At Network Magic we use the term 'dogfooding' to refer to the act of running our own software in early pre-release form on our home computers. It's a term that we inherited from a previous life at Microsoft.

Generally speaking, a "dogfood build" has been lightly tested and is hot off the press of the nightly build machine. They contain many bugs, but usually the latest and greatest features.

They're somewhat edible, but not fit for broad human consumption :)

It's a requirement of working at Network Magic to eat your own dogfood!