Doug’s Easter Egg, limited time only

It took me a lot of work, but I managed to sneak an easter egg into MATLAB 2008a. It helps to know people who approve the final build that owe you a favor (we are even now, William!) No one has found it yet, and it only works today- April 1st 2008. Here it is in action:

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7 Responses to “Doug’s Easter Egg, limited time only”

Sarah Zaranek replied on April 1st, 2008 at 2:59 pm :

nice work there.
wonder how many people will protest wanting their free t-shirt :)

Doug replied on April 1st, 2008 at 3:14 pm :

I sent an e-mail out to Tech Support to warn them about the calls they would get. Several of them complained that they could not get the Easter Egg to work on their machines… Odd!

Doug

Daniel Sutoyo replied on April 1st, 2008 at 4:32 pm :

awesome! this is just great.

Quan replied on April 1st, 2008 at 8:21 pm :

sweet deal.

on another note, do you always wear a tie to work? or is that picture of you an aberration?

Steve Eddins replied on April 2nd, 2008 at 7:48 am :

Quan—Doug always wears a tie to work. We’ve been trying to get him to wear a different one occasionally, but no such luck.

Yi Cao replied on April 2nd, 2008 at 12:15 pm :

I just noticed this. Now, it is 2nd April. Is it an April Fool’s day joke?

Doug replied on April 2nd, 2008 at 12:36 pm :

Everyone

Only people that found this yesterday on their install got free t-shirts. Thanks to everyone that qualified, we mailed t-shirts out to all of you today.

Sorry everyone else, this Easter Egg and t-shirt offer only was good for one day!

Doug

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Doug Hull is an Application Engineer at The MathWorks. A MATLAB user since 1994, he gets paid to live, eat, and breathe MATLAB! This blog is dedicated to promoting the File Exchange by highlighting files and original video content.

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