Jim Graham's blog

Titus Brown has a very funny spoof about how scientists will probably react to the NSF's moves towards data management plans. Go read it, I'll wait. After detailing all manner of horrible data, licensing and source code management techniques, he closes with

Jamie and I had lunch last week with Greg Wilson, who has done yeoman's work getting students to use software productivity in research. Along those lines, I thought I might be able to offer up a some advice on how to make your life easier as a student in a scientific field.

So this is the post where I consider the outside, long-shot, limit as x goes to infinity possibility that I may have made a mistake in a previous post.

Waffle-y enough for you?

Here at Scimatic, we follow both Greg Wilson and Cameron Neylon on Twitter, so it was cool to see the two of them talking about the directions of Open Science in a semi-public forum. The tweet that caught my eye was

Okay, bad attempt at a literary allusion.

But it's a question that we've been talking about around here, and to a lesser extent with some of the folks we know: where are the scientific programmers?