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Making Pretty Graphs
Today I’d like to introduce a guest blogger, Jiro Doke (email: Jiro.Doke@mathworks.com), who is an applications engineer...
18 years ago
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Useful Debugging Commands and Tips
In my personal history using computers, I have learned to embrace debuggers to help me understand what's going on in my...
18 years ago
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uniquely MATLAB
What makes MATLAB unique? You have your choice regarding which element unique returns when there are repeated...
18 years ago
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What Version is Being Used?
Sometimes it's important to have code work in multiple releases of MATLAB, while still taking advantage of new...
18 years ago
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Defensive GUI Programming
Today I want to talk a little bit about defensive programming for GUIs (graphical user interfaces) and other programs...
18 years ago
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How to Safely Try Unknown Code
In my recent post on MExceptions, a user asked if a syntax error inside a function being called in a try/catch...
18 years ago
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Exceptional Behavior
One of the new features of MATLAB in R2007b is a more robust way to manage and reporting errors. We have found...
18 years ago
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Tire Rotation
If only rotating tires were really this easy! After graduate school, I drove east for my post-doc at Woods...
18 years ago
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A Way to Account for Missing Data
MATLAB has the concept of Not-a-Number, also known as NaN for quite some time. Following the IEEE 754 Standard for Binary...
18 years ago
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parfor the Course
Starting with release R2007b, there are multiple ways to take advantage of newer hardware in MATLAB. In MATLAB alone, you...
18 years ago
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Numbered Argument Specification for Print Functions
Since MATLAB Release R2007a, you've been able to number the arguments for functions that format strings. With this...
18 years ago
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Controlling Multithreading
With Release R2007b, you now have the ability to set (and get) the maximum number of allowed threads. What...
18 years ago
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R2007b is Live
Release R2007b is now available. Here's what's new in MATLAB. I plan to highlight some of these features, and...
18 years ago
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for Versus while
A reader suggested I discuss the difference in use of MATLAB's for and while constructs. ...
18 years ago
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Reversal of a sort
We can sometimes be motivated to reverse things in Boston. And I occasionally get asked how to reverse the...
18 years ago
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Iterating over Non-Numeric Values
Recently a colleague was hoping to write some code to iterate over fields in a structure. There are at least...
18 years ago
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A Way to Create Reusable Tools
There are a lot of ways to create reusable tools and widgets in lots of programming languages, including MATLAB. Today...
18 years ago
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Monitoring Progress of a Calculation
Users sometimes want to monitor the progress of some calculation or simulation. Here's a recent example from...
18 years ago
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Assignment with Repeated Indices
I have had customers ask me occasionally about what happens during an indexed assignment when indices are...
18 years ago
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GOTO Humor
GOTO Humor For those of you who wonder why MATLAB does not have a goto statement, you might look at this cartoon in...
18 years ago
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Make Code N-D Safe
I've recently been asked some questions about programming safely to account for N-dimensional data. ...
18 years ago
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sum Things to Consider
I was just helping someone debug a piece of code that was giving an incorrect answer. The code returned an...
18 years ago
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MATLAB User Group in Boston
I know there are a large number of experienced MATLAB users who read this blog. If you happen to live in the...
18 years ago
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Indexing Terminology
Someone recently asked me to discuss X-Y versus row-column indexing. Contents ...
18 years ago
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MathWorks Aerospace and Defense Conference ’07
I'm attending the The MathWorks Aerospace and Defense Conference '07 in Manhattan Beach today and wanted to...
19 years ago
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Indexed Assignment
Recently some folks at The MathWorks wondered about the difference of behavior of variable creation versus...
19 years ago
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More Places to Meet The MathWorks
Here's a brief glimpse into some of the upcoming events where you can meet some of us (including me) from The MathWorks. I...
19 years ago
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Purpose of inv
I have received comments from several savvy customers suggesting that we remove the function inv from MATLAB. ...
19 years ago
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MATLAB Tour Legs 1,2, and 3
I've just returned home from three weeks in Europe on the MATLAB World Tour where I visited Italy, Spain, France, and...
19 years ago
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A Little Bit on Message Handling
This is a quick note about handling errors and warnings in MATLAB. In particular, the function error has a...
19 years ago