albeit on a much smaller scale, I feel dogfooding is just as important for seablick.com as it is for the mother ship. But believe it or not, at one point or another I have considered other web application frameworks besides DNN to run this site. With a blog at its core, I was drawn to “pure” blogging engines such as Community Server, SubText and even WordPress. However, after a few quick-and-dirty test installations and a discussion with Vasilis I realized that good old DNN was the way to go. Hell, this is what we do day in and day out ... we eat, breath and even sleep DNN! This is not to say that the above mentioned apps are inferior - not at all. In fact I’ve grown quite fond of SubText, but more on that in the near future. What it does mean is that we as DNN evangelists have an almost duty to practice what we preach.
Have I choked on DNN? Is dogfooding overrated?
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