This is a quick note about handling errors and warnings in MATLAB. In particular, the function error has a couple of aspects that people sometimes trip over or overlook. ... read more >>

When developing applications is MATLAB, I often find myself interacting with files, sometimes data, sometimes algorithms. In order to be sure I am operating with the correct... read more >>

I recently wrote an article on Beginner Woes, and I thought I would add some more gotcha topics today. Contents ... read more >>

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 >>

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 >>

The way MATLAB displays numbers sometimes confuses users. Occasionally someone posts a concern to the MATLAB newsgroup that the calculation just performed was done to only 4 digits but... read more >>

I just posted a blog on logical operator behavior in MATLAB and I want to be clear about the bottom line. Use the newer MATLAB operators || and &&, in the context of expressions for if and... read more >>

There are occasional posts on the MATLAB newsgroup, such as this one, where people ask how to control when they see various warnings. One reason people might want this is to control... read more >>

Today I want to talk a bit about the function isfield and some of the history of its implementation. isfield has been built into MATLAB for a few releases now. We felt it was important... read more >>

There are frequent posts on the MATLAB newsgroup as well as lots of questions posed to Technical Support about the floating point accuracy of MATLAB. Many people think they ... read more >>