There are a few pitfalls that new users of MATLAB almost always fall into, depending on their applications. I thought it might be nice to summarize a few of them here,... read more >>

There are some cases, particularly simulations, in which we need to choose a few items from a finite list. A friend mentioned to me that he was doing a Monte Carlo... read more >>

Did you know that you can customize the direction of text in MATLAB plots? There are times when such annotations work better than if they were purely horizontal or... read more >>

I just had an interesting exchange with a customer. He was trying to have an anonymous function return multiple outputs. Contents ... read more >>

I'm pleased to introduce Ned Gulley as this week's guest blogger. Ned is a software developer with an amateur's interest in astronomy. He was motivated by a recent discussion... read more >>

We use color as a dimension to understand the world. For some datasets, judicious choice of colormaps provides a useful means for gleaning information. ... read more >>

A while ago, I wrote an article sharing some ideas for Programming for Multiple Datatypes. Recently, a colleague asked me a related question for writing some M-code to be used in an... read more >>