As most of our readers know, MATLAB Central‘s Newreader application allows you to easily read and post from the comp.soft-sys.matlab Usenet newsgroup. About 100 questions are posted to the… read more >>

I’m pleased to announce that going forward we’re going to be doing things a little differently here at Mike on The MATLAB Desktop. My first big announcement is that I’ve joined the… read more >>

Over the past few releases we have been working to eliminate code in the desktop that duplicates or approximates the logic in the MATLAB language. The goal of this project is to reduce bugs and to… read more >>

MATLAB files that are a part of the public API of MATLAB all have nice help comments in them. The files we ship with MATLAB follow a standard format: function line, summary/description line (commonly… read more >>

This week I’d like to introduce guest poster Leslie Mehrez from our marketing team. She’s going to tell you about an exciting new frontier for MATLAB and scientific computation.
Today is… read more >>

Well it’s almost Spring 2010, and that means another installment of MATLAB: MATLAB R2010a (version 7.10) is here! You’ll find the full release notes here. You can also find a video of the… read more >>

Like I did in 2009, I’m making some New Year’s resolutions for 2010. Once again I hope to have a productive year. We have some really useful stuff planned for R2010a and R2010b and… read more >>

Now that 2009 is almost at a close, I thought I’d share my retrospective. Based on the number of comments and hits to our web pages, the most popular topics this year were platform issues and… read more >>

Following up with my previous post about using Java objects in MATLAB, this week I’m going to discuss the memory issues that can crop up.
When a Java object is created in the MATLAB workspace,… read more >>

R2009a (version 7.8) is here! These releases sure do come quickly.  Below, I’ve called out some of my favorite new and updated Desktop features.
Be sure to let us know what you think of these… read more >>