Time To Eat Dogfood

If you're familiar with the idea of the "dogfood test", the title will make sense. If not it probably sounds a bit weird.

In software, the dogfood test is "does the developer use his own tools and/or products?" If a maker of dogfood thinks their product really is healthy, they'll be quite happy to eat it themselves. If not, you're entitled to ask "so what's wrong with it?" Similarly, you should expect a software house to use its own tools.

Which is a pain right now, because I need to convert all the text so far. I've got this neat GUI tool to do that (and spent way to long writing it) but what I really want to do is fire up vi and hand edit the XML.

The thing about that is ... you can always tell when a developer doesn't use his own tools. If you use a program, you tend to find and fix the problems as they occur. Eventually it gets to be more than just functional. It gets to be smooth. If you don't use it, then you tend to leave the rough edges in place.

So, if I want other people to use SceneEdit, I guess I better use it myself.

I expect there are dog food manufacturers who don't much care for the taste of dog food, come to think of it.