If you are unfamiliar with the concept of “dogfooding”, see here.
It makes a big difference in the start of a project to have a ready use case, and thanks to my own personal use of PBooks, I just added a terrific new feature. Well, I think its terrific. 
The feature is similar to the matching process, which is used to match transactions to additional accounts. For example, if you have a CSV file containing credit card transactions, in bookkeeping terms, those only represent half the journal entry. You can import those transactions into the ledger, and the matching page will show ledger transactions without a corresponding entry.
On the flip side, the posting page will display only the journal entries which need to have entries posted to the ledger.
If your more of a business process user as opposed to a accounting / bookkeeping user, this might not sound too exciting, but I think its pretty cool. I was able to implement this feature fairly easily thanks to the relatively new journal entry status field, which is a tiny int so it shouldn’t have too much of an increase on the database size.
Also, in my personal use of pbooks, I’ve ironed out several bugs which were hiding from general view. Since most of the bookkeeping work I’m doing is prior, I haven’t worked too much with the new business process models, but I will next week when my company sends out invoices, as well as whenever we receive a payment and / or make a deposit.
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