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 >>

Much of the data on the Internet is stored in some flavor of XML. Fortunately for us, MATLAB has some built in functions for handling XML file. This will be the first in a series of non-consecutive... 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 >>

Ken’s been kind enough to point out in the comments on how to switch between open files in the MATLAB Editor. The keyboard shortcut

Ctrl+Page Up to move from right to left on the… read more >>

I received some criticism regarding my post about using shell command because it wasn’t very Desktop-y. The way I see it, the MATLAB Environment includes a broader picture of everything going… 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 >>

I’ve written before about accessing Java from the Command Line, but you can also make calls into other systems from MATLAB. For example, you can access libraries written in C/C++ or Fortran,… read more >>

This week I’d like to once again welcome back guest blogger Chris Kollett to tell you about one of the new features of the MATLAB R2010a Help Browser.
When I wrote about some of the new Help… read more >>

I’m thinking of turning posts about our underutilized features into a reoccurring series. What do you think of “Hidden Gems” or “Desktop Tricks & Tips” or “11… read more >>