Mike on the MATLAB Desktop

February 21st, 2011

I recently answered a question for a customer about dealing with out of memory errors in MATLAB. Thankfully it didn’t require me to spend a lot of effort to answer it. We already have a well-written, comprehensive answer to that question. That’s Tech Note 1106, the “Memory Management Guide.” These technical notes cover a wide variety of topics from MATLAB programming and memory management, installation, compilers, graphics, common mathematical operations, to common Simulink tasks.

The Technical Notes were a mainstay of resources that I used when I was in technical support. But I realize that most of you probably never have heard of them; they’re included in the list of Documentation links on our support page, but they are not included with the installed documentation.

Have a look, you may learn something new about MATLAB! They’ll make great beach reading this President’s Day!

By Michael Katz

Mike is a developer on the MATLAB Mobile team. When not describing himself in the third person, biking, homebrewing, or rooting for the home team, he's busy trying to make the world a better place for programming.

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4 Responses to “Using Tech Notes For Fun and Profit”

1. Brett Shoelson replied on February 21st, 2011 at 14:46 UTC :
   

   Thanks, Mike. I use (and refer customers to) Tech Notes frequently–but I had not seen that one. It will come in handy!
   Brett

2. Jaidev replied on February 22nd, 2011 at 05:51 UTC :
   

   Thanks Mike, the technical notes are quite a one-stop solution to most programming bugs..

3. Aurélien replied on February 22nd, 2011 at 08:43 UTC :
   

   Hi!!

   I always use Tech Notes as much as possible which gives examples to avoid eval command or OOM issues …

   And as I mentioned in my blog ( 22-Oct-2010 ) : http://blog.developpez.com/matlab4geek/c2693/best-of-des-commandes-matlab-utiles/faire-un-joli-rapport-de-stage-avec-matlab/
   the Technical Note 1106 could be grabbed with the GRABCODE matlab function. But it is not the case anymore :

   
   grabcode('http://www.mathworks.com/support/tech-notes/1100/1106.html')
   

   now fails … snif

   Aurélien

4. José Ramón Menzinger replied on February 24th, 2011 at 14:43 UTC :
   

   Maybe it’s not the right place to give feedback about this, but I saw that there is no graphic on this Tech Note:
   http://www.mathworks.com/support/tech-notes/1100/1106.html#4

   It seems like it’s linked to a local GIF image:

   Best regards.

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